Shelby  County 

in  the 

World  War 


Illustrated 
1919 


The  Shelby  County   War  Historians 
Shelbyville,  Illinois 


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SHELBY  COUNTY 
m  the  WORLD  WAR 


By 
Shelby  County  War  Historians 

In  Collaboration  with 

Other  Military  and  Civil  Workers 
of  Shelby  County 


With  an  Introduction 

By  Honorable  Wm.  H.  Chew 

Chairman  of  the 
Local  Exemption  Board 


D.  Leslie  Davis,  Editor-in-Chief         L.  F.  Akenhead,  Art  Editor 
W.  E.  Reminder,  Business  Manager 


1919 


To  the 

Shelby  County  Mothers 

Who  with  Sacrifice  Sublime  and  Fortitude  Supreme  watched 
Their  Blue  Stars  Turn  to  Gold 


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"If  we  still  love  those  whom  we  lose,  can  we  altogether  lose 
those  whom  we  love?"  —  Thackery. 

"Thank  God,  we  cannot.  Of  those  who  went  out  with 
such  high  hopes  to  perish  in  the  trenches,  or  lie  buried  far 
away  in  a  nameless  grave,  it  is  a  mistake  to  say  they  never  re- 
turn. They  never  really  left;  their  bright  spirits  still  tenant 
the  hearts  of  those  who  loved  them.  They  lie  imperishably 
fair,  crowned  with  the  garland  of  immortal  youth."  —  Field 
Marshal  Lord  French. 


OUR  LEADERS 


Commander  in  Chief 
PRESIDENT  WOODROW  WILSON 

Secretary  of  State 
ROBERT  M.  LANSING 

Secretary  of  War 
NEWTON  C.  BAKER 

Secretary  of  the  Navy 
JOSEPHUS  DANIELS 

Chief  of  Staff 
PEYTON  C.  MARCH 

Commander  in  Chief,  A.  E.  F. 
GENERAL  JOHN  J.  PERSHING 

Governor  of  Illinois 
FRANK  O.  LOWDEN 

Adjutant  General 
FRANK  S.  DICKSON 

Commander  33d  Division 
GENERAL  GEO.  R.  BELL,  JR. 

Commander  130th  U.  S.  Infantry 
COLONEL  JOHN  V.  CLINNIN 

Commander  Company  H 
CAPTAIN  VANCE  COURTRIGHT 

Local  Exemption  Board 

WM.  H.  CHEW,  Chairman 

WM.  J.  EDDY,  Secretary 

F.  ROY  DOVE 


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INTRODUCTION 


SHELBY  County's  part  in  the  World's 
War  has  been  played  so  recently  and  that 
part  is  so  well  known  in  our  own  com- 
munity, that  the  records  of  that  service  need 
no  present  introduction.  It  is  the  future  gen- 
erations that  will  find  the  greatest  interest  in 
this  book.  With  the  passing  of  the  years  the 
splendid  efforts  of  the  editors  of  Shelby  County 
in  the  World  War  will  find  a  true  appreciation, 
for  in  peace  as  well  as  war,  distance  lends  en- 
chantment. 

The  task  undertaken  by  Mr.  Davis,  Mr. 
Rominger,  Mr.  Akenhead,  Mr.  Root  and  others, 
while  covering  but  a  fraction  of  the  whole  stu- 
pendous efforts  of  our  Government  and  people 
in  this  mighty  conflict  just  ended,  is  and  was 
an  enormous  one. 

When  we  remember  that  America  contrib- 
uted an  armed  force  in  army,  navy,  marine 
corps  and  other  branches  of  the  service,  num- 
bering four  million  eight  hundred  thousand 
men ; 

That  of  this  number  Illinois,  ranking  as  the 
third  state  in  the  Union,  furnished  six  and 
sixty-eight  hundreds  per  cent,  and  Shelby 
County  her  fair  proportionate  part ; 

That  America  sent  two  million  eighty-six 
thousand  men  overseas,  and  that  among  that 
number  were  included  approximately  eight 
hundred  of  the  best  boys  our  county  afforded  ; 

When  we  keep  in  mind  the  further  fact  that 
one  million  three  hundred  ninety  thousand 
American  boys  fought  in  France,  and  that 
Shelby's  contingent  answered  roll  call  prelim- 
inary to  going  over  the  top  there ; 

\Vhen  we  recall  that  American  troops 
fought  in  thirteen  battles,  participating  for 
nineteen  months  in  this  mighty  world's  con- 
flict, in  three  hundred  days  of  actual  fighting ; 

And  when  we  are  told  that  there  are  over 
fifty  thousand  American  battle  deaths,  two 
hundred  thirty-six  thousand  wounded,  fifty-six 
thousand  nine  hundred  ninety-one  deaths  from 
disease,  and  that  over  sixty  of  Shelby's  sons 
made  the  big  sacrifice,  in  addition  to  those  who 
were  wounded  and  maimed ; 

And  that  in  every  phase  of  every  activity 
our  own  home  boys  took  part,  we  can  appre- 


ciate the  labors  that  have  made  this  book  pos- 
sible. 

While  this  portion  of  the  part  that  Shelby 
County  took  in  the  World  War  is  the  most 
important  and  embraces  the  real  and  the  heroic 
sacrifice  and  service,  still  that  is  not  all. 
Mingled  with  the  over  twenty-three  billions 
of  money  that  this  war  cost  our  country  was 
a  portion  of  the  wealth  of  this  county. 

Not  alone  was  money  contributed,  but 
work  and  service  in  numberless  other  activities 
were  also  freely  and  fully  given.  So  the  home 
service,  in  all  its  varied  branches,  also  finds 
place  in  this  book. 

To  ferret  out  this  entire  record,  to  ascer- 
tain, collate  and  record  the  cold  facts  has  been 
a  tax  on  the  ingenuity,  the  capacity  and  the 
patriotism  of  the  editors  of  this  book.  Then  to 
illustrate  and  make  charming  its  pages  has 
brought  into  splendid  use  the  artistic  capacity, 
taste  and  training  of  our  home  artists,  Mr. 
Akenhead  and  Mr.  Root. 

In  its  pages  you  will  find  the  pulsations  of 
thousands  of  loyal  hearts  who  left  home  and 
fireside  and  loved  ones  at  their  country's  call. 
An  accurate  record  of  the  activities  of  these 
boys  is  given.  Back  of  the  boys  and  their 
homes  is  the  record  of  the  supporting  loyalty 
of  the  citizenship  of  the  county.  I  am  re- 
minded, however,  that  these  lines  are  written 
only  for  the  purpose  of  introducing  and  not 
reviewing  the  contents  of  these  pages. 

To  you,  my  dear  reader,  without  apology 
and  in  the  firm  belief  that  these  pages  merit 
your  careful  reading  for  your  own  as  well  as 
for  your  community's  good,  and  with  the  ex- 
pectation that  in  future  years  this  book  may 
become  in  a  manner  a  text-book  of  a  great 
crisis  in  our  home  affairs  and  the  history  of 
the  way  in  which  our  country  met  and  an- 
swered it,  I  present  Shelby  County  in  the 
World  War. 

Yours  truly, 


Shelbyville,  111.,  Dec.  1,  1919. 


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D.  LESLIE  DAVIS 
Editor-in-Chief 


LT.  W.  E.  ROMINGER 
Business  Manager 


LT.  L.  F.  AKENHEAD 
Art  Editor 


Foreword 

"Shelby  County  in  The  World  War"  is  designed  to  give  simply  but  ac- 
curately a  resume  of  the  work  performed  by  the  Civilian  army  within  Shelby 
County  and  by  her  valiant  sons  and  daughters  in  all  departments  of  the  mili- 
tary establishment  and  its  auxiliaries,  to  win  the  war  and  bring  lasting  peace 
to  the  world. 

Unlike  some  histories  of  the  war,  the  publishers  have  undertaken  to 
incorporate  in  this  volume  the  service  record  of  every  soldier,  sailor  or  marine 
whose  home  was  in  Shelby  County,  together  with  the  picture  of  each  where 
it  was  physically  possible  to  procure  it;  the  records  and  pictures  of  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  secretaries,  War  Camp  Community  workers,  nurses;  the  story  in  brief 
of  the  willing  and  important  service  rendered  within  the  county  through  the 
various  organizations  formed  for  service  "behind  the  lines,"  yet  no  less  essen- 
tial to  the  success  of  the  Allied  arms  than  that  performed  in  trench,  on  sea 
or  in  the  air — in  short,  a  detailed  military  history  of  the  county  during  the 
World  War,  including  the  activities  and  personnel  of  all  the  noble  men  and 
women  engaged  in  war  work. 

To  provide  this  sort  of  permanent  record  means  great  expenditure  of 
time  and  money,  and  extensive  research  and  compilations :  but  the  end  jus- 
tifies the  means,  for  no  other  book  can  fill  the  place  it  is  destined  to  occupy. 

If  there  are  omissions  in  the  completed  volume,  it  will  be  due  to  limita- 
tions over  which  the  editors  have  had  no  control,  and  will  represent  repeated 
but  unsuccessful  efforts  to  get  the  information  lacking.  If  errors  occur  they 
will  have  crept  in  after  all  possible  diligence  has  been  exerted  to  eliminate 
them.  No  discriminations  are  intended,  no  disparagement  of  one  for  the 
undue  aggrandizement  of  another.  In  the  magnificent  achievements  of  the 
men  and  women  of  Shelby  County  there  is  glory  enough  for  all,  and  it  is 
honestly  sought  to  make  a  clear,  authentic  record  of  it  all. 

THE  EDITORS. 


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SCENES  IN  SHELBYVILLE  DURING  PATRIOTIC  DEMONSTRATIONS 


SHELBY  COUNTY'S  INSTANT  RESPONSE 


Shelby  County's  response,  instant  and  un- 
reluctant,  to  the  clarion  call  to  save  the  world, 
was: 

Over  thirteen  hundred  soldiers. 

Fifty-six  sailors. 

Forty-two  marines. 

Eleven  physicians  and  surgeons. 

Three  doctors  of  dental  surgery. 

Three  doctors  of  veterinary  surgery. 

Nine  nurses. 

Six  Y.  M  C.  A.  secretaries  and  assistants. 

Three  war  camp  community  workers. 

Over  one  hundred  civil  service  workers. 

Thousands  of  patriotic  home  workers,  both 
men  and  women. 

Two  hundred  sixty  thousand  five  hundred 
fifty  dollars  for  the  First  Liberty  Loan. 

Five  hundred  eighty-five  thousand  five  hun- 
dred dollars  for  the  Second  Liberty  Loan. 

Seven  hundred  forty-eight  thousand  two 
hundred  dollars  for  the  Third  Liberty  Loan. 

One  million,  three  hundred  ninety-three 
thousand  four  hundred  fifty  dollars  for  the 
Fourth  Liberty  Loan. 

One  million,  one  hundred  seventy-three 
thousand  six  hundred  dollars  for  the  Victory 
Liberty  Loan. 

Nine  thousand  seven  hundred  dollars  for 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  drive  of  1917. 

Eighty  thousand  nine  hundred  thirty  dol- 
lars for  the  Red  Cross  war  fund. 

Six  thousand  nine  hundred  sixty-eight  dol- 
lars for  Red  Cross  memberships. 

Thirty-nine  thousand  seven  hundred  fifty- 
six  dollars  for  the  United  War  Work  drive. 

One  thousand  nine  hundred  eighty-two  dol- 
lars for  the  Salvation  Army  home  service. 

Two  thousand  dollars  for  the  Jewish  Wel- 
fare work. 

One  thousand  nine  hundred  nine  dollars 
for  Armenian-Syrian  relief. 

Twenty-five  thousand  dollars  worth  of  ar- 
ticles of  comfort  and  necessity  for  soldiers  in 


camps  and  trenches,  manufactured  and  donated 
through  the  American  Red  Cross. 

Shelby  County's  wealth  of  men.  women  and 
money  was  poured  unstintedly  on  the  altars 
of  the  country,  that  the  Beast  of  Berlin  might 
be  rendered  impotent  for  further  harm,  autoc- 
racy be  dethroned,  starving  peoples  of  war- 
ridden  lands  across  seas  be  fed,  peace  be  re- 
stored and  the  world  throughout  its  length  and 
breadth,  on  land  and  sea,  be  made  safe  for 
democracy. 

Early  in  the  war  that  swept  the  European 
nations  with  a  hail  of  hate  and  devastation 
and  the  tentacles  of  which  reached  out  toward 
America,  the  peace-loving  people  of  Shelby 
County  viewed  with  foreboding  the  gathering 
of  the  clouds  that  threatened  to  cast  their  grim 
shadow  above  our  own  fair  land ;  and  when 
overt  act  of  hostility  after  another  brought 
increasing  conviction  that  the  United  States 
must  go  to  arms  to  preserve  the  sanctity  of 
the  Nation  and  its  institutions,  menaced  by 
Prussian  aggression,  still  the  people  prayed 
that  "this  cup"  might  pass  from  them. 

But  when  on  the  memorable  6th  of  April, 
A.  D.  1917,  forbearance  having  reached  the 
snapping  point  and  to  have  hesitated  further 
would  have  branded  our  country  a  cringing 
coward,  even  in  the  eyes  of  its  own  people, 
President  Woodrow  Wilson's  war  message 
rang  out  as  a  call  to  arms,  this  county,  in  com- 
mon with  all  the  country,  responded  with  an 
immediateness  and  unanimity  that  upheld  its 
sacred  traditions  and  forever  established  its 
patriotism  and  magnanimity. 

Nor  was  the  fervor  of  its  rallying  dis- 
counted by  the  tears  that  were  shed  and  the 
anxious  fears  that  beset  the  hearts  of  those 
whose  men  were  called  to  the  colors.  Not- 
withstanding these,  the  response  came  with 
the  zeal  of  the  crusader — for  were  not  our  boys 
to  establish  a  new  order  of  civilization  upon 
the  face  of  the  earth? 


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Within  forty-eight  hours  after  the  Ameri- 
can dogs  of  war  were  unleashed,  Shelby  Coun- 
ty boys  had  offered  themselves  to  their  country 
and  the  world,  and  had  been  accepted  for  ser- 
vice. Aye,  even  before,  some  of  our  youths, 
impelled  by  their  holy  horror  of  Hun  rapacity 
and  their  sense  of  the  justice  of  the  cause  of 
the  Allies,  had  taken  their  stand  beneath  the 
unfurled  banners  of  other  countries. 

These  were  followed  by  other  enlistments. 
Shelby  County  boys  entered  the  army ;  Shelby 
boys  enlisted  in  the  navy;  Shelby  boys  enlisted 
in  the  marines,  and  long  before  the  United 
States  was  well  into  the  fray  our  county  was 
represented  in  every  branch  of  the  service. 

Quickly  the  government  at  Washington 
evolved  a  system  of  enlisting  men,  and  soon 
it  was  announced  that  the  Shelby  County  Ex- 
emption Board,  an  arm  of  the  war  department, 
had  been  established  here  in  the  persons  of 
Attorney  William  H.  Chew,  Dr.  W.  J.  Eddy 
and  Attorney  F.  R.  Dove. 

Drafted  from  the  citizenry  for  perhaps  the 
most  responsible  and  far-reaching  war  work 
to  be  done  in  the  county — for  on  their  official 
acts  hung  the  lives  of  the  youths  of  the  county 
— these  men  assumed  the  unaccustomed  duties 
of  their  solemn  office  and  before  long  had  the 
wheels  of  the  selective  service  machine  in 
motion. 

In  preparation  for  the  first  registration,  the 
regular  election  polling  places  for  the  most 
part  were  selected,  and  the  registrars  named. 
Prospective  registrants,  boys  and  men  from 
21  to  31  years,  were  coached  by  the  press, 
which  the  war  department  and  the  local  board 
provided  with  official  and  comprehensive  in- 
structions for  the  public. 

The  results  were  a  registration  of  2,185 
men,  the  number  exceeding  the  estimate  by 
several  hundred. 

Medical  men  were  enlisted  for  the  physical 
examinations  necessary  to  determine  the  fit- 
ness of  registrants  for  active  or  limited  ser- 
vice ;  lawyers  gave  freely  of  their  services  in 
assisting  the  men  with  their  questionnaires 
and  what  claims  for  exemption  were  made,  and' 
lay  people,  both  men  and  women,  gave  the 
local  board  and  the  registrants  such  aid  as  was 
required. 

This  co-ordination  of  work  characterized 
the  second  and  subsequent  registrations  and 
all  the  great  task  of  listing  the  potential  sol- 
diers, examining  them  physically,  sorting  them 
into  the  five  classes  provided  for  in  the  regu- 
lations, passing  upon  their  claims  for  exemp- 
tion, determining  the  order  in  which  they 
should  be  called  for  service,  choosing  the  per- 
sonnel of  the  various  contingents  and  getting 
them  under  way  for  camp,  school  or  canton- 
ment— a  monumental  task,  indeed. 


Shelby  County  needeth  not  to  be  ashamed 
when  her  military  roll  is  called,  for  eventually 
Shelby  County  soldiers  were  in  all  quarters 
of  the  war-ridden  globe — contributions  to  the 
man-power  of  the  United  States  in  the  regular 
army ;  in  the  former  National  Guard  units ; 
representatives  in  the  infantry,  the  field  artil- 
lery, the  tank  corps,  the  cavalry,  the  aviation 
corps ;  men  in  the  coast  artillery,  the  navy,  the 
marine  service ;  men  in  the  air,  on  terra  firma, 
on  the  seas  and  under  them ;  in  the  trenches, 
behind  them  and  in  No  Man's  Land ;  at  the 
listening  posts,  in  the  sharpshooters'  nests, 
with  the  engineers  laying  steel  highways  and 
constructing  bridges,  with  the  ambulance  corps 
and  ministering  to  the  wounded  and  dying  in 
the  hospitals. 

Shelby  County  sent  forth  "noncoms"  and 
commissioned  officers  —  corporals,  sergeants, 
lieutenants,  captains,  majors — and  had  more  in 
the  making,  with  the  completion  of  the  process 
well  in  sight  when  the  armistice  was  signed. 
Scarcely  any  branch  of  the  military  establish- 
ment was  without  the  men  of  Shelby  County 
— a  county  that  ever  has  justified  the  faith  that 
has  been  placed  in  it  in  times  of  military  stress. 

But  the  ambition  of  all  who  were  anxious 
to  follow  the  flag  literally  was  not  realized. 
Men  disqualified  by  physical  condition,  or  by 
too  few  or  too  many  years,  eagerly  joined 
the  great  civilian  army  that  "stayed  by  the 
stuff"  and  in  the  sphere  in  which  their  services 
could  be  used  demonstrated  their  love  of  coun- 
try and  of  mankind. 

Among  these  were  the  men  who  gave  them- 
selves to  the  work  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  some  of 
them  in  the  overseas  field,  to  clerical  work  in 
the  limited  service  and  to  other  positions  where 
their  patriotism  could  find  its  outlet  in  real 
helpfulness  in  winning  the  war. 

And  with  these  were  the  many  splendid 
women  who  with  a  consecration  no  less  actual 
and  impelling  than  that  which  prompted  the 
action  of  their  sons  and  brothers  and  sweet- 
hearts, threw  themselves  into  deeds  of  min- 
istry or  utility  with  a  self-forgetfulness  that 
at  once  established  the  fact  of  their  equality 
with  men  and  crowned  them  afresh  with  a 
glory  that  shall  live  for  all  time. 

To  some  few  of  them  it  was  given  to  serve 
more  spectacularly  but  with  no  greater  meed 
of  patriotism  than  their  sisters — to  enter  the 
wards  of  the  hospitals  and  soothe  the  wounds 
of  shattered  men  or  close  the  eyes  of  those 
whose  sacrifice  was  supreme ;  to  minister  with 
song  and  cheerful  companionship  to  the  home- 
sick, weary  hearts  in  camp  and  cantonment ; 
to  "man"  the  canteens  at  railroad  stations  and 
mobilization  camps,  dispensing  to  the  boys  the 
"cup  that  cheers  but  does  not  inebriate,"  as 


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well  as  the  more  substantial  viands  to  satisfy 
the  physical  hunger. 

The  greater  army  of  women  in  Shelby 
County,  however,  was  mobilized  under  the 
banner  of  the  American  Red  Cross,  a  large 
chapter  of  which,  with  many  branches,  was 
•established  early  in  the  campaign.  These  wo- 
men toiled  steadfastly  and  thankfully  day  by 
day  in  the  various  departments  of  activities, 
accomplishing  a  stupendous  amount  of  work 
without  which  the  whole  war  work  campaign 
would  have  failed  in  that  degree. 

Nor  to  be  forgotten  and  unmentioned  are 
the  other  women  of  Shelby  County  who  in 
common  with  their  sisters  of  the  world,  even 
among  the  enemy  nations,  placed  themselves 
without  their  wonted  circle  of  domestic  or  so- 


cial pursuits  and  bravely  took  upon  them  the 
unaccustomed  labors  of  field,  or  shop,  or  busi- 
ness, theretofore  quite  generally  borne  by  the 
men.  The  management  and  actual  labor  of 
the  farm  were  theirs ;  the  conduct  of  business 
enterprises  was  taken  on  by  them,  and  in  many 
other  lines  of  work  the  women  of  Shelby 
County  performed  with  an  efficiency  and 
bravery  unsuspected  while  they  were  in  the 
sheltered  care  of  their  men. 

In  ready  abnegation,  quick  response  to 
country's  call,  devotion  to  a  high  and  holy 
cause,  courage  under  fire,  gallantry  in  action 
and  esprit  de  corps,  Shelby's  boys  of  1917-18 
rank  high  with  those  of  1846-61-98;  and  in 
every  sense  in  which  it  can  be  made  to  apply, 
no  less  must  be  said  of  Shelby's  women. 


A  Patriot,  Indeed 


Xo  other  man  left  behind  him  so  many  "reasons 
for  exemption"  when  he  entered  the  service,  than 
Timothy  Milton  Kelly  of  Findlay.  Many  there  were 
who  with  much  less  ground  for  deferred  classifica- 
tion importuned  the  Local  Board  for  immunity  from 
military  service;  but  though  he  had  the  "reasons," 
Kelly,  like  a  true  patriot  and  sustaining  the  tradi- 
tions of  his  race,  asked  no  exemption  and  proved 
flimself  "spoilin'  for  a  fight." 

Timothy  M.  Kelly  is  the  father  of  seven  children, 
yet  he  enlisted  in  Chicago,  June  19,  1918,  and  was 
assigned  to  the  Engineers  Corps,  and  at  Camp  A.  A. 


Humphreys,  Va.,  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  ser- 
geant on  July  18.  1918.  He  was  disappointed  in  not 
seeing  overseas  service.  He  received  an  honorable 
discharge  at  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.,  Dec.  23,  1918. 

Kelly  is  a  carpenter,  and  the  son  of  G.  M.  and 
Sarah  Kelly  of  Findlay,  where  he  was  born  Dec.  6, 
1882.  On  the  3d  of  Sept.,  1903,  he  married  Ruth  B. 
Frazier,  a  daughter  of  James  H.  and  Sarah  Frazier 
of  Walshville,  formerly  of  Tower  Hill,  111.  The 
seven  children  born  to  them  are,  namely:  Elson 
Ward,  Ola  Almorine,  Walter  Kenal,  lone,  Paul  Tye, 
Ruth  Eleanore  and  Margery  Genese. 


— Courtesy  Shelbyrille  Democrat 


TWEXTY-FIVE  MEN  TO  JEFFERSON  BARRACKS,  MO.,  MAY  23.  1918 


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W.  J.  EDDY,  SEC. 


SHELBY  COUNTY  LOCAL  BOARD 
W.  H.  CHEW,  CHMN. 


F.  R.  DOVE 


SHELBY  COUNTY  EXEMPTION  BOARD 


With  the  stroke  of  midnight,  Monday,  March 
31,  1919,  the  Shelby  County  Exemption  Board  ceased 
to  exist  and  the  curtain  was  rung  down  on  the  ac- 
tivities of  that  body,  which  performed  a  service  that 
was  vital  and  far-reaching. 

The  board  in  Shelby  County  consisted  of  At- 
torney W.  H.  Chew,  Attorney  F.  Roy  Dove  and  Dr. 
W.  J.  Eddy,  who  were  selected  for  that  service  June 
7,  1917.  From  that  time  the  personnel  of  the  board 
did  not  change,  but  the  three  men  originally  se- 
lected prosecuted  the  exacting  and  important  duties 
devolving  upon  them  with  a  fidelity  that  it  is  safe 
to  say  measured  up  to  whatever  standard  was  set 
within  the  whole  Nation. 

At  a  meeting  in  the  office  of  Dr.  W.  J.  Eddy  on 
Monday,  July  2,  1917,  the  board  organized  by  elect- 
ing Mr.  Chew  chairman,  and  Dr.  Eddy  secretary. 
From  that  time  on  the  three  men  and  the  assistants 
they  had  from  time  to  time  devoted  themselves  al- 
most with  singleness  of  purpose,  to  war  work.  Feel- 
ing their  way  step  by  step  in  the  early  days  of  their 
service,  because  of  undeveloped  and  sometimes  con- 
flicting plans  of  the  war  department,  they  soon  got 
the  local  machinery  running  smoothly  and  in  such 
condition  that  the  multifarious  affairs  to  which  the 
board  was  required  to  give  attention,  were  handled  in 
a  manner  that  gratified  their  superior  officers  and 
all  whom  prejudice  did  not  prevent  from  viewing  the 
board's  actions  and  decisions  with  impartiality. 

Associated  with  the  local  board  were  the  Legal 
Advisory  Board,  consisting  of  Attorneys  Geo.  B. 
Rhoads,  Robert  I.  Pugh  and  W.  L.  Keeley,  and  the 
Government  Appeal  Agent,  Judge  A.  J..  Steidley, 
who,  with  many  volunteer  workers  among  attorneys, 
business  men,  public  school  teachers  and  others  from 
time  to  time,  rendered  valuable  service. 


The  clerks  of  the  board,  with  their  tenure  of  ser- 
vice, were  as  follows: 

George  V.  Colbert,  Shelbyville — Chief  clerk  from 
Dec.  IS,  1917,  to  March  8,  1918. 

Charles  C.  Klauser,  Shelbyville — Chief  clerk  from 
March  8,  1918,  to  Sept.  5,  1918. 

William  C.  Eddy,  Shelbyville— Chief  clerk  from 
Sept.  5,  1918,  to  Sept.  13,  1918. 

William  W.  Hartsell,  Windsor — Chief  clerk  from 
Sept.  13,  1918,  to  March  31,  1919. 

Mrs.  Bertha  M.  Ruff,  Shelbyville— Assistant  clerk 
from  Sept.  11,  1918.  to  Jan.  31,  1919. 

Emory  S.  Baugher,  Windsor  —  Assistant  clerk 
from  Oct.  21,  1918,  to  Jan.  31,  1919. 

The  volume  of  work  that  was  accomplished  by 
this  board  from  the  time  of  its  appointment  until 
its  discharge,  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  the  ma- 
terial records  made  by  the  board  and  its  clerks  filled 
eighteen  crates  and  boxes,  weighing  1,890  pounds 
at  the  time  of  their  shipment,  March  28,  1919,  to 
Washington,  D.  C.,  where  they  repose  in  fire-proof 
vaults  as  part  of  the  government's  war  records. 

But  little  idea  can  be  given  in  the  section  al- 
lowed to  the  Exemption  Board  of  the  vast  and  ardu- 
ous labor  performed  by  that  body.  The  filing  of  the 
original  registration  cards  of  the  thousands  of  men 
listed  under  the  terms  of  the  selective  service  law; 
the  making  of  duplicate  cards;  the  assigning  of  order 
numbers;  the  classification  of  the  registrants  into  the 
five  different  divisions  and  many  subdivisions;  the 
physical  examination  of  the  registrants;  the  exam- 
ination of  the  questionnaires,  after  they  had  been 
filled  in  and  returned  by  the  men  to  whom  the  board 
had  sent  them:  the  hearing  of  and  decisions  on 
claims  to  exemption  from  military  duty;  the  certi- 
fying of  many  cases  to  the  district  board;  the  re- 


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classification  of  men  who  by  reason  of  further  in- 
vestigation changed  physical  condition  or  ruling  of 
the  district  board,  were  required  to  be  transferred 
from  one  class  to  another;  the  selection  of  eligible 
men  to  fill  the  thirty-four  quotas,  ranging  from  one 
to  one  hundred  and  seventy-six  men  each,  announced 
by  the  war  department  from  time  to  time;  the  as- 
sembling of  such  men  and  making  them  ready  for 
transportation  to  training  camp  or  school;  the  keep- 
ing of  an  accurate  record  of  all  men  over  whom 
they  had  supervision;  the  hearing  of  complaints — 
these  and  many  other  duties  were  performed  by 
the  board  through  the  long  months  of  its  service  in 
such  manner  as  to  elicit  earnest  commendation  from 
Provost  Marshal  General  Enoch  H.  Crowder  and 
other  high  officials. 

In  no  instance  did  the  members  of  the  board  fail 
to  take  a  personal  interest  in  the  men  they  were  re- 
quired to  induct  into  service.  Every  man,  however 
humble,  was  looked  upon  by  them  as  a  patriotic 
citizen  who  was  laying  down  his  life  on  the  altar  of 
his  country,  and  as  such  entitled  to  the  fullest  con- 
sideration and  respect.  Whatever  personal  problem 
was  presented  to  them,  the  board  members  gave  an 
attentive  ear  and  every  possible  consideration  con- 
sistent with  their  duty  and  their  oath.  Anxiety  of 
men  regarding  relatives  they  were  leaving  behind 
were  assuaged,  fears  were  calmed,  gloom  was  dis- 
pelled with  cheery  words  and  assurances,  and  the 
men  of  the  draft  learned  early  that  in  the  members 
of  the  Exemption  Board  they  had  personal  friends, 
rather  than  stony-hearted  representatives  of  auto- 
cratic militarism.  In  one  or  two  notable  instances, 
it  is  true,  the  board  was  compelled  to  take  more 
or  less  drastic  action  with  certain  men  who  were 
less  patriotic,  but  no  more  entitled  to  deference 
than  the  boys  who  readily  accepted  active  service, 
but  these  simply  served  to  prove  the  impartiality 
with  which  the  board  acted,  in  line  with  a  firm  pur- 
pose to  discharge  its  duties  without  fear  or  favor, 
when  the  members  turned  aside  from  their  custom- 
ary professions  and  personal  interests  at  the  call 
of  their  country,  and  prosecuted  their  work  with 
such  devotion  and  equitableness  as  to  command  the 
respect  and  confidence  of  everyone,  even  though  the 
will  of  the  board  conflicted  with  their  own  personal 
desires  and  preferences. 

During  the  months  they  served,  the  members  of 
the  board  furnished  to  the  great  war  system  a  total 
of  nearly  a  thousand  men.  It  would  be  a  miracle 
if  in  deciding  the  military  status  of  this  number  of 
men  the  board  should  escape  criticism  from  some 
who  were  directly  affected.  However,  such  criticism 
was  singularly  scant,  and  in  the  months  that  have 
passed  those  who  would  have  had  different  action 
and  decision  from  the  board,  with  calmer  judgment 
unite  in  declaring  that  the  work  of  this  important 
unit  in  the  governmental  machinery  was  prosecuted 
ably,  efficiently  and  impartially. 

In  the  midst  of  his  work  as  chairman  of  the  local 
board,  Mr.  Chew  was  appointed  inspector,  to  visit 
local  boards  in  various  sections  of  the  state  where 
the  percentage  of  registrants  in  class  1  was  either 
higher  or  lower  than  the  state's  average,  and  assist 
such  boards  in  working  out  plans  to  bring  their  aver- 
age up  or  down,  as  the  case  might  be,  in  order  that 
justice  might  be  done  to  all  registrants  in  their 
jurisdiction.  In  the  words  of  the  appointive  power, 
Mr.  Chew  was  selected  for  this  work  because  of 
his  "experience  and  diplomacy."  He  devoted  con- 
siderable time  to  the  work. 

Mr.  Dove,  another  member  of  the  local  board, 
later  in  the  year  took  the  training  course  at  "Junior 
Plattsburg"  to  fit  himself  for  active  military  service 
if  called  to  the  colors. 


THE  REGISTRATION  BOARD 

Closely  allied  with  the  local  Exemption  Board 
was  the  Shelby  County  Registration  Board,  created 
in  May,  1917,  by  the  appointment  of  Sheriff  Sidney 
R.  Biggs,  County  Clerk  Ed.  R.  Allen  and  F.  A.  Mart- 
in of  Tower  Hill,  the  latter  being  the  surgeon  mem- 
ber of  the  board. 

To  this  board  was  delegated  the  work  of  setting 
up  the  machinery  by  which  the  men  designated  by 
President  Wilson  in  his  draft  proclamation  of  May 
19,  1917,  as  "those  who  have  attained  their  21st 
and  have  not  attained  their  31st  birthday,"  were 
to  be  listed  in  Shelby  County,  and  others  in  the  sub- 
sequent registrations.  In  pursuance  of  this  purpose, 
the  board  announced  its  desire  of  receiving  the 
names  of  volunteer  registrars.  The  response  was 
instantaneous.  J.  A.  Biedert,  J.  E.  Rhea  and  J.  R. 
Snapp,  all  of  Todd's  Point  Township,  were  the  first 
men  of  the  county  to  place  themselves  at  the  dis- 
posal of  the  government  for  this  work.  Others 
quickly  followed,  until  within  ten  days  from  the 
organization  of  the  Board  of  Registration,  it  an- 
nounced the  following  complete  list  of  registrars 
for  the  thirty  precincts  of  the  county,  the  first 
named  in  each  precinct  being  the  chief  registrar: 

Oconee — Harry  Hinton,  C.  P.  Diefenthaler,  J.  A. 
Hendricks. 

Herrick— R.  S.  Woolard,  J.  E.  Adams,  John  H. 
Conrad. 

Cold   Spring — William   Fellers,   Chas.   F.   Hunter. 

Tower  Hill,  Precinct  1— John  Warren,  W.  E.  Can- 
non, M.  H.  Niel. 

Tower  Hill,  Precinct  2— L.  B.  Fluckey,  Charles 
Ash,  J.  P.  Wilkinson. 

Rural — George  Galster,  Homer  Stilgebour. 

Flat   Branch — Lewis  Kuhle,  John  McGinley. 

Moweaqua — S.  S.  Clapper,  K.  R.  Snyder,  H.  R. 
Gregory. 

Dry  Point — Clyde  Howe,  S.  S.  Lorton,  T.  Ewing 
Cherry. 

Lakewood — J.  H.  Eddy,  Fred  Brant. 

Rose— Theo   Roessler,  J.   Frank   Stillwell. 

Ridge— W.  R.  Calvert,  E.  O.  Corley. 

Pickaway — Homer   Reed,   Ol   Stanley. 

Penn— H.   G.   Stewart,  W.   B.   Lindley. 

Holland,  Precinct  1 — J.  K.  Hoagland,  John  Hick- 
man. 

Holland,  Precinct  2— J.  E.  Gallagher,  H.  O. 
Clausen. 

Shelbyville,  Precinct  1— J.  C.  Willard,  Geo.  C. 
Bolinger,  A.  L.  Yantis. 

Shelbyville,  Precinct  2— Ed  Fitzgerald,  B.  S.  Yost, 
C.  T.  DeMonbrun. 

Shelbyville,  Precinct  3— J.  T.  Zimmer,  C.  B.  Man- 
ning, J.  J.  Baker. 

Okaw,  Precinct  1— C.  E.  Coventry,  H.  O.  Wilson. 

Okaw,  Precinct  2— E.  P.  Chapman,  R.  J.  Herron. 

Todd's  Point — E.  S.  Combs,  Chas.  B.  Guin. 

Prairie,  Precinct  1 — Charles  Meitzner,  John  M. 
Patterson. 

Prairie,  Precinct  2 — Dr.  W.  F.  Holmes,  George 
T.  Tull. 

Richland— J.    H.   Weber,   Edwin   H.   Easter. 

Windsor,  Precinct  1 — W.  W.  Rose,  Gaylord  W. 
Moberley,  James  Barton. 

Windsor,  Precinct  2 — Dexter  Mahoney,  Ezra 
Shuck. 

Sigel— B.  H.  Kunkler.  Will  Paxton. 

Big  Spring — R.  M.  Bingaman,  Clinton  Storm, 
John  M.  Smith. 

Ash  Grove— R.  O.  Watson,  D.  A.  Richman,  By- 
ron Zimmer. 

The  personnel  of  the  registration  board  changed 
somewhat  for  the  second  registration,  but  many  of 
the  men  originally  appointed  continued  their  service 


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as  long  as  there  was  need  for  it.  A  few,  but  their 
number  was  indeed  small,  signified  their  desire  to 
collect  the  four  dollars  per  diem  provided  by  the 
government  where  necessary  to  get  service;  but 
these  were  quickly  informed  by  the  board  that  their 
assistance  would  not  be  required,  as  the  waiting  list 
of  men  sufficiently  patriotic  to  donate  their  services 
was  always  greater  than  the  need. 

Prior  to  the  first  registration  day,  or  on  June  2, 
1917,  the  Registration  Board  called  in  the  registrars 
from  all  precincts  for  a  school  of  instruction  as  to 
their  duties,  and  practically  every  man  was  in  the 
county  seat  on  that  day  and  was  coached  as  to  the 
work  required  of  him  on  registration  day,  June  5. 

Also  in  anticipation  of  registration  day,  a  number 
of  Shelby  County  boys  who  were  absent  or  knew 
they  would  be  on  that  day,  filled  out  their  registra- 
tion cards  wherever  they  were  and  sent  them  to 
the  Registration  Board  of  this  county,  to  be  for- 
warded to  the  precinct  in  which  their  homes  were 
located.  The  first  absentee  to  register  thus  was 
Clifford  Schutte  of  Sigel,  who  sent  his  card  from 
Danville  to  the  board  and  it  was  forwarded  to  the 
Sigel  registrars.  By  June  1  the  Registration  Board 
had  89  cards  of  absentees. 

The  first  registration  day  was  on  June  5,  1917. 
At  several  points  throughout  the  county  it  was  made 
the  occasion  of  a  patriotic  demonstration.  This  was 
true  in  Shelbyville,  where  Judge  James  C.  McBride, 
presiding  over  the  June  term  of  the  Shelby  County 
Circuit  Court,  suspended  the  session  for  a  half  hour 
that  he  and  all  others  connected  with  the  court 
might  participate  in  the  exercises  that  took  place 
on  the  plaza  before  the  county  building.  A  new 
flag,  the  gift  of  State  Senator  Frank  B.  Wendling, 
was  raised,  a  squad  from  Company  H,  then  on  cy- 
clone duty  at  Mattoon,  came  over  for  the  exercises 
and  fired  the  salute  to  the  flag;  Bugler  Henry 
Thompson,  also  of  Company  H,  blew  a  salute,  the 
band  played  "The  Star-Spangled  Banner,"  and  brief 
patriotic  addresses  were  made  by  Ex-Senator  Geo. 
D.  Chafee,  Attorney  F.  Roy  Dove,  Judge  J.  C.  Mc- 
Bride, Attorney  U.  G.  Ward  and  Professor  H.  D. 
Sparks.  The  benediction  was  pronounced  by  the 
pioneer  minister,  Rev.  Jasper  L.  Douthit. 

The  registration  on  June  5,  with  a  few  belated 
cards  that  came  in  from  other  boards,  totaled  2,172 
in  Shelby  County.  By  precincts  it  was  as  follows: 

Oconee     92 

Herrick 72 

Cold    Spring 64 

Tower  Hill,    Pet    1 55 

Tower   Hill,    Pet   2 59 

Rural    55 

Flat   Branch    56 

Moweaqua    145 

Dry    Point 92 

Lakewood    54 

Rose    89 

Ridge    81 

Pickaway    74 

Penn    54  • 

Holland,   Pet.    1 61 

Holland,    Pet.   2 50 

Shelbyville,    Pet    1 93 

Shelbyville,    Pet.    2 91 

Shelbyville,    Pet.    3 87 

Okaw,   Pet.   1 92 

Okaw,   Pet.   2 23 

Todd's    Point    62 

Prairie,     Pet.     1 77 

Prairie,    Pet.    2 60 

Richland     99 

Windsor,    Pet.    1 114 

Windsor,    Pet.    2 20 

Sigel     59 

Big    Spring 57 

Ash    Grove 84 

Total  ..  *2,172 


•Thirteen      additional     names     were     added     later, 
making  the  official  total  2,185. 


Of  this  total  number,  24  were  totally  disabled; 
1,174  indicated  they  had  dependent  relatives;  192 
claimed  occupational  exemption,  while  760  made  no 
claim  whatever  for  exemption.  Three  were  colored, 
eight  were  aliens,  and  two  listed  themselves  under 
the  head  of  "legislative,  judicial  or  executive"  of- 
ficers, and  therefore  exempt  from  military  service  at 
that  time. 

THE  SECOND  REGISTRATION 

The  second  registration  of  Shelby  County  men 
took  place  on  Wednesday,  June  5,  1918,  the  anni- 
versary of  the  first  registration,  when  all  youths  who 
had  reached  their  21st  birthday  since  June  5,  1917, 
were  listed. 

This  registration  was  directly  under  the  super- 
vision of  the  local  Exemption  Board,  which  ap- 
pointed the  registrars  and  directed  all  operations. 
Contrary  to  the  plan  pursued  in  the  first  registration, 
booths  were  not  established  in  all  the  precincts  of 
the  county,  but  only  in  central  points,  where  the 
men  of  the  surrounding  territory  registered,  each 
at  the  point  most  convenient  to  him.  The  regis- 
trars, with  the  towns  in  which  they  took  the  names 
of  the  eligible  men,  were  as  follows: 

Moweaqua — S.  S.   Clapper,   Ralph  W.   Snyder. 
Westervelt — E.   D.  Barnett,  E.  D.   Kerr. 
Findlay — F.   C.   Westervelt,   R.   W.   Johnson. 
Tower  Hill— J.  P.  Wilkinson,  C.  A.  Lowery. 
Oconee — Ben  P.  Allen,  Charles  Diefenthaler. 
Cowden — B.  E.  Prater,  A.  W.  Moore. 
Clarksburg — J.  K.   Hoagland,  J.  W.  Prosser. 
Stewardson — Ralph  Voris,   A.   C.   Mautz. 
Strasburg — John  Weber,  Wm.  W.  Engel. 
Sigel— S.  S.  Bigler,  Ben  H.  Kunkler. 
Windsor — C.  C.  Firebaugh,  R.  E.  McClain. 
Shelbyville— J.   J.   Baker,   A.   L.   Yantis,   Wm.   C. 
Eddy,  A.  J.  Steidley. 

Lakewood — J.  H.  Eddy,   Sam  D.  Price. 
Herrick — R.    S.    Woolard,    Edward    Bender. 

The  registration  totaled  209  men,  and  to  this  num- 
ber 61  were  added  by  registration  on  Saturday,  Aug. 
24.  The  latter  henceforth  were  reckoned  as  of  the 
June,  1918,  registration.  Four  of  these  men,  Harry 
Arterburn,  Ralph  A.  Kircher  and  Homer  T.  Welty 
of  Shelbyville  and  Aloysius  F.  Fruchtl  of  Sigel, 
reached  their  21st  birthdays  on  the  day  of  their  reg- 
istration. 

THE  LAST  REGISTRATION 

The  fourth  and  last  registration  of  prospective 
service  men  of  Shelby  County  took  place  on  Thurs- 
day, Sept.  12,  1918,  when  all  men  who  had  attained 
their  18th  birthday  but  had  not  reached  their  46th 
birthday,  were  required  to  register. 

The  revision  of  the  age  limits  was  made  by  the 
authorities  at  Washington  in  order  to  at  one  stroke 
place  the  man-power  of  the  Nation  at  the  disposal 
of  the  Commander  in  Chief,  that  by  such  great 
superiority  of  numbers  the  enemy  might  be  over- 
whelmed and  the  war  brought  to  a  speedy  close. 

The  men  of  Shelby  responded  with  alacrity,  not 
alone  because  of  the  mandate  coming  out  of  Wash- 
ington, but  from  patriotic  motives  as  well,  and  a 
grand  total  of  3.364  men  was  listed.  Of  these,  3,304 
were  native-born  citizens;  28  naturalized  citizens;  17 
citizens  by  father's  naturalization  before  registrant's 
majority;  six  were  declarant  aliens;  nine  non-de- 
clarant aliens;  3,358  were  whites,  and  6  were  negroes. 
Of  the  declarants,  those  who  had  taken  out  their 
first  naturalization  papers,  three  were  from  England, 
one's  nationality  was  not  indicated,  one  was  from 
Russia  and  one  from  The  Netherlands.  Of  the  non- 
declarants,  one  was  from  Belgium,  three  from  Can- 


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— Courtesy  Shclbyrille  Democrat 

THE   FIRST   DRAFT   CONTINGENT— CAMP   TAYLOR,  SEPT.  5,  1917 


ada,    one    from    Italy,    one    from    Russia,   one    from 
Denmark  and   two  from  Austria-Hungary. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  the  number  of  men  of 
the  various  ages  between  18  and  46.  The  age  table 
shows  the  following: 


Age. 
18  

Number. 
272 

19  

271 

20  

227 

21  

2 

22  

1 

23  

1 

24  

0 

25  

0 

26  

0 

27  

1 

28  

1 

29  

0 

30  

0 

31  

2 

32  

120 

33  

196 

34  

203 

35  

189 

36  

193 

37  

223 

38  

195 

39  

178 

40  

194 

41  

157 

42  

190 

43  

180 

44  

176 

45  

183 

The  official  summary  of  the  several  registrations 
shows  the  following  numbers: 


June    5,    1917 

June    5,    1918 

August    24,    1918 

September    12,    1918. 


2,185 

209 

61 

3,364 


Other  official  figures  from  the  records  show  the 
following  disposition  of  the  men  up  to  Oct.  5,  1918: 
Inducted  (automatically  in  class  5),  735. 
Volunteered  after  draft  law  went  into  effect,  94. 
Deceased,  other  than  those  in  camp,  12. 
Placed  in  class  5  by  board,  133. 


Remaining  outside  class  5,  as  indicated,  4,857  reg- 
istrants. 

Seven  men  were  inducted  subsequent  to  Oct. 
5,  1918. 

THE  CLASSIFICATION   OF  MEN 

The  classifications  of  men,  as  reported  by  the 
locaj  Exemption  Board  following  the  signing  of  the 
armistice,  was  as  follows: 


June,  '17  June-Aug.  '18         Sept.  '18 


Class  I 

Class  II 

Class  III 

Class  IV 

Class  V 


737 
286 
85 
820 
133 


Totals     2,061 


198 

34 

2 

19 

17 

270 


19  to  36 
488 
41 
32 
718 
107 


1,386 


IK's 
237 

"i 

3 

5 

246 


THE  CONTINGENTS 


From  Sept.  5,  1917,  the  date  on  which  the  first 
eight  selective  service  men  were  assembled  in  Shel- 
byville  and  sent  to  the  training  camp,  to  Nov.  11, 
1918,  the  local  board  inducted  thirty-four  contingents 
of  men. 

The  induction  of  the  first  contingent  was  made 
the  occasion  of  a  great  patriotic  demonstration  in 
the  county  seat,  with  thousands  of  people  present 
from  the  county  at  large.  The  exercises  were  under 
the  direction  of  the  Shelbyville  Commercial  Club, 
with  the  local  board  co-operating.  The  latter  paid 
special  deference  to  the  eight  departing  men  by  en- 
tertaining them  at  a  dinner  at  the  New  Neal  Hotel, 
at  which  several  other  persons  also  were  present. 

CAMP  TAYLOR,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPT.   S,   1917 


Samuel  W.  West 
Harry    W.    Belles 
James     H.     Stringer 
Edward    L.    Helm 


Homer    V,    Riley 
Theodore    Morrell 
Herbert    Ruckriegel 
Orie    Ol    Dilley 


Page  Fifteen 


CAMP  TAYLOR,  TUESDAY,  SEPT.  18.  1917 


— Courtesy  Shelby  rill  e  Democrat 


Martin    G.    Ulmer 
Chas.    R.    Rosine 
Morris    C.    Wallace 
Tracy    M.    Hoy 
Ray    Young 
Clarence    Bixler 
Harry    F.    Campbell 
Jehu    B.    Donnell 
Barnev    C.    Holthaus 
Pete    G.    A.    Cutler 
Orlando    F.    Patient 

Will    Lucas 
lohn    E.    Wicker 
Charles    IT.    Strohl 
Austin    Mosely 
Ira   S.   Raird  ' 
G  rider    II.    Moherley 
Clo    C.    Oshorne 
Elmer    Fritz 
George    F.    Furr 
John     A.     Simpson 
Elgin    T.    Swiney 

Guv    E.    Sherwood 
Walter    O.    Welsh 
Willis    H.    Wirey 
Tames    F.    La  whom 
George    Butcher 
George    E.    Bay  less 
George    Owens 
Herman    T.    Y  oakum 
Henry    C.    Lading 
David    F.    Hinton 

Flmer    F.    Tahbert 
Wm.    H.    Stevens 
John    F.    Hott 
George    E.    Shipley 
Alpha     E.     Largent 
Earl     A.    Smith 
George    P.    Dowd 
Batsie  A.    Godwin 
Elmer  Wiley 
John    Scribner 

William    R.    Wiley 
Lawrence    H.    Sudc; 
John    E.    Stapleton 
Trvin    T.    Schrock 
Roma   T.    Brownlee 
John    L.    Schutte 
Howard    M.    Doyle 
Earl    K.    Lugar  ' 
Carl    Holley 
Howard    E.    Lemons 
Curtis    T.    Leaf 

Wiley    Warner 
imp   Harley    P.    Ragan 
Howard   C.    Hastings 
Norman    R.    Wallace 
Thomas    E.    Gregory 
John    F.    Taniges 
John    L.    Fluga 
Otto    E.    Shipley 
Gay    Blackstone 
i          John    H.    Raker 
Luther   J.   Ringo 

CAMP  TAYLOR,  TUESDAY,  OCT.  2,  1917 


Cloyd   Wright 
Henry   Anderson 
Isom    Gransor    Stalcup 
Jacob    Perry 
John   A.   Towers 
Rennie   L.    Frazier 
Karl   Johnson 
Elza    Dodson 
Edgar  Leon  Whitlatch 
Harlin    Leon    Askins 
Fred    C.    Curtis 
Roy    R.    Purcell 
Charles    Brown 
Gilbert    T.    Delaney 
Walter    E.    Norberg 
Charles    Edward    Reaman 
Foster    B.    Storm 


Linder  Milligan 
Calvin    Butler 
Birney   S.    Ilite 
Harry    T.    Culberson 
Clyde    Briggs 
Jack    Horn 
Lloyd  A.   Johnson 
Fred   M.    Martin 
Jesse    Mars 
Wm.    Ray    Perry 
Charlie   Monroe  Neal 
Garland    J.    Storm 
Joseph    Lamb 
Claude   F.    Phipps 
Vivian    Roadarmel 
John    W.    Farris 


ORDNANCE  TRAINING,  UNIVERSITY  OF 
CHICAGO,  FRIDAY,  JAN.  4,  1918 

O.   Stanley  Smith 

FORT   OGLETHORPE,   GA.,   THURSDAY, 
JAN.  10,  1918 

Delbert  Warren  Jones  Rollie    Edgar    Mose 

Arthur    Herman    Swanson  Robert    Erwin   Nichols 

Thomas     Stephen     Jester  George    Sigler 

David   Bennett   Hill  Roche    C.    Gordon 

Vollie    L.    Tressler  Laurance   Gleason 

Glenn  H.    Hunt 

CAMP  TAYLOR,  THURSDAY,  JAN.  10,  1918 


Melvin  A.  Staab 


FORT  OGLETHORPE,  GA.,  THURSDAY, 

JAN.  17,  1918 


Benj.  O.  Heitmeyer 


John   J.    Campbell 


FORT   OGLETHORPE,   GA.,  THURSDAY, 
JAN.  24,   1918 


Frank    Mclntire 
Horace    J.    Clerk 


Reman    H.   Harlan 
Verne    Howard    Coffman 


CAMP  TAYLOR,  SATURDAY,  FEB.  23,  1918 


George    A.    Fouste 
Edwin    W.    Engel 


Frank    H.    Barnett 
C.    T.    Weakley 
Lester    Gordon 
Otto   O.   West 
Scott  E.  Giles 
George    E.   Agney 
Albert  H.  Woods 
Roscoe    B.    Walker 
Eddie    Batson 
Andrew    E.    Ruff 
Murphy    A.    Herron 
James  Irl   Darst 
Orville   W.   Hinton 
William    R.    Beck 
Norvell     Garrett 
John    Emery    Frost 
Gustav    H.    Cress 
Warren   S.   Bivins 
Walter   A.    Cushman 
Hershel    Bateman 
Noah    W.    Shride 
William    J.    Helleman 
Ray   E.   Dush 
Truman    A.    Hay  ward 
A  mace    Earl    Smith 
Lawrence     E.    Heitmeyer 
Reason   J.    Davis 


George   J.    Shaw 
Raymond  Kingston 
Orval    C.    Metzger 
Samuel    C.    Brauer 
William    E.   Romiuger 
Emert    Frailey 
Charles    L.    Meredith 

Joseph   Eash 
-eslie   Milford 
Edward    F.    Fox 
Herman    T.    Bruns 
Edler    E.    Johnson 
William    Otto   Curry 
Lewis    Brown 
Otto   I-..    Swanson 
Guy    E.   Morford 
Charles    Virgil    Suttles 
John    G.    Rakers 
Harley   Gill 
Nelson   W.  Moss 
Ralph   Horn 
Boyd    Bridges 
Floyd   Ancil   Christy 
Ivan    P.    Abbott 
Carl    H.    Gatchell 
Arch    E.    Dill 
Miles    Hinton 


Page  Sixteen 


THIRTY-THREE  MEN  TO  CAMP  TAYLOR,  OCT.  2,  1917 


— Courtesy  Shclbyrilh  Democrat 


BRADLEY    POLYTECHNIC    INSTITUTE, 
PEORIA,  FRIDAY,  MARCH  29,  1918 


CAMP  SHELBY,  HATTIESBURG,  MISS.,  MON- 
DAY, MAY  27,  1918 


Jesse    L.    Tallman 


Russell   H.   Chapman 
Verner  Eiler 


CAMP  DIX,  WRIGHTSTOWN,  N.  J.,  TUESDAY, 
APRIL  30,  1918 


Lawrence  Horn 
Charles    C.    En  gel 
Harry    Elliott 
Roy    Sills 
William   E.    Sarver 
Grover    C.    Storm 
Maxwell    Pugsley 
John    D.    Sarver 
Benj.    Largent 
Michael    Roberts 
James    Raymond    Powell 
Glenn    G.    Austin 
Harry    E.    Storm 
Charles  Wilson 
Bertie    N.    Bryson 
Henry    Popendicker 
George    B.    Roberts 
Jesse  B.   Bright 
Arthur   R.    Fouste 
Elmer    Dodson 
Bert    O.    Spates 
George    E.    Moore 
Roscoe    Tony    Clark 

Rollie 


Melton   Jerrold 
.     Emery    Largent 
Phillip    Lamson 
Jesse    J.    Chapman 
Fred    Leonard    Severn 
Merritt    Nance 
Warren    R.    Stephens 
Vernon    C.    Leo 
Don    C.    Walker 
Mell    Banning 
Homer  G.   Fowler 
Clarence   L.    Miller. 
Alva    C.    Forquer 
Emanuel    L.    Taylor 
Esco   C.   Jones 
William  Whitrock 
Guy    E.    Krieble 
John   A.    McCoy 
Thomas   J.    Farris 
William    L.    Waters 
Charles    Meitzner 
Robin    Stamper 
Samuel    Jackson 
W.    Larimore 


JEFFERSON   BARRACKS,  THURSDAY,  MAY 
23,  1918 


Grant    Bechtel 
Decie    Ditzler 
J.  B.  Duckett 
Chas.   W.   Flesch 
Cecil  Hemphill 
Louie  J.   Kruger 
Wm.   F.  Moore 
Mindie   Orr 
Ellsworth   Perry 
John    Leonard    Stretch 
Delmar  Lewis  Tucker 
Orion  R.   Welty 


Page  Seventeen 


Earl    E.   Cohoon 
Esco   Dill 
Joseph  W.  Fought 
Calvin   Head 

Arthur   Edward   King 
Chas.   E.  Mills 
Wm.   S.   Macklin 
John  R.  O'Xeil 
Chas.  Rittgers 
Arthur  Tull 
Anson   McD.  Wilson 
Cecil   Wanus 
Garrett  II.  Young 


John  Allen 
Thomas    Anderson 
William     R.     Bowman 
Chester    F.    Bethards 
Ross    A.    Blair 
Press    Beard 
Earl    S.    Campbell 
John    W.    Cummings 
Ernest    B.    Cosart 
Lester    C.    Cannon 
Conrad    Dobson 
William    J.    Daugherty 
Ernest    C.    Graham 
Ervin    Hulett 
E.   Wallace   Holin 
Harry    A.    Hood 
Albert    V.     Horn 
Claud    D.    Lugar 
Bernard    J.    Moberly 
Henry    G.    Mueller 
Jesse    W.    Mays 
William    L.    Owens 
J.    C.    Osterday 
Vern    C.    Powell 
James    F.    Robey 
William    R.    Reynolds 
Roy    Algood 
Robert    L.    Brownback 
Clarence    Ben  field 
Claud    Cyrus    Barr 
Rex    Henry    Bechtel 
William   S.    Burnett 
Charles    Cameron 


John 


Leslie    E.    Cox 
Earl    E.    Cheatham 
Clyde    A.    Compton 
Everett    L.    Davis 
Elza  Franklin  Ginger 
Forrest     Griffith 
Robert   Riley    Hulett 
William    H.    Hays 
Ilarley    Wesley    Hoy 
William    Otto    Lockhard 
Fred    E.   Lemons 
Charles    Thomas    Mclntosli 
John    Matthews 
Fred   II.    Miller 
Ed    H.    Ostermeier 
James    A.    Page 
Stephen    Roy     Portwood 
Harley    E.    Reynolds 
Lloyd    Read 
Henry    A.    Rozene 
Chester    W.    Sphar 
Orval   J.    Sprague 
Mahlon    Tidd 
Charles    D.    Williams 
Charles     O.     Workman 
Ralph    Williams 
Walter    L.    Severe 
William    E.    Stucker 
Adolph    G.    Schwerdt 
Sadi     Viseur 
John    C.    Winnings 
Ralph  C.   Waters 
Justin    Aloysius   Domas 
P.    Fought 


FORT  THOMAS,   KY.,  WEDNESDAY,   MAY  29, 

1918 


Jacob    Lester   Bennett 
Bertie    A.     Brown 
Paul    L.    Bixler 
Arthur    R.    Clow 
Orion    E.    Elliott 
John    Floski 
Richard    Gregory 
Bert    H.    Helton 
John    Carey    Kuhl 
Charles    L.    Montonye 
Hubert    Pike 
Maurice    A.    Sullivan 
Clarence    Suttles 
Ledger   M.    Storm 
Walter   S.    Carpenter 


Forrest    Brown 
Walter    J.    Brophy 
Pete    Credi 
Harry    Lance    Dill 
Edwin     H.     Faster 
Earl   T.   Geer 
Morris    Hancock 
Grover   C,    Horn 
William  A.  Ludwig 
Ira    P.    Nichols 
Clifford    A.    Rodgers 
Earl    Stansberry 
Roy    H.    Satterthwaite 
Paul    K.  Theobald 
Raymond    L.    Thompson 


— Courtesy  Shelbyville  Democrat 

ELEVEN  MEN  TO  FT.  OGLETHORPE,  GA.,  JAN.  10,  1918 


FORT  THOMAS,  KY.,  FRIDAY,  MAY  10,  1918 


Jess    Bland 
Clyde    E.    How 
Ward   A.    Phillips 


Tony    D.    Ethridge 
Charles    H.    Poole 
Roy  Venters 
Grover    Weathers 


LEWIS   INSTITUTE,    CHICAGO,    MAY    16.    1918 

Everett    E.    Douthit 

BRADLEY   INSTITUTE,   THURSDAY,  JUNE  6, 
1918 

Harold    E.    Rosenberg  George    W.    Williams 

Charles  Throckmorton 

VALPARAISO,   IND.,   FRIDAY,  JUNE   14,   1918 
Orley  P.  Hilsabeck  John  H.   Mauzey 

RAHE    AUTO    SCHOOL,    KANSAS    CITY,    MO., 
FRIDAY,  JUNE  14,  1918 

Haldon  B.  Ayars          John  T.  Kensil  Otto   Garrett 

Guy.  H.  Bridgman        Lester   N.    Mowry        Cecil  S.  Hudson 
Samuel  H.  Cartmell    Albert  L.   llarth  Eorrest  W.  Manning 

Ross   W.   Henry  Howard  Bridgman       Horace  B.   Whitaker 

Howard  M.  Woolard 

VANCOUVER,  WASH.,  SUNDAY,  JUNE  23,  1918 

Orthie    E.    Coffman 

FORT   MONROE,   VA.,   FRIDAY,  JULY    12,   1918 

Luther    F.    Simpson 

STATE  FAIR  GROUNDS,  SYRACUSE,  N.  Y. 
WEDNESDAY,  JULY  31,  1918 


Leo   B   Dust 
William   L.    Kelly 


Thomas    A.    Pierce 
Daniel    A.    Smith 
Philip    L.    Cutler 


LEWIS   INSTITUTE,   CHICAGO,   ILL.,   WED- 
NESDAY, AUG.  14,  1918 

Floyd  L.  Biggs  Earl    W.    Nichols 

ARMOUR    INSTITUTE,    CHICAGO,    ILL.,    SAT- 
URDAY, AUG.  31,  1918 

Ervil    E.   Duckett  James    Claud    Slater 

CAMP  GRANT,  ROCKFORD,  ILL.,  TUESDAY, 
SEPT.  3,  1918 

Jesse    Gill  Ralph   E.    Navis  Charles   H.   Sexson 

Robert   Gill  Edward    Price  James    F.    Stivison 

Clem    E.    Hofman  Charles   E.   Reiss  William    F.    Tull 
Walter   Senn    Hoover 

CAMP    FORREST,    GA.,    THURSDAY,    SEPT.    5, 
1918 

William    Clucas  William    H.  Thomas  Hubert    Turner 

John   A.    Metzger  Earl   Bryan  Tull  James    Tucker' 

John    Pollman  Harry    Earl  Wai  trip   Toe  Whitrock 
Edward   C.    Schoch 


CAMP  CUSTER,  MICH.,  THURSDAY,  SEPT.  5, 
1918 

Harry    C.    McDonald 


Thomas   E.  Alward  Harry    E.    Riley 

W.   J.  Ashenbremer  Edward    Hartman 

George   H.    Banks  Earl    Helton 

Homer   E.    Banning  Harry    Hilliard 

Thomas   F.   Barding  Edward   Hoehn 


John  D.  McGrath 
James  Burl  Moon 
Louis  R.  Mose 


Theodore    C.    Bigler    George    C.    Hott  -.*«......   —   

W.    O.    Humphrey       Richard    N.Noling 


Raymond   F.    Mose 

6  Martin   H.   Mueller 

.    Humphrey       Richard    N.    Nolii 

Dale    F.    Boyer  Grover  C.   Johnson      Martin  J.    Nippe 

M.    H.    Bridgewater    William    C.    Johnson  Raymond   holing 
Earnest    E.    Brown     William    E.  Jones        Howard  R.  Ordell 
Ray    W.    Carpenter     Chris    M.    Kircher       Russell   T.    Orberg 
Glenn   Carroll  Charles   C.    Klauser    Carlos    M.    Ferryman 

James   R.   Christy         Charles  A.  Roessler    Earl    Price 
Lester   O.   Curry          William   A.    Sanner    James    O.    Price 
Henry   T.    Curtis          Everett   Scroggins        Hugo  F.  L.  Rechlm 
Raymond    Denier         Dwight    M.    Snell         Alva    O.    Reynolds 
Harland    Dickinson     Charles  W.   Stone        Irvin    W.    Rozene 
Robert  T.  Dobbs          John    H.    Swanson      Harrison    G.    Sidener 
Hansel    E.    Dush          Curt    H.    Thompson    Harry    Sexson 
Chas.   Cyrus   Engel     Arthur    Unruh  Douglas    Stewardson 

Cecil   B.    Francisco      Ernest    M.    Weber       Joseph   H.    Sudkamp 
Roy    Williams  Oscar   Thomas 

Chas.    S.    Yarbrough  Martin    Tiemann 
Noble    Moore  Raymond    L.    Ward 

Wm.  J.  H.  Koester     Lester    Winnings 
Tames    E.    Lee  Ray    C.    Woodworth 

"E.    B.    McClellan        Harry   Arterburn 


. 

William    H.    Fritz 
John     Getz 
Clarence    Griffin 
Oba    L.    Guthrie 
Irvin    Hardin 
Robert    Hardin 
William   E.  Harrison 


CAMP  GRANT,  ROCKFORD,  ILL.,  SATURDAY, 
SEPT.  7,  1918 

Burley    C.    Westenhaver 

ARMOUR    INSTITUTE,    CHICAGO,    ILL.,    FRI- 
DAY, SEPT.  13,  1918 

John   R.    Wilson  Welling  Bolt 

LOYAL   ORDER   OF   MOOSE,   MOOSEHEART, 
ILL..   WED.,    SEPT.    18,    1918 

Orlie    Lester    Eversole 

JEFFERSON    BARRACKS,    MO.,    MONDAY, 
SEPT.  23,  1918 


Morris  O.  Dihel 


William   C.   Eddy 


NORTHWESTERN   UNIVERSITY,  WEDNES- 
DAY EVENING,  AUG.  14,  1918 


Hugh    M.    Wortman 


Orville    Eversole 


C    O.   T.   S.    FIELD   ARTILLERY,   CAMP   TAY- 
LOR, KY.,  THURSDAY,  NOV.  7,  1918 


William  Frederick  Aichele 


Page  Eighteen 


— Courtesy  Shelbyrille  Democrat 


FIFTY-SEVEX   MEN   TO    CAMP   DIX,   WRIGH^STOWX,  N.  J.,  APRIL  30,  1918 


Legal  Advisory  Board 


An  important  arm  of  the  selective  service  ma- 
chinery in  Shelby  County  was  the  Legal  Advisory 
Board,  the  prime  duty  of  which  was  to  assist  the 
registrants  in  properly  filling  out  their  question- 
naires and  advising  them  about  matters  pertaining 
to  their  service.  The  board  was  created  Dec.  19, 
1917.  by  the  appointment  of  Attorney  Geo.  B. 
Rhoads,  chairman,  and  Attorneys  W.  L.  Kelley  and 
Robert  I.  Pugh  associate  members.  Later,  when 
Mr.  Kelley  entered  the  service,  he  was  superseded 
by  R.  T.  Eddy.  The  board  organized  and  imme- 
diately appointed  all  members  of  the  Shelby  County 
Bar  associate  members.  These  members,  including 
Attorneys  W.  H.  Chew  and  F.  R.  Dove,  members 
of  the  local  Exemption  Board,  were:  Attorneys 

D.  A.   Milligan  W.    E.   Lowe 
Milton    Harbee  J.    E.    Dazey 
S.    S.    Clapper  R.   T.    Eddy 
William    Raum  R.    R.    Parrish 
W.   C.  Kelley 

G.    D.    Chafee 

E.  A.    Richardson 
W.   O.   Wallace 


A.    J.    Steidley 
W.  "W.    Hartsell 
W.    B.   Townsend 
Walter    Rose 
L.    C.    Westervelt 


J.  J.  Baker 

W.    C.    Headen 

W.    H.    Ragan 

Robert   Jarnagin 

J.    C.    Willard 

W.   H.  Whitaker 

William    H.    Craig 

J.    E.    Crockett 

George    M.    Hudson     T.    C.    Dove 

U.   G.   Ward  A.   L.   Yantis 

The  work  of  the  Board  grew  rapidly,  and  as  it  in- 
creased branches  were  organized  over  the  county 
and  soon  there  were  associate  members  in  every 
town.  The  list  of  such  who  took  the  oath  of  office 
and  gave  considerable  time  to  the  work  of  the 
Board,  is  as  follows: 

SHELBYVILLE 

Elza    C.    Smith  John    W.    Yantis  E.  A.  Johnston 

John    A.    Tracy  Chas.   W.  Waggoner  E.   R.   Knecht 


J.    E.    Kieffer 
William    Harris 
O.    O.    Barker 

James    F.    Kull 
L.    B.    Weber 
Henry   Faster,   Jr. 

Page  Nineteen 


L.   R.   Tallman 


Cecil    T.    DeMonbrun 


John    M.    Heslin  W.  H.  Wycko 

Frank    D.    Parker 


11 


STRASBURG 
A.    M.    Boling 
M.    R.    Storm 


George    B.    Kull 
Martin    Kull 


SIGEL 


X.  B.   Dougherty 
George   R.    Dunlap 
Joseph    B.    Gier 

John  K.  Hoagland 
Charles   A.    Lowery 

L.  C.  Kessler 
J.  A.  Hadley 
Burl  Corley 


Dean    Parrill 
Joseph   H.    Dunscom 


A.    W.   Askins 
E.    S.    Combs 


Sam   D.   Price 
L.    F.    Parr 


Frank    Larimer 


A.    C.   Mautz 
Elmer  Streng 


John  C.  Quinn 
Benjamin  Doll 
P.  H.  McClory 

C).    A.  Jewett 
R.    N.    Thompson 
Edward    Cosart 
D.    R.   Walter 
James   W.   Jones 
F.    M.    Morgan 


C.  J.   Simmons 
B.   H. 


Kunkler 


William   L.    Quatman 
Edward    L.    Wittkopp 


CLARKSBURG 

E.   C.   Graybill 
TOWER  HILL 

O.    C.    Maze 
HERRICK 

C.  F.  Lee  C.   W.    Wallace 

H.   S.   Stafford  H.  O.  Kesler 

C.    B.    Latimer 
WINDSOR 

Hugh   S.    Lilly 
j  W.    G.   Rice 

W.  W.  Griffith 
FINDLAY 

Thomas    C.    Birkett 
O.    E.    Stumpf 
LAKEWOOD 

J.   H.    Eddy 
C.    A.   Askins 
MODE 

R.    A.    Groves  Roy   C.   Fleming 

STEWARDSON 

R.   A.    Peters 
H.   H.   York,  Jr. 
J.  C.  Duddlesten 

MOWEAQUA 

K.  R.  Snyder 

TROWBRIDGE 

R.   M.    Bingaman  Frank    Kennedy 

Joseph    W.    McClory          James   F.   Hughes 


COWDEN 

S.    S.    Lorton 
Leo    Ferryman 
Edward  Nance 
Bert  W.   Lester 
C.  A.   Moore 
Dudley   Cosart 


B.   E.   Prater 
Rollo  R.   McMillen 
A.    W.    Moore 
Stuart    Nance 
John   B.   McCauIey 
E.  P.  Ziegler 


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— Courtesy  Shelbyrille  Democrat 

BRADLEY  POLYTECHNIC  INSTITUTE,  PE- 
ORIA,  ILL.,  THURSDAY,  OCT.  10,  1918 

Clark    Thomas    Peterson         Form   William    Xees  lames   Galord    Webb 

George    Kneller  Clay   Toothman  Carl   A.   Turner 


WE  HAVE  ANSWERED 

(By   Lieut.    Col.   John   McCrae,   of 

the    Canadian    Forces,    Who 

Died  at  the  Front.) 

THE  CRY 

In  Flanders  fields  the  poppies  grow 
Between  the  crosses,  row  on  row, 
That   mark   our   place;   and  in   the 

sky 

The  larks,  still  bravely  singing,  fly, 
Scarce  heard  amidst  the  guns  be- 
low. 

In  Flanders  fields. 

We  are  the  dead, 

Short  days  we  lived,  felt  dawn,  saw 

sunset  glow, 

Loved  and  were  loved,  and  now  lie 
In  Flanders  fields. 

Take  up  our  quarrel  with  the  foe! 
To    you    from    falling    hands    we 

throw  the  torch — 
Be  yours  to  hold  it  high! 
If  ye  break  faith  with  us  who  die, 
We  shall  not  sleep,  though  poppies 

blow 

In  Flanders  fields. 

AMERICA'S  ANSWER 

Rest    sweetly    in    thy   place    where 

grow 

The  radiant  poppies,  row  on  row. 
Far  overseas  we  heard  the  cry; 
We  caught  the  torch,  we  raised  it 

high. 
High    it    shall    stay    while    poppies 

grow 

In  Flanders  fields. 

In     Flanders     fields     now     poppies 

blow 
More    deeply    red;    more    brightly 

glow; 
For   blood   of   thine   and   blood   of 

mine, 
Mingling,    bathed   them    in   glory's 

wine; 
And    triumph    reigns    where    stood 

the  foe 

In  Flanders  fields. 

—Willis  G.  Brown. 


Songs  of  the  Training  Camps 


I  used  to  wake  up  with  a  sticky  tongue 

And  an  eye  that  was  dull  and  red. 
And  the  songs  that  the  early  birdies  sung 

I  heard  on  my  way  to  bed; 
But  now  I  jump  with  the  reveille 

And  my  eyes  are  bright  and  clear. 
And  I  thank  my  lucky  stars  each  day 

That  the  government  brought  me  here. 


THE  RECRUIT 

I  used  to  be  flabby  and  soft  and  white 

When  I  sat  at  a  desk  in  town, 
But  since  I've  been  learning  the  way  to  fight, 

I'm  husky  and  hard  and  brown; 
It  took  a  cocktail  to  make  me  eat 

The  choicest  of  food,  but  now 
You  watch  me  march  to  a  mess-shack  seat 

And  wade  through  the  army  chow. 


I  used  to  be  mean  as  a  hermit  crab 

Till  I'd  swallowed  my  morning  drink. 
But  now  that  I'm  wearing  the  olive  drab 

I'm  blithe  as  a  bobolink, 
For  the  fresh  air  thrills  through  my  throat  and  chest 

And  I  just  want  to  shout  and  roar, 
And  life  has  a  savor,  a  zip,  a  zest 

That   I  never  have  known  before. 

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So  I  smile  a  sort  of  shamefaced  smile 

When  I  think  how  I  pled  exempt, 
And  I'm  glad  that  the  board  saw  through  my  guile 

With  a  glance  of  cool  contempt; 
And  though  I  may  perish  across  the  seas, 

I'll  be  one  of  a  splendid  clan, 
For  the  army's  taken  a  piece  of  cheese 

And  made  it  into  a  Man! 

— By  Berton   Braley  in  Popular  Magazine. 


THIRTY    MEN   TO    FT.   THOMAS,  K.Y..   MAY  29,    1918         —Courtesy  Sliclbyrille  Democrat 


Government  Appeal  Agent 


One  of  the  busiest  individual  war-time  officials, 
whose  work  was  coordinated  with  that  of  the  local 
Exemption  Board,  was  Judge  A.  J.  Steidley,  whom 
Governor  Frank  O.  Lowden  appointed  Government 
Appeal  Agent  for  Shelby  County. 

Judge  Steidley's  duties  as  such  official  commenced 
upon  the  organization  of  the  local  board,  when  the 
selective  service  law  went  into  effect,  and  he  served 
during  the  entire  remaining  period  of  the  war,  en- 
tirely without  compensation. 

That  the  duties  of  the  office  were  no  sinecure  is 
indicated  by  their  character.  He  was  (1)  legal  ad- 
viser of  all  registrants;  (2)  assisted  in  perfecting  all 


appeals  to  the  District  Board;  (3)  attended  to  cor- 
rection of  errors  made  in  questionnaires:  (4)  pre- 
pared additional  affidavits  in  connection  with  all 
questionnaires  sent  up  on  appeal:  and  (5)  acted  in 
conjunction  with  the  local  board  in  regard  to  classi- 
fication of  registrants,  when  requested  by  the  board 
to  do  so. 

Judge  Steidley  also  on  January  18,  1919.  was 
appointed  by  Adjutant  General  Frank  S.  Dickson 
as  Acting  Inspector  of  Local  Board  Records  and 
Files,  and  in  that  capacity  made  a  trip,  under  as- 
signment, to  Mattoon,  where  he  examined  all  files 
and  records  of  the  Local  Board  of  Coles  County, 
•  and  made  a  report  thereon. 


The  First 


Elmer  D.  Flowers  and  Leo  C.  Kelley  ran  each 
other  a  close  race  in  getting  into  the  military  serv- 
ice. The  former,  however,  had  a  little  the  "edge"  on 
Kelley,  as  without  waiting  for  the  impending  declar- 
ation of  war  on  the  part  of  the  United  States,  he  en- 
listed for  infantry  service  and  was  one  of  the  Amer- 
ican soldiers  who  landed  in  France  with  General 
Pershing  with  the  vanguard  of  the  fighters  who  were 
destined  to  bring  the  World  War  to  a  speedy  close. 

Flowers  enlisted  in  Mattoon  on  the  2d  of  April, 
1917,  and  was  sent  from  there  to  Jefferson  Barracks, 
Mo.  From  that  point  he  was  transferred  to  Douglas, 
Ariz.,  and  later  landed  with  Pershing's  first  division 
in  France  the  latter  part  of  June.  At  the  time  of  his 
enlistment  Flowers  was  not  21  years  old. 


Corporal  Leo  Kelley  was  a  close  second  to  Flow- 
ers, being  the  first  Shelby  County  boy  to  enlist  after 
President  Wilson  declared  a  state  of  war  with  Ger- 
many existed.  Then  a  student  in  Chicago  and  un- 
der the  age  of  independent  enlistment.  Kelley  hast- 
ened to  his  home  in  Shelbyville  as  soon  as  the  Presi- 
dent's declaration  was  announced,  obtained  his 
parents'  consent,  returned  to  Chicago  and  enlisted 
on  April  8.  He  passed  all  tests,  took  the  necessary 
training  course  and  was  sent  to  France  with  the  fa- 
mous Rainbow  division.  He  received  promotion,  and 
after  some  time  in  the  general  service  he  was  de- 
tailed as  an  instructor  in  a  training  camp  in  France, 
performing  that  service  in  a  highly  creditable  man- 
ner until  the  signing  of  the  armistice. 

Page  Twenty-Two 


DR.  J.  C.  WESTERVELT 
Chairman 


MRS.   MOLLIE  ISENBERG 

Chairman  Woman's  Work 


Miss  EDNA  CONN 
Secretary 


THE  AMERICAN  RED  CROSS 


The  story  of  the  woman's  work  in  Shelby 
County  during  the  World  War  cannot  be  writ- 
ten. 

The  sacrifice,  the  devotion,  the  zeal,  the  one- 
ness of  purpose  with  which  the  women  of  the 
county  threw  themselves  into  the  big  and  un- 
accustomed job  their  hearts  and  hands  found 
to  do,  approached  those  of  the  zealot. 

Scorning  their  own  ease,  unmindful  of  their 
own  comfort,  forgetful  of  the  quiet  and  shel- 
tered routine  they  had  been  wont  to  follow,  in- 
different to  social  activities,  they  unhesitat- 
ingly donned  the  cloak  of  service  and  gave 
themselves  to  the  alleviation  of  distress,  the 
holding  up  of  the  hands  of  their  soldier  men, 
the  bearing  of  unaccustomed  burdens,  the  mul- 
titude of  little  tasks  which  in  the  aggregate 
bulked  large  in  the  great  structure  of  united 
war  work. 

Nowhere  does  the  service  of  women  shine 
with  greater  luster  than  in  the  work  of  mercy 
and  helpfulness  performed  through  the  medium 
of  the  Shelby  County  Chapter,  American  Red 
Cross. 

Soon  after  America  entered  the  war  the  initial 
steps  toward  forming  a  Red  Cross  in  Shelby  were 
taken,  and  on  May  9th,  1917,  the  organization  was 
effected  at  a  meeting  held  in  the  Public  Library 
building  in  Shelbyville,  when  the  following  officers 
were  elected: 

Chairman — Dr.  J.  C.  Westervelt. 
Vice  Chairman — Mrs.   F.  P.   Auld. 
Secretary— W.  L.  Kelley. 
Treasurer— O.    W.    Walker. 

Subsequently  Mr.  Kelley  was  superseded  by  Miss 
Edna  Conn,  who  is  still  secretary  of  the  Chapter, 


and  Mrs.  Ella  W.  Hamlin,  who  first  was  made  chair- 
man of  the  Woman's  Committee  on  Hospital  Sup- 
plies, was  succeeded  by  Mrs.  Mollie  Isenberg,  with 
Mrs.  Geo.  B.  Rhoads  as  secretary. 

Adopting  the  report  of  a  nominating  committee 
appointed  at  the  first  meeting,  on  May  11  the  Chap- 
ter elected  the  following  named  directors  for  the 
terms  indicated: 

OXE  YEAR 


/.  J.^Ward 
H.    E.   Monroe 
[..    E.    Powell 
John    G.    Root 


George    1).    Chafee 
I.    S.    Storm 
F.    P.   Bivins 
Mrs.   C.   E.  Chester 


B.    P.    Hearing 
V.    E.    Mullins 
*.    Alletta    Herrold 
R.    I.    Fritter 


E.  E.  Herron 
H.  D.  Sparks 
A.  L.  Yantis 
George  Griffith 


TWO   YEARS 


W.    C.   Headen 
William    Edgar 
C.    H.    Beetle 
Mrs.    Mary    Lloyd 


THREE  YEARS 


Theo.    Thompson 
Mrs.    F.   O.    Bisdee 
Mrs.    Jacob    Kull 
Mrs.    C.    E.    Chester 


A  membership  drive  followed  immediately,  and 
a  total  of  473  members  were  enrolled.  Later  the 
number  was  increased  to  1.407  in  Shelbyville,  with 
a  grand  total  of  something  like  7,000  in  the  county, 
throughout  which  branches  of  the  Chapter  were 
quickly  organized.  The  county's  membership  quota 
was  only  4,700.  The  work  of  these  branches  is  de- 
tailed in  another  section  of  this  chapter. 

THE  PERFECTED  ORGANIZATION 

The  perfected  organization  of  the  Shelby  County 
Chapter  was  as  follows: 

Chairman — Hr.   J.    C.    Westervelt. 

Vice   Chairman — Mrs.  F.   P.  Auld. 

Secretary — Miss    Edna    Conn. 

Treasurer — O.    W.    Walker. 

Chairman    Hospital    Supply    Department — Mrs.  M.  Isenberg. 

EXECUTIVE   COMMITTEE 
Miss  (ieorgie  T.  Hopkins  C.   E.  Bolinger 

Miss   Fleta  Miller  Dr.   W.  J.   Eddy 

Mrs.    Mollie    Isenberg 


Page   Twenty-Three 


THE  WOMAN'S   BRANCH 

Chariman — Mrs.    Mollie    Isenberg. 

\rice  Chairman—Mrs.   W.  C.  Kelley. 

Secretary-Treasurer — Mrs.    George    B.    Rhoads. 

Chairman  Surgical  Dressings  Department — Mrs.  F.   P.  Auld. 

In  the  summer  of  1918  Mrs.  Ruby  Walker  was 
appointed  chairman  of  a  finance  committee,  and 
owing  to  the  absence  of  Mrs.  Auld,  in  the  spring 
of  1919  Miss  Ida  Diddea  was  appointed  chairman  of 
the  Surgical  Dressings  department. 

For  the  first  year  Mrs.  Mae  Hambleton  was  chair- 
man of  the  Knitting  Department,  and  was  then  suc- 
ceeded by  Mrs.  Minnie  Baum. 

Under  the  capable  leadership  of  the  various  of- 
ficers and  with  the  co-operation  of  a  myriad  of 
women  and  men,  the  work  of  the  Red  Cross  imme- 
diately sprang  into  universal  favor  and  was  prose- 
cuted with  great  effectiveness,  the  traditions  of  the 
Red  Cross  being  fully  sustained. 

An  epitome  of  the  work  of  the  Chapter,  inde- 
pendent of  the  nineteen  branches,  shows  the  follow- 
ing accomplishments: 

Membership,   1,407. 

Money   raised,  $-(5,748.74. 

Christmas  boxes  sent  overseas,   600. 

Knitted  articles   made   for   soldiers,  4,578. 

Articles  for  hospital  use,  4,735. 

Garments   for   destitute   French,    1,925. 

Comfort  kits,   1,784. 

Button    bags,    100. 

Miscellaneous  articles,    1,000. 

Surgical   dressings,   30,826. 

The  classification  of  these  articles  is  as  follows: 

For  the  soldiers  in  camp  or  field:  Helmets,  417;  socks, 
1,602  pairs;  wristlets,  723;  sweaters,  1,479;  mufflers,  357. 
Total,  4,578. 

For  hospital  use :  Bed  jackets,  96 ;  bed  socks,  342 ;  bed 
shirts,  2,117;  pajamas,  1,054:  convalescent  robes,  424;  under- 
shirts. 369;  underdrawers,  333.  Total,  4,735. 

For  destitute  French:  Boys'  suits,  195;  children's  under- 
shirts, 336;  boys'  underwear,  839:  girls'  pinafores,  70;  chem- 
ise, 45;  blouses,  246;  petticoats,  224.  Total,  1,925. 

UNITS  OF  WORKERS 

The  Surgical  Dressings  department  was  com-' 
posed  of  five  units  of  workers,  each  consisting  of  at 
least  twelve  women  and  meeting  at  hours  that 
would  not  conflict  with  one  another.  The  workers 
wore  long  sanitary  white  aprons  and  Red  Cross 
caps  covering  the  hair,  with  a  red  cross  on  cap  and 
apron  for  the  supervisors.  It  was  so  arranged  that 
the  women  could  give  their  time  as  they  desired, 
but  none  gave  less  than  a  half  day  a  week.  Many 
gave  more.  The  units  were  under  the  direction  of 
the  following  named  supervisors  and  assistants: 

Unit  No.  1 — Mrs.  Theo.  Thompson,  supervisor; 
Mrs.  F.  R.  Dove,  assistant. 

Unit  No.  2 — Mrs.  Harry  Gundel finger,  super- 
visor; Miss  Ida  Diddea,  assistant. 

Unit  No.  3 — Mrs  Mate  Pollard,  supervisor:  Miss 
Edith  Garis,  Miss  Blanche  Syfert,  Miss  Katherine 
Patterson,  assistants. 

Unit  No.  4 — Mrs.  C.  R.  Mertens,  supervisor;  Mrs. 
Charles  Igo,  assistant. 


Unit  No.  5 — Miss  LaVone  Shoaff,  supervisor; 
Mrs.  F.  C.  Bolinger,  assistant. 

Substitute  supervisors  were  Mrs.  Leslie  Tallman, 
Mrs.  Frank  Parker  and  Mrs.  W.  S.  Middlesworth. 

Great  care  was  necessary  in  the  manufacture, 
handling  and  packing  of  the  surgical  dressings.  All 
of  these  manufactured  throughout  the  county  were 
sent  to  Shelbyville,  where  they  were  inspected  care- 
fully and  packed  according  to  prescribed  rules,  to 
reduce  to  the  zero  point  the  danger  of  insanitation. 
The  packers  were  Mrs.  W.  E.  Lowe  and  Miss  Mary 
Seaman. 

Several  tons  of  second  hand  clothing  was  gath- 
ered and  shipped  to  refugees.  At  one  time  there 
was  a  shipment  of  3.200  pounds,  and  later  shipments 
increased  the  total  by  more  than  2,000  pounds. 

Shipments  of  materials  for  use  in  France  and 
Belgium,  and  to  be  manufactured  into  garments  by 
the  women  of  those  countries,  are  still  being  for- 
warded by  the  Shelby  County  Red  Cross  Chapter 
and  its  branches,  which  continue  the  work  upon 
which  they  entered  more  than  two  years  ago. 

The  first  call  for  aid  came  to  the  Shelby  County 
Chapter  out  of  the  death-dealing  cyclone  that  swept 
over  Shelby  and  adjoining  counties  on  the  26th  of 
May,  1917.  The  local  Red  Cross  fund  was  swelled 
quickly  to  $1,100,  which  was  distributed  as  follows: 

To  Westervelt,  Shelby  County,  $200. 

To  Mattoon,  Coles  County,  $450. 

To   Charleston,   Coles   County,  $450. 

In  addition  to  the  cash  donated,  a  large  amount 
of  food  supplies  and  clothing  was  forthcoming,  and 
officers  and  members  of  the  Red  Cross,  as  well  as 
other  citizens,  gave  generously  of  their  personal 
service  in  alleviating  distress  at  the  stricken  points. 

SOME  NOTABLE  RED  CROSS  DATES 

Notable  dates  in  the  history  of  the  Shelby  County 
Red  Cross  Chapter  include  Tuesday,  Nov.  27,  1917: 
Saturday,  April  27.  1918;  Saturday,  May  25,  1918, 
and  Thursday,  April  24,  1919. 

On  the  first  date  the  Chapter  had  its  first  big 
Red  Cross  rally  for  the  entire  county.  The  meeting 
and  conference  were  held  at  the  First  Methodist 
church  in  Shelbyville  and  the  Red  Cross  headquar- 
ters, respectively,  the  latter  in  the  afternoon  and 
the  former  in  the  evening.  A  large  number  of 
(vomen  were  in  the  county  seat,  representing  prac- 
tically every  branch  in  the  county.  The  conference 
,vas  presided  over  by  Mrs.  Mollie  Isenberg.  Mrs. 
Geo.  B.  Rhoads  called  the  roll  of  Branches  and  con- 
ducted a  round  table.  Mrs.  Agnes  Palmer  of  Chi- 
cago talked  on  the  general  work  of  the  Red  Cross. 
Mrs.  George  Reinhart  of  Windsor,  a  registered  Red 
Cross  bandage  instructor,  talked  enlighteningly  on 
bandages  and  their  making.  Displays  were  made 
at  the  conference  of  many  finished  articles,  knitted 
and  sewed  by  various  Branches. 

Page   Twenty-Four 


In  the  evening  the  mass  meeting  at  the  church 
was  addressed  by  Mr.  Asher  R.  Cox,  field  repre- 
sentative of  the  Red  Cross  society,  who  had  been 
representing  this  country  in  the  foreign  field,  par- 
ticularly in  Germany.  He  graphically  described  the 
needs  of  the  work,  and  drew  a  direful  picture  of  the 
consequences  in  the  event  the  people  did  not  rally 
to  its  support.  Mrs.  Palmer  also  spoke  at  this 
meeting. 

THE  AUCTION 

On  Saturday,  April  27,  the  Chapter  held  an  auc- 
tion sale  on  the  streets  of  Shelbyville,  and  served 
a  cafeteria  dinner.  Among  the  many  things  put 
up  at  auction  were  two  Shetland  ponies,  numerous 
hogs,  calves  and  other  livestock.  The  auctioneers, 
who  cheerfully  gave  their  services  and  put  their  best 
efforts  into  the  selling,  were  Del  Bennett  of  Shel- 
byville, Hal  Bennett  of  Windsor,  T.  A.  Askins  of 
Lakewood,  Walter  Prosser  of  Clarksburg  and  Curt 
Wilson  of  Findlay.  The  receipts  of  the  sale  were 
over  $1,400,  and  a  second  session,  with  good  results, 
was  held  on  the  following  Saturday.  The  dinner 
netted  the  Red  Cross  $131.00. 

FIELD   DAY 

The  Red  Cross  Field  Day  was  held  Saturday. 
May  25.  1918.  Fifteen  thousand  peo'ple  assembled  in 
Shelbyville  for  the  celebration,  and  all  Branches  of 
the  county  participated  in  the  big  event.  With 
spectacular  parade,  concerts  by  the  famous  Beau- 
manoir  Commandery  Band  of  Decatur,  address 
by  Professor  Robert  T.  Herrick  of  the  University 
of  Chicago,  the  presence  of  two  aeroplanes  from 
Chanute  Field,  the  exhibit  of  the  great  war  picture, 
"The  Unbeliever."  and  many  other  interesting  fea- 
tures, the  day  passed  into  history  as  one  of  the 
red-letter  events  of  the  organization. 

The  parade  was  nearly  a  mile  in  length.  Floats, 
cleverly  wrought  to  depict  the  more  striking  of  the 
Red  Cross  posters,  the  Shelby  County  Red  Cross 
Chapter  and  Branches,  surgical  dressing  units,  the 
Boy  Scouts,  veterans  of  other  wars  and  the  women 
of  the  Relief  Corps,  various  lodges,  the  service  Hags 
of  the  churches  and  other  organizations  were  fea- 
tured in  the  procession  that  moved  through  the 
business  section  of  the  city  and  to  Forest  Park. 
Birma  Kinnamon  as  a  Red  Cross  knight,  mounted 
on  a  pure  white  steed  with  Red  Cross  caparison,  led 
the  procession,  and  was  immediately  followed  by 
"Old  Glory,"  borne  by  John  Wilburn,  former  color 
sergeant  of  the  130th  U.  S.  Infantry.  Following  the 
band,  J.  C.  Westervelt  and  Mrs.  M.  Isenberg,  chair- 
men of  the  Chapter  and  of  the  Woman's  Division, 
respectively,  led  the  other  units  of  the  procession, 
which  included  the  various  Branches,  decorated 
floats,  the  animated  Red  Cross  posters  and  other 
features. 


Perhaps  the  most  affecting  division  of  the  entire 
procession  was  that  composed  of  the  mothers  of 
soldiers  and  sailors.  Fifty-nine  of  them,  each  with 
a  service  flag  and  more  than  one  of  the  flags  bearing 
two  or  more  stars,  silent  testimony  to  the  sacri- 
fice of  the  mother  hearts,  were  in  line. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  and  practically  help- 
ful features  in  line  was  the  great  Elks'  flag,  15x24 
feet  in  size,  which  was  carried  by  the  Shelbyville 
lodge  and  into  which  was  cast  a  total  of  $125.45  as 
it  passed  through  the  lines  of  people.  Additional 
contributions  were  received  through  the  tagging 
system,  and  the  financial  returns  of  the  day,  turned 
into  the  Second  War  Fund  of  $25,000  asked  of  the 
county,  were  quite  satisfactory. 

In  addition  to  the  address  by  Professor  Herrick 
at  the  park,  there  were  exhibitions  by  the  aeroplanes, 
concerts  by  the  Beaumanoir  Commandery  Band,  the 
May  Pole  dance  by  the  high  school  girls,  and  the 
moving  picture. 

The  only  marring  feature  of  the  day  was  an  ac- 
cident in  which  Lieutenants  Cupp  and  Jeffries  fell 
a  distance  of  100  feet  with  their  aeroplane.  The 
latter  was  wrecked,  and  Lieutenant  Cupp  was 
slightly  hurt.  Jeffries  was  uninjured. 

DINNER  FOR  SOLDIERS 

On  Thursday,  April  24.  1919,  three  hundred  of 
Shelby  County's  returned  soldiers,  sailors  and  ma- 
rines were  guests  of  the  Red  Cross  at  a  sumptuous 
chicken  dinner,  as  a  feature  of  a  patriotic  demon- 
stration attending  the  visit  of  a  War  Relics  Exhibit 
train,  which  came  to  the  city  in  the  interests  of  the 
Victory  Liberty  Loan.  The  reception  to  the  sol- 
diers, initiated  by  the  Shelbyville  Commercial  Club 
and  cheerfully  participated  in  by  the  Red  Cross, 
was  a  happy  feature  of  the  day's  interesting  events. 
The  room  in  which  the  soldiers  dined  was  prettily 
decorated  with  the  "colors"  and  Victory  Loan  post- 
ers. The  "mess"  was  promptly  disposed  of,  and  in 
a  meeting  of  the  service  men  later  in  the  day  a  vote 
of  thanks  was  tendered  the  Red  Cross  for  the  splen- 
did treatment  accorded  by  that  organization. 

Following  the  dinner,  the  soldiers.  Commercial 
Club,  Victory  Loan  organization  and  others,  marched 
to  the  railroad  station  to  greet  the  War  Relics  train 
and  its  complement  of  59  men,  which  included  a 
military  band  and  details  of  soldiers  and  marines. 
A  whippet  tank  was  one  of  the  many  interesting  ex- 
hibits, and  this  was  prominent  in  the  parade  that 
was  made  through  the  streets,  preceding  the  pro- 
grams of  speeches  and  music  that  were  given  from 
platforms  erected  in  the  business  district.  The 
music  was  furnished  by  the  Ladies'  Victory  Loan 
Glee  Club,  the  Victory  Loan  Male  Quartet  and  the 
military  band.  The  speeches  were  delivered  by 
Judge  Fenton  W.  Booth  of  the  United  States  Court 
of  Claims,  Randall  Parrish,  the  noted  author,  Ser- 


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geant  M.  B.  Chrissie,  one  of  "Reilley's  Bucks,"  and 
several  returned  Shelby  County  soldiers. 

The  Red  Cross  was  given  unstinted  praise  for 
its  part  in  the  demonstration,  serving  as  it  did  an 
elaborate  chicken  dinner  without  cost.  Its  latest 
service  of  this  sort  was  on  the  occasion  of  a  re- 
ception to  the  soldiers  and  sailors  Oct.  15,  1919. 

Early  in  1918  the  Red  Cross  resorted  to  the 
monthly  payment  plan  of  raising  funds,  and  re- 
ceived a  generous  response  to  its  solicitation  of 
subscriptions  for  a  stated  sum  each  month  for  a 
definite  period  of  time.  Tn  January,  1918,  the  County 
Board  of  Supervisors  appropriated  $100.00  for  each 
of  the  Branches. 

CHRISTMAS  SEALS 

The  Christmas  Seals  campaign  was  waged  each 
year  in  the  county  seat  and  the  county  at  large. 
In  1917  the  sales  were  very  gratifying.  Incidents 
illustrating  the  alacrity  with  which  the  Seals  were 
purchased  include  the  following:  Miss  Catherine 
Anderson,  teacher  of  the  Empire  school  in  the  west- 
ern part  of  the  county,  originally  was  furnished  500 
Seals.  She  soon  ordered  1,000  more.  Miss  Mar- 
garet Welch  of  the  schools  in  Moweaqua,  where 
again  and  again  it  was  demonstrated  the  people  were 
100  per  cent  patriotic,  telephoned  to  headquarters 
for  2,700  Seals  additional  to  her  allotment.  Miss 
Hester  Clem  of  Ash  Grove  asked  for  a  500  per 
cent  increase  in  her  allotment.  Mrs.  Matthew  Maurer 
of  Rural  ordered  double  the  number  she  first  re- 
ceived, Windsor  called  for  an  additional  2.000,  and 
Findlay  3,000. 

The  campaign  period  showed  a  heavy  increase 
in  the  sales.  In  fact,  the  advance  was  2,000  per 
cent  over  the  sales  of  1916.  This  was  due  largely 
to  the  fact  that  the  selling  campaign  was  thor- 
oughly organized  and  carried  into  all  parts  of  the 
county.  School  children  alone  sold  44,755  Seals. 
In  the  school  contest  the  Strasburg  school,  of  which 
Prof.  E.  X.  Norris  was  principal,  won  the  city 
school  prize  with  an  average  of  11  13/17  sales 
to  the  pupil,  while  in  the  rural  contest  Empire 
school,  near  Assumption,  of  which  Miss  Catherine 
O.  Anderson  was  teacher,  won  by  an  average  of 
48  stamps  per  pupil. 

Mrs.  J.  C.  Coplin,  a  member  of  the  Shelby  County 
Chapter,  early  in  the  service  originated  an  improved 
helmet.  The  new  feature  was  a  flap  which  could 
be  placed  over  the  face  to  protect  it  from  cold, 
dampness  or  the  encroachments  of  the  festive  rat 
with  which  the  trenches  were  said  to  be  infested, 
while  the  soldier  slept  or  rested.  When  not  so 
used,  the  flap  was  laid  up  over  the  head,  forming  a 
second  crown  and  held  in  place  by  a  fastener.  The 
plan  was  used  extensively  in  the  making  of  helmets, 
not  only  in  Shelby  County,  but  elsewhere. 

AX  EPITOME 

An  epitome  of  the  work  of  the  Shelby  County 
Chapter,  American  Red  Cross,  and  its  Branches, 
indicates  a  grand  total  membership  of  6,968,  $87,- 
898.85  in  money  raised,  921  Christmas  boxes  sent 
overseas  in  1918,  and  the  making  of  28,850  gar- 
ments and  other  articles  for  the  soldiers  and  French 
refugees. 

STILL  AT  WORK 

The  Red  Cross  is  still  serving  the  men  who  gave 
themselves  to  the  saving  of  the  world.  Since  the 
war  closed  several  hundred  dollars  have  been  ex- 
pended in  the  county  for  financial  assistance  to 
families  of  soldiers,  and  much  else  has  been  and 
Still  is  being  done  for  the  returned  service  men. 


In  this  work  the  Shelby  County  War  Historians 
have  co-operated  extensively,  initiating  and  carrying 
on  for  several  months  the  free  information  bureau 
and  the  taking  up  of  many  matters,  the  scope  of 
which  covers  allotments  and  allowances,  compen- 
sation, back  pay,  bonus,  reissue  of  clothing,  con- 
version of  insurance,  decorations,  registration  of 
discharges  and  citations,  employment,  Victory  but- 
tons and  bars,  vocational  training  and  general  in- 
formation and  advice  for  all  service  men.  The  fill- 
ing out  of  all  papers  to  secure  the  above  was  done 
by  the  War  Historians  up  to  Nov.  1.  when  the 
work  was  definitely  taken  over  by  the  Red  Cross. 
Claims  for  more  than  $30,000  were  filed  for  the  men 
by  the  War  Historians,  in  co-operation  with  the 
Red  Cross  and  American  Legion,  the  Historians 
advancing  the  funds  for  the  service. 

This  service  is  now  being  performed  by  the  Red 
Cross  through  its  Home  Service  Department,  under 
the  direction  of  the  secretary.  Miss  Edna  Conn,  who 
recently  took  a  six-weeks  training  course  in  methods 
of  handling  this  work.  Through  this  department, 
offices  of  which  are  maintained  in  the  court  house 
at  Shelbyville,  the  Red  Cross  is  keeping  in  touch 
with  disabled  soldiers,  compiling  their  hospital  rec- 
ords and  reporting  to  headquarters  on  their  condi- 
tion, and  in  many  other  ways  maintaining  the  repu- 
tation of  the  American  Red  Cross  as  "The  Greatest 
Mother  in  the  World." 

THE  WORK  OF  THE  BRANCHES 

A  detailed  record  of  the  Branches,  with  their  of- 
t'cers,  membership,  work  accomplished,  and  other 
features,  follows: 

ASH  GROVE  BRANCH 

The  Ash  Grove  Branch  was  organized  Xov.  19, 
1917,  on  which  date  a  Woman's  Auxiliary  also  was 
formed.  The  officers  of  the  Branch  were:  Chair- 
man, Mrs.  Thomas  Clawson,  Windsor;  vice  chair- 
man. Miss  Edna  Storm,  Windsor;  secretary.  Miss 
May  Templeton.  Gays;  treasurer,  Mrs.  J.  J.  Thomas, 
Cays.  Mrs.  Clawson,  Miss  Templeton  and  Mrs. 
Thomas  also  were  chairman,  secretary  and  treas- 
urer, respectively,  of  the  Woman's  Auxiliary.  There 
was  a  membership  of  160,  and  the  sum  of  $1,237.34 
was  raised,  while  13  comfort  kits  were  sent  to  Red 
Cross  headquarters  and  the  manufactured  articles 
numbered  243,  with  175  additional  knitted  pieces, 
including  42  sweaters.  24  wristlets,  seven  helmets 
and  102  pairs  of  socks. 

OCOXEE  BRAXCH 

The  Oconee  Branch  was  organized  Xov.  5,  1917. 
with  Mrs.  Lou  Welch  chairman,  Mrs.  Laura  Spur- 
rier secretary,  and  Miss  Catherine  Eckolt  treasurer. 
It  grew  to  a  membership  of  270.  The  Branch  raised 
a  total  of  $2,426.65,  which  was  expended  for  the 
benefit  of  the  "boys."  Thirty  kits  were  furnished 
the  soldiers  direct,  15  Christmas  boxes  were  sent 
overseas,  and  537  garments  were  made.  The  Branch 
has  four  Junior  Red  Cross  organizations,  with  <> 
membership  of  something  like  50. 

COWDEN  BRAXCH 

The  Cowden  Branch  was  organized  Sept.  14,  1917, 
with  A.  W.  Moore  as  chairman,  Mrs.  R.  X.  Thomp- 
son secretary  and  B.  E.  Prater  treasurer.  Xine 
hundred  members  were  enrolled,  with  six  sub- 
scribers, and  the  sum  of  $3,611.81  was  raised.  Thir- 
ty-seven Christmas  boxes  were  sent  overseas,  and 
982  garments  were  manufactured.  The  Branch  made 
and  partially  rilled  40  comfort  kits  at  one  time,  but 
all  its  supplies  were  sent  through  the  Chapter  head- 
quarters, according  to  orders. 


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STRASBURG  BRANCH 

The    Strasburg    Branch    was    organized    in    May, 

1917,  with  Henry  Faster  as  chairman  and  Edwin  H. 
Faster  as  secretary  and  treasurer.     The   Branch  at- 
tained a  membership  of  about  250,  and  was  one  of 
only  two  Branches  in  the  county  which  went  "over 
the  top"  in  the  Red  Cross  drive.     A  total  of  $4,000 
was  raised  and  much   other  splendid  work  done. 

On  the  12th  of  September,  1917,  a  Woman's  Aux- 
iliary was  formed.  Mrs.  E.  N.  Norris  was  made 
chairman,  and  Mrs.  J.  E.  Weber  secretary  and  treas- 
urer. The  membership  was  57,  and  $2,846.71  was 
raised  for  the  relief  fund.  Thirty  comfort  kits 
were  furnished  the  boys  direct;  eight  sweaters  also 
were  made  and  given  soldiers;  977  knitted  articles, 
including  washcloths,  were  manufactured,  and  4,048 
surgical  dressings  and  72  dozen  trench  candles  also 
were  the  work  of  the  busy  hands  of  these  women. 
The  receipts  of  the  auxiliary  came  from  various 
sources,  among  them  being  the  following:  A  car- 
load of  hogs,  donated,  shipped  and  sold  on  the  Chi- 
cago market  for  $1.200;  a  Red  Cross  sale,  amounting 
to  $500.00;  a  chicken  fry,  several  hundred  dollars; 
a  lecture  at  Grace  Lutheran  church  by  a  Camp 
pastor,  with  free  will  offering  amounting  to  $81.25, 
which  was  donated  to  the  Red  Cross;  an  entertain- 
ment by  St.  Paul  Lutheran  young  people,  the  pro- 
ceeds of  which  were  given  the  Branch;  a  play  by 
the  young  people  of  the  village;  quilts  made  by  St. 
Paul's  Ladies'  Aid,  and  sold.  After  the  war  was 
over,  the  Branch  purchased  $1,200  worth  of  Liberty 
Bonds,  and  still  has  $132  on  hand. 

TODD'S  POINT  BRANCH 

The  Todd's  Point  Branch  was  organized  May  17, 

1918,  with   the   following  named  officers:    Chairman, 
Mary  C.  Perry,  Bethany;  vice-chairman,  Frieda  Mar- 
tin,  Bethany;   secretary,   Clara   B.   Nuttall,    Bethany; 
treasurer,   Zoe  Janes,   Bethany.     The   Branch   had  a 
membership  of  15,  and  raised  $65.00,  furnished  four 
sweaters,   three  helmets  and  eight  pairs  of  socks  to 
soldiers  direct,  and  made  10  garments. 

PRAIRIE  HOME  BRANCH 

The  Prairie  Home  Branch  was  organized  Aug.  11, 
1917,  with  the  following  named  officers:  Chairman, 
DeForest  Baird,  Bethany;  secretary,  Myrtle  Lindley, 
Bethany;  chairman  of  the  Women's  work,  Mrs.  W. 
B.  Lindley,  Bethany.  The  Branch  had  a  member- 
ship of  114,  and  raised  $429.25,  sent  four  Christmas 
boxes  overseas  and  manufactured  the  following  gar- 
ments: Forty-four  sweaters,  9  pairs  socks,  6  pairs 
wristlets,  11  mufflers,  25  pillow  cases,  20  skirts,  2  hel- 
mets, 25  underskirts,  5  pairs  drawers,  27  Belgian  pin- 
afores. 


CLARKSBURG  BRANCH 

The  Clarksburg  Branch  was  organized  in  the  fall 
of  1917,  and  had  an  annual  membership  of  197.  The 
total  amount  of  money  raised  was  $2,143.62,  while 
two  Christmas  boxes  were  sent  overseas,  23  sweaters 
were  furnished  soldiers  direct,  and  479  garments 
were  made.  The  officers  of  the  Branch  are:  Chair- 
man, Mrs.  J.  A.  Hickman;  secretary,  Miss  Mell 
Compton;  treasurer,  Charles  Flenner.  Leverett 
Compton  also  held  an  official  position.  The  Branch 
held  a  very  profitable  auction  sale  at  Clarksburg  on 
June  19,  1918,  when  a  considerable  sum  of  money 
was  raised. 

SIGEL  BRANCH 

Sigel  patriots  organized  a  regular  Branch  and 
a  Woman's  Auxiliary  on  the  same  date,  November 
21,  1918.  with  a  combined  membership  of  360.  The 
officers  of  the  regular  Branch  were:  Chairman,  Dr. 
H.  C.  Heuck;  vice  chairman,  Mrs.  William  Paxton: 
secretary,  Mrs.  H.  C.  Heuck;  treasurer,  S.  S.  Bigler. 
Officers  of  the  Auxiliary  were:  Chairmen,  Mrs.  Wil- 
liam Paxton  and  Mrs.  Lou  Behrman:  secretary, 
Miss  Louise  Mense;  other  officers,  Mrs.  Julius  Han- 
sen  and  Mrs.  George  R.  Dunlap.  The  sum  of  $1,- 
892.28  was  raised.  Sixteen  Christmas  boxes  were 
sent  overseas,  25  filled  comfort  kits  were  furnished 
soldiers  direct,  and  291  sewed  garments,  164  knitted 
garments  and  3,985  surgical  dressings  were  manu- 
factured. 

WESTERVELT  BRANCH 

Mrs.  W.  C.  Kelley  and  the  Reverend  N.  H.  Rob- 
ertson of  Shelbyville  were  the  organizers  of  the 
Westervelt  Branch,  on  Nov.  14,  1917.  Miss  Rolfa 
Barrickman  and  Mrs.  Paul  Christman  were  elected 
chairman  and  secretary,  respectively,  and  later  were 
succeeded  by  Mrs.  H.  M.  Jackson  as  chairman  and 
Miss  Bessie  E.  Fritz  as  secretary.  The  Branch  had 
a  very  satisfactory  membership,  and  raised  a  total  of 
$3,144.19.  Three  hundred  thirty-five  garments  were 
made,  and  a  number  of  Christmas  boxes  were  sent 
overseas.  The  number  of  these  could  not  be  fur- 
nished by  the  secretary,  as  they  were  sent  through 
the  Chapter  headquarters  at  Shelbyville. 

TOWER  HILL  BRANCH 

Sept.  14,  1917,  was  the  date  of  the  organization  of 
the  Tower  Hill  Branch,  of  which  the  following 
named  persons  were  officers:  Chairman,  Mrs.  Min- 
nie B.  Eiler;  vice  chairman,  Mrs.  Eva  Cannon; 
secretary,  Mrs.  Delia  Werstheimer;  secretary-treas- 
urer of  Hospital  Supplies  Department,  Mrs.  Julia 
Maze:  treasurer,  H.  H.  Runkel.  The  Branch  had  a 
membership  of  445,  and  raised  $1,768.76,  sent  23 
Christmas  boxes  overseas  and  manufactured  885 
garments,  of  which  463  were  sewed  and  422  knitted. 


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TROWBRIDGE  BRANCH 

The  Trowbridge  Branch  was  organized  Sept.  22, 
1917,  and  attained  a  membership  of  200.  The  of- 
ficers were:  Chairman,  Mrs.  Cleve  Rogers:  secre- 
tary, Miss  Gertrude  McClory;  other  officers,  Maine 
Quinn  and  Annie  McClory.  The  Branch  raised 
$910.63,  sent  11  Christmas  boxes  overseas  and  made 
1,025  garments.  Among  the  social  activities  of  this 
Branch  was  a  reception  given  the  returned  soldiers 
and  sailors  of  Big  Spring  township,  when  about 
thirty  of  those  who  had  seen  service  were  enter- 
tained at  a  social  and  dance,  with  nearly  600  per- 
sons present  to  honor  them. 

DOLLVILLE  BRANCH 

The  Dollville  Branch  in  Rural  township  was  or- 
ganized Nov.  6,  1917,  with  the  following  named  offi- 
cers: Chairman.  Mrs.  Mathias  Maurer,  Tower  Hill; 
vice  chairman,  Mrs.  Andrew  Metzger,  Tower  Hill; 
secretary,  Mrs.  John  Weber,  Tower  Hill:  treasurer, 
Mrs.  Chris  Munzenmaier,  Pana.  The  Branch  had  a 
membership  of  197,  and  raised  $1,462.48,  sent  four 
Christmas  boxes  overseas  and  made  422  garments. 

FAXCHER  BRANCH 

The  Fancher  Branch  was  organized  in  May,  1918. 
Its  officers  were:  Chairman,  Mrs.  William  Marsh; 
secretary,  Mrs.  H.  O.  Clausen;  treasurer,  Henry  Da- 
vidson. The  Branch  had  a  membership  of  29,  and 
raised  $168.33  and  made  48  garments. 

STEWARDSON  BRANCH 

Stewardson  had  a  regular  Branch  of  the  Shelby 
County  Chapter,  and  a  Woman's  Auxiliary  as  well. 
Both  were  organized  June  8.  1917.  The  officers  of 
the  former  were:  Chairman,  Mrs.  William  Denn: 
vice  chairman,  Mrs.  J.  S.  Belles;  secretary.  Miss  Rose 
Streng;  treasurer,  Mrs.  A.  C.  Mautz.  The  officers 
of  the  Auxiliary  were:  Chairman,  Mrs.  Edith  Wil- 
son, Stewardson;  secretary,  Miss  Grace  Spain,  Trow- 
bridge. The  membership  of  the  regular  Branch  was 
369,  and  of  the  Auxiliary  17.  The  receipts  from  the 
membership  fund  amounted  to  $2,481.94,  while  the 
sum  of  $1,470.29  was  raised  in  addition,  making  the 
grand  total  received,  $3,952.23.  Fifty-five  Christmas 
boxes  were  sent  overseas,  and  709  garments  were 
made. 

HERRICK  BRANCH 

The  Herrick  Branch  was  organized  in  October, 
1917,  and  at  the  same  time  a  Woman's  Auxiliary  was 
formed.  Of  the  former,  C.  B.  Latimer  was  chair- 
man, I.  R.  Holt  secretary  and  G.  W.  Kelley  treas- 
urer, while  of  the  latter  Mrs.  C.  B.  Latimer  was 
chairman,  Mrs.  lone  Burrus  secretary  and  Mrs. 
Alice  Xowlein  treasurer.  Splendid  work  was  done 
by  these  organizations.  The  sum  of  $900  was  raised, 
400  garments  were  made,  and  24  Christmas  boxes 
were  sent  to  boys  overseas.  The  membership  of  the 
Branch  was  197. 


WINDSOR  BRANCH 

Windsor  organized  a  Branch  of  the  Shelby 
County  Chapter,  American  Red  Cross,  on  May  15, 
1917,  and  on  July  28  of  the  same  year  added  a  Wom- 
an's Auxiliary  to  the  great  force  for  the  accom- 
plishment of  war  work.  The  officers  of  the  regular 
Branch  were:  Chairman,  Dr.  A.  B.  Storm:  vice 
chairman,  C.  H.  Sexson;  secretary,  Lucille  Reich; 
treasurer,  E.  G.  Munsell.  The  officers  of  the  Aux- 
iliary were:  Chairman,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Barton;  vice 
chairman,  Mrs.  G.  E.  Dunscomb:  secretary,  Leota 
Garvin;  treasurer,  E.  G.  Munsell.  The  membership 
of  the  Branch  was  394,  and  of  the  Auxiliary,  50.  The 
cash  receipts  of  the  former  were  $1,112.64,  and  of 
the  latter,  $1,810.92,  the  Woman's  Auxiliary  exceed- 
ing the  regular  Branch  by  $698.28.  Christmas  boxes 
were  sent  individually,  and  five  sweaters,  one  scarf 
and  two  helmets  were  furnished  direct  to  soldiers, 
while  a  total  of  4,086  garments  were  made. 

YANTISVILLE  BRANCH 

The  Yantisville  Branch  was  organized  Nov.  15, 
1917,  with  Mrs.  J.  M.  Yantis,  Findlay,  as  chairman, 
Miss  Laura  Belle  Syfert,  Findlay,  as  secretary,  and 
Miss  Hazel  Bateman,  Findlay,  as  treasurer.  The 
membership  roll  bore  the  names  of  166  persons.  The 
sum  of  $789.93  was  raised,  five  Christmas  boxes  were 
sent  overseas,  and  143  knitted  articles  and  152  sewed 
garments  were  manufactured. 

FINDLAY  BRANCH 

The  Findlay  Branch  was  organized  July  13,  1917, 
and  was  aggressively  active  from  the  first.  The  offi- 
cers were:  Chairman,  Dr.  A.  W.  Askins;  vice  chair- 
man, Mrs.  John  Cribbet:  secretary,  Miss  Mabel 
Combs;  treasurer,  Mrs.  William  M.  Pogue.  The 
Branch  had  245  annual  members,  one  life  member, 
one  contributing  member,  and  three  subscribers. 
Twenty-one  Christmas  boxes  were  sent  overseas,  and 
a  total  of  2,920  articles  of  wearing  apparel,  bandages, 
kits,  etc.,  were  manufactured.  The  Branch  raised 
$2,731.28.  using  unique  methods  from  time  to  time  to 
swell  the  fund.  During  the  Findlay  Communitv 
Festival,  Oct.  24-27,  1917,  the  Branch  netted  $305.12 
from  the  sale  of  Red  Cross  tags,  donations  and  the 
like.  One  feature  of  the  money-raising  campaign 
consisted  of  the  carrying  of  a  large  sheet,  with  the 
Red  Cross  emblem,  through  the  streets  for  dona- 
tions; another  was  an  auction  sale  where  two  pounds 
of  butter  sold  for  $6.00,  a  white  lamb  for  $70,  a  black 
lamb  for  $100.00,  and  a  Red  Cross  quilt,  made  by 
Miss  Edith  Alward  of  Todd's  Point,  for  $9.25.  On 
June  8,  1918,  an  auction  sale  was  held  in  the  Find- 
lay  park.  Girls  dressed  in  Red  Cross  uniforms  sold 
refreshments  from  a  stand,  and  the  stand  and  auc- 
tion netted  the  Branch  $1,396.34.  At  the  Com- 
munity Festival,  Oct.  12,  1918,  a  Red  Cross  quilt 
made  by  the  women  of  Forrest  School  District  was 
sold  and  resold  three  times,  bringing  a  total  of 


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$135.00.  Before  and  after  the  sale  girls  carried  the 
quilt  through  the  streets  and  received  $200.00  in 
contributions  thrown  into  it.  Red  Cross  benefits 
were  held  in  several  of  the  country  schools. 

LAKEWOOD  BRANCH 

The  Lakewood  Branch,  with  the  Woman's  Aux- 
iliary, was  organized  July  2,  1917,  and  attained  a 
membership  of  169.  Clyde  Foor,  Charles  T.  Bow- 
man and  Dr.  J.  H.  Eddy  were  chairman,  secretary 
and  treasurer,  respectively,  of  the  Branch.  Mrs. 
Mary  Bowman  was  made  chairman  of  the  Woman's 
Auxiliary,  and  later  was  succeeded  by  Mrs.  Dollie 
Specht.  Mrs.  Bertha  Askins  was  the  first  secretary, 
and  later  this  office  was  held  by  Mrs.  Leila  Newkirk. 
Mrs.  Mary  Eddy  was  chairman  of  the  cutting  de- 
partment, and  in  the  later  months  practically  the  en- 
tire burden  of  the  Red  Cross  work  in  this  community 
has  rested  on  her  and  her  husband,  Dr.  J.  H.  Eddy. 

The  Lakewood  Branch  raised  a  total  of  $1,085, 
sent  five  Christmas  boxes  overseas,  and  made  and 
forwarded  to  headquarters  in  Shelbyville  about  500 
knitted  and  sewed  articles.  One  of  the  activities  of 
this  Branch  was  a  Red  Cross  sale,  conducted  in  the 
summer  of  1918,  the  receipts  of  which  were  in  the 
neighborhood  of  a  thousand  dollars. 


MOWEAQUA  BRANCH 

The  Moweaqua  Branch,  organized  May  31,  1917, 
and  with  a  Woman's  Auxiliary  formed  at  the  same 
time,  has  the  county  record,  outside  of  Shelbyville, 
for  the  amount  of  funds  raised  for  the  work  of  the 
Red  Cross.  Moweaqua's  total  cash  donations 
amounted  to  $7,978.06,  of  which  $6,674.61  was  derived 
from  a  Red  Cross  sale  on  May  4,  1918.  The  mem- 
bership of  the  Moweaqua  Branch  the  first  year  of 
its  organization  was  438,  while  in  the  second  year 
it  was  266.  Fifty-three  Christmas  boxes  were  sent 
overseas,  many  sweaters,  helmets,  socks  and  other 
articles  were  furnished  the  soldiers  direct,  while 
1,000  garments  were  made.  The  Branch  has  the 
distinction  of  sending  two  nurses  into  the  field,  one 
of  them  across  seas  and  the  other  into  the  home 
service.  These  are  Miss  Minnie  Snyder  and  Miss 
Ethel  Yantis,  whose  records  are  given  elsewhere  in 
this  volume.  The  officers  of  the  regular  Branch 
were:  Chairman,  Dr.  J.  L.  Sparling;  secretary,  Miss 
Aileen  Day;  treasurer,  K.  R.  Snyder.  The  officers 
of  the  Woman's  Auxiliary  were:  Chairman,  Mrs 
B.  F.  Stults;  secretary,  Miss  Aileen  Day;  treasurer, 
Miss  Mattie  Snell. 


W.  H.  TAYLOR  J.  W.  BAILEY     GEO.  E.  DUNSCOMB  MRS.  ROSE  WORLEY      FRED  PLOG     I.  S.  STORM     T.  B.  SHOAFF 


The  Press  in  Wartime 


The  press  of  Shelby  County  fulfilled  its  mission 
nobly  in  wartime.  Without  exception  the  thirteen 
newspapers  of  the  county  lined  up  solidly  behind 
every  project  that  had  for  its  purpose  the  welfare  and 
encouragement  of  the  "boys,"  the  heartening  of  the 
folks  at  home,  the  smashing  of  autocracy  and  the 
making  of  the  world  safe  for  democracy.  These 
newspapers  were: 

The  News,   Moweaqua. 

The  Enterprise,    Findlay. 

The  Gazette,  Windsor. 

The  Advocate,    Sigel. 

The  Clipper,   Stewardson. 

The  Herald,   Strasburg. 

The  Reflector,   Cowden. 

The  Journal,   Herrick. 

The  Breeze,  Tower  Hill. 

The  Democrat,  Shelbyville. 

The  Shelby   County   Leader,   Shelbyville. 

The  Shelbyville  Union,  Shelbyville. 

The  Daily  Union,  Shelbyville. 

It  is  a  well  recognized  fact  that  these  thirteen 
newspapers  did  more  than  any  other  one  agency  to 
maintain  the  morale  of  the  great  civilian  army  of 
Shelby  County,  and  also  were  a  leading  factor  in 
the  sale  of  bonds  and  raising  of  funds  in  whatever 
campaign  was  ordered  by  the  government  or  great 
beneficent  organization. 

The  newspapers  gave  thousands  of  dollars  worth 
of  space  in  the  aggregate  to  propaganda  and  pub- 
licity, without  which  the  county  would  have  failed 
abjectly  in  playing  its  full  part  in  the  great  scheme 


of  the  World  War  and  war  work.  Without  stint 
the  publishers  opened  their  columns  to  reading  mat- 
ter and  display  advertisements  setting  forth  the  ne- 
cessities of  the  government  and  to  the  dissemination 
of  information  and  orders  it  desired  the  public  to 
receive.  The  various  Liberty  Loans,  the  War  Sav- 
ing Stamps,  the  conservation  of  fuel,  the  increased 
production  of  foodstuffs,  the  conservation  of  flour 
and  sugar,  the  calls  sfor  volunteers  for  both  military 
and  civilian  service — these  and  other  interests  of  the 
government  were  "played  up"  in  the  press  with  a 
prodigality  of  space  that  marked  the  publishers  as 
patriots,  indeed,  ready  to  contribute  of  their  "stock 
in  trade"  in  a  measure  beyond  the  average  class  of 
men  in  bringing  success  to  the  allied  arms. 

Nor  was  their  contribution  of  valuable  space  made 
to  the  government  alone.  The  Red  Cross,  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.,  the  United  War  Work,  the  Salvation  Army, 
and  the  many  other  institutions  that  served  in  any 
measure  to  help  the  American  and  Allied  armies  to 
"carry  on"  to  a  successful  consummation,  had  free 
access  to  the  columns  of  the  Shelby  County  press 
with  their  appeals  for  money  or  workers. 

In  a  few  of  the  drives,  it  is  true,  an  advertising 
fund  was  provided;  but  in  the  great  majority  of  these 
campaigns  the  newspapers  were  asked  to  contribute 
space  without  hope  of  monetary  reward,  and  right 
splendidly  did  they  meet  the  demand  by  their  ready 
contribution  of  space. 


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V 


A  Psalm  of  Thanksgiving 


VICTORY    hath    attended    our    arms,    O    my    Country,    and    Triumph 
percheth  upon  our  banners.     The    enemy    hath    been    vanquished   and 
goeth  no  more  up  and  down  the   Earth,   seeking  whom  he  may  slay 
or  what  nations  he  may  conquer. 

I  look  out  upon  the  fair  lands  of  the  U.  S.  A.,  and  mine  eyes  behold  no 
devastated  fields  nor  ruined  villages. 

My  heart  is  glad  when  I  hear  the  happy  laughter  and  observe  the  smiling 
faces  of  little  children,  whose  songs  have  not  been  stilled,  whose  hands 
have  not  been  severed  and  who  have  two  feet  upon  which  to  run  and  jump 
and  play. 

My  soul  riseth  up  within  me  in  a  great  thanksgiving  of  praise  because 
our  wives  and  daughters  have  no  need  to  hang  their  heads  nor  seek  to  hide 
themselves  because  of  the  unspeakable  lechery  of  the  ravishing  Huns. 

I  rejoice  exceedingly  in  my  heart  that  our  brave  sons,  with  a  forgetful- 
ness  of  self,  with  high  ideals  and  patriotic  fervor  answered  the  call  of 
Humanity  and  followed  "Old  Glory"  to  the  aid  of  their  stricken  brothers 
across  the  sea,  where  with  minimum  sacrifice  of  life,  and  maiming  of  body 
they  smashed  the  Monster  of  War  and  gave  assurance  that  Liberty  and 
Justice  and  Peace  shall  not  perish  from  the  earth. 

Verily,  my  heart  uttereth  a  Paen  of  Praise  for  the  valor  of  our  boys 
and  the  cessation  of  war. 

In  thankfulness,  therefore,  before  my  God,  as  freely  as  we  gave  our 
sons  to  the  service  of  the  World,  I  shall  pour  my  Gold  upon  the  altar  of 
my  country,  that  the  cost  in  dollars  of  the  campaign  that  caused  the  war 
to  cease  at  least  three  years  before  the  end  could  otherwise  have  been 
expected  and  myriads  of  our  precious  boys  to  be  brought  home  alive,  shall 
be  paid  and  the  integrity  of  our  nation  be  maintained. 

Gladly,  cheerfully,  thankfully  I  Will  See  It  Through. 

The  Thanksgiving  Victory  Loan 


Written  by  D.   Leslie  Davis 

Director  of  Publicity,  Shelbyville,  Illinois 


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V 


Published  here  at  the  special  request  of  the  Victory  Loan  Chairman 


Page    Thirty 


E.  G.  MUNSELL 


LIBERTY  LOAN  CHAIRMEN 
O.  W.  WALKER 


GEO.  B.  HERRICK 


THE  LIBERTY  LOANS 


Four  and  a  quarter  million  dollars  was  Shelb\ 
County's  response  to  the  United  States  government's 
request  for  loans  of  cash  with  which  to  finance  its 
preparations  for  and  conduct  of  the  war  and  to  ex- 
tend credit  to  the  sorely-pressed  and  all  but  bank- 
rupt Allies.  Through  the  five  popular  loans  the 
people  of  this  county  poured  out  their  golden  store 
unstintedly  in  the  purchase  of  Liberty  Bonds,  in  ad- 
dition to  their  heavy  purchases  of  War  Savings 
Stamps  and  their  free-will  gifts  to  the  various  hu- 
manitarian organizations  through  which  war  work 
was  being  done. 

It  must  be  admitted  that  in  the  First  and  Second 
loans  the  spirit  of  the  people  had  not  yet  arisen  to 
the  point  where  they  were  whole-heartedly  back  of 
the  bond  flotations,  and  at  the  end  of  each  of  these 
campaigns,  both  of  them  in  1917,  there  was  a  defi- 
ciency in  the  quota  allotted  to  Shelby  County.  By 
the  spring  of  1918,  however,  with  American  soldiers 
in  a  steady  stream  pouring  into  Europe  and  America 
participating  actively  in  the  maneuvers  in  the  war 
zone,  men  and  women  of  all  classes  and  varied 
financial  conditions  were  ready  to  back  their  govern- 
ment with  their  money  and  from  then  on  Uncle  Sam 
asked  nothing  he  did  not  get. 

THE  FIRST  LOAN 

The  First  Liberty  Loan  was  floated  in  midsum- 
mer of  1917,  the  drive  taking  place  officially  between 
the  llth  and  18th  of  June,  though  an  extension  of 
time  was  granted  in  order  to  clean  up  the  work.  In 
Shelby  County  Geo.  B.  Herrick,  cashier  of  the  Citi- 
zens National  Bank  of  Shelbyville,  was  appointed 
chairman  of  the  campaign.  The  Shelby  County 
quota  was  placed  at  $300,000. 

The  organization  was  not  extensive,  yet  there 
were  willing  workers  in  all  parts  of  the  county.  The 
drive  was  handled  principally  from  Shelbyville,  how- 
ever, Chairman  Herrick,  representatives  of  the  other 
banks  and  Boy  Scouts  visiting  various  sections  in  the 
interest  of  the  loan.  The  city  of  Shelbyville  had  a 
working  organization  in  the  various  wards,  the  men 
and  women  composing  the  several  ward  committees 
being  as  follows: 


O.  ,W.  Walker 
E.  E.  Herron 


George   C.    Bolinger 
C.    M.    Duncan 


John   Morehead 
Frank    C.    Read 


N.    H.    Robertson 
O.   P.   Miles 


FIRST   WARD 

John    M.    Heslin 
Mrs.   H.    E.    Cook 
Mrs.   W.    E.    Lowe 

SECOND    WARD 

Mrs.    Theo.    Thompson 
Mrs.   F.   C.   Bolinger 
John  A.  Tracy 

THIRD  WARD 

Miss    Stella    Gregory 
Miss  Lois  Fisher 
Carl   F.   Lauer 

FOURTH  WARD 

Miss    Georgie   T.    Hopkins 
Mrs.    Delia  Miller 
B.    S.    Yost 


A  house  to  house  canvass  was  made  in  Shelby- 
ville June  12  and  13,  the  value  of  which  was  seen  in 
the  fact  that  of  the  total  amount  subscribed  in  the 
county,  $126,300  was  taken  in  Shelbyville.  The 
grand  total  for  the  county  was  $260,550,  taken  largely 
by  and  through  the  following  named  banks: 

SHELBYVILLE 

First  National  Bank  and  Shelby  Loan  and  Trust 

Company    $65,300 

Citizens    National    Bank " 25,000 

Shelby   County   State    Bank ,.    35,500 


MOWEAQUA 

Ayars    Brothers,    Bankers 

First    National    Bank 

V.   Snyder  &   Company,   Bankers... 


2,000 

10,500 

28,600 

WINDSOR 

Commercial   State   Bank    50,000 

Citizens    State    Bank    3,000 

COWDEN 

First    National    Bank    2,000 

State   Bank  of  Cowden    200 

OTHER  BANKS 

The  Strasburg  Bank,   Strasburg   1,000 

Farmers  &  Merchants   Bank  of  Stewardson 16,000 

The  Tower  Hill  Bank,  Tower  Hill 1,400 

First   National   Bank,   Westervelt 12,500 

One  Bank  at  Lakewood 50 

Shelby   County's   subscription   to   the   First   Loan 
was  about  82  per  cent,  of  its  quota  of  $300,000. 


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THE  SECOND  LOAN 

Geo.  B.  Herrick's  splendid  work  as  chairman  of 
the  First  Liberty  Loan  campaign  in  Shelby  County 
was  recognized  in  his  appointment  as  chairman  of 
the  Second  Liberty  Loan  organization,  when  in  the 
fall  of  1917  the  county  was  asked  to  purchase  $1,050,- 
525  worth  of  the  government's  big  bond  issue  of 
$3,000,000,000.  The  first  public  meeting  concerning 
the  bond  drive  was  held  at  the  First  National  Bank 
on  Thursday,  Sept.  27,  when  Mr.  K.  W.  Moore,  a 
representative  of  the  Federal  Reserve  Bank,  con- 
ferred with  and  instructed  local  workers. 

Wednesday,  Oct.  24,  was  set  aside  as  "National 
Liberty  Day,"  and  the  drive  proper  continued  from 
Oct.  1  to  Oct.  27.  Well  before  the  opening  of  the 
campaign  the  forces  in  Shelbyville  and  Shelby  County 
were  well  organized.  The  women,  rallying  to  the  call 
of  the  government,  threw  themselves  into  the  work 
with  a  will,  and  the  Boy  Scouts  actively  participated 
in  solicitation  and  bond  sales.  The  Shelbyville  Free 
Public  Library  and  Reading  Rooms  also  gave  assist- 
ance. Every  book  that  was  put  in  circulation  during 
the  month  contained  a  card  bearing  the  potent  mes- 
sage: "Proclaim  Liberty  Througout  the  Land,  and 
Win  the  World  War  for  Democracy  by  Doing  Your 
Part." 

Through  the  early  days  of  the  month  good  work 
was  done,  but  during  the  last  week  an  intensive  cam- 
paign was  waged.  The  supervisor  of  each  township, 
with  two  assistants  named  by  himself,  arranged  for  a 
patriotic  meeting  in  his  township,  at  which  there 
appeared  speakers  provided  by  the  county  organiza- 
tion and  subscriptions  to  the  bond  issue  were  urged. 

On  Wednesday  evening,  Oct.  24,  a  big  county 
meeting  and  demonstration  was  held  at  the  First 
Methodist  church  in  Shelbyville,  with  Judge  A.  J. 
Steidley  as  chairman  and  H.  C.  Roer,  cashier  of  the 
Fort  Dearborn  Trust  &  Savings  Bank  of  Chicago,  as 
the  principal  speaker.  The  meeting  was  held  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Shelbyville  Commercial  Club  and 
the  Shelby  County  Liberty  Loan  committee.  There 
was  a  parade  from  the  court  house  square  to  the 
church,  with  the  Commercial  Club,  the  Loan  organ- 
ization, the  Boy  Scouts  and  other  male  citizens  in 
line.  At  the  church  the  Liberty  Loan  Chorus,  which 
did  splendid  service  throughout  the  drive,  sang,  and 
little  Miss  Virginia  Parrish,  in  costume,  sang  a 
patriotic  selection. 

The  direct  results  of  the  meeting  were  subscrip- 
tions totaling  $13,000. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  campaign  it  was  found 
that  Shelby  County  had  subscribed  a  total  of  $585,- 
500,  and  while  she  did  not  reach  her  maximum  allot- 
ment, $1,050,525,  she  did  meet  the  requirements  for 
her  pro  rata  of  the  $3,000,000,000  minimum. 

Of  the  county's  total  subscription,  the  women 
took  $116,700  worth  of  bonds,  and  the  Boy  Scouts 
turned  in  subscriptions  totaling  $54,050.  Shelby- 
ville's  portion  of  the  total  was  $213,000,  with  Windsor 
second  with  $94,150.  The  other  towns  of  the  county 
reported  the  following  totals  for  their  communities: 

Moweaqua    $79,500 

Stewardson    51,200 

Findlay     40,400 

Westervelt    30,000 

Sigel    20,000 

Tower  Hill    18,550 

Strasburg     18,500 

Cowden     8,850 

Herrick     5,700 

Oconee    4,500 

Lakewood    1,150 

More  detailed  mention  of  the  women's  work  and 
that  of  the  Boy  Scouts  will  be  made  in  the  chapters 
allotted  to  their  activities. 


Students  of  Sparks  Business  College  in  Shelby- 
ville subscribed  for  two  $50  Liberty  Bonds  of  the 
second  issue.  They  were  placed  in  trust  to  be  used 
by  worthy  students  from  time  to  time  as  collateral 
in  obtaining  funds  for  temporary  needs  while  at- 
tending school,  and  formed  the  nucleus  for  a  Stu- 
dent Aid  fund. 

THE  THIRD  LOAN 

E.  G.  Munsell,  president  of  the  Commercial  State 
Bank  of  Windsor,  was  chairman  of  the  Third  Liberty 
Loan  organization  in  Shelby  County,  heading  the 
small  army  of  workers  that  enlisted  to  put  the 
county  over  the  top  with  its  quota  of  $682,050  of  the 
huge  total,  $3,000,000,000. 

In  a  meeting  at  the  Shelby  County  State  Bank 
in  Shelbyville,  Monday,  March  18,  initial  plans  were 
laid  for  the  drive  that  was  to  be  started  on  Satur- 
day, April  6 — the  anniversary  of  America's  declara- 
tion of  war.  Representatives  of  practically  every 
community  of  Shelby  County  were  present,  and  con- 
ferred with  Bradford  L.  Eldridge  of  Chicago,  dis- 
trict organizer  of  the  War  Loan  organization  and 
in  charge  of  nine  counties,  of  which  Shelby  was 
one.  He  declared  the  time  had  passed  to  "do  our 
bit,"  and  that  now  we  must  "do  our  most." 

Public  meetings  and  patriotic  rallies  were  part 
of  the  plan  for  the  campaign,  and  Mr.  Munsell  ten- 
dered the  organization  the  use  of  the  Windsor  Lib- 
erty Loan  Chorus,  which  subsequently  did  valiant 
service,  as  did  the  Liberty  Chorus  of  Shelbyville. 

U.  G.  Ward,  chairman  of  the  speakers'  committee 
of  the  recently  organized  Neighborhoods  Committee 
of  the  Council  of  National  Defense,  announced  the 
names  of  speakers  who  would  be  available  for 
speeches  at  the  meetings  planned  for  all  parts  of 
the  county.  The  speakers  were: 


S.   S.   Clapper 
A.   L.   Yantis 
X.   H.   Robertson 
A.  J.  Steidley 


J.  J.  Baker 
O.    O.   Barker 

F.  B.   Wendling 

G.  Henri  Bogart 


Publicity  chairmen  in  various  centers  also  were 
announced,  as  follows: 

Rev.  J.  H.  Cozad,  Moweaqua. 

Mrs.  Rose  Worley,  Findlay. 

Chas.  H.  Twiss,  Tower  Hill. 

O.  A.  Jewett,  Cowden. 

John  W.   Bailey,  Stewardson. 

Ben  H.  Kunkler,  Sigel. 

F.  W.  Hasemeier,  Strasburg. 

Hugh  S.  Lilly,  Windsor. 

D.   Leslie  Davis,  Shelbyville. 

These  chairmen  were  named  under  the  publicity 
department  of  the  Neighborhoods  Committee  of  the 
Council  of  National  Defense. 

For  soliciting  purposes  the  county  was  subdi- 
vided into  banking  districts,  and  the  work  of  the 
soliciting  committees  was  confined  to  their  respective 
districts,  while  at  the  close  of  the  campaign  report 
of  subscriptions  was  made  from  such  units. 

The  work  progressed  splendidly.  Even  before 
the  opening  of  the  drive  officially  on  April  6,  pub- 
lic meetings  were  held  at  various  points  and  in  one 
of  these  on  the  eve  of  the  campaign,  Windsor  went 
"over  the  top"  with  her  complete  allotment,  adding 
$15.000  at  that  time  to  $64,000  previously  subscribed, 
and  thus  putting  her  $1.000  above  the  $78,000  asked 
of  her. 

One  feature  of  the  campaign  was  a  visit  of  the 
"Jackies"  Band  from  the  Great  Lakes  Naval  Train- 
ing School,  with  a  complement  of  Liberty  Loan  ora- 
tors. The  speakers  were  Judge  Fenton  W.  Booth 
of  Washington,  Honorable  Frederick  Dale  Woods  of 
Michigan  and  Honorable  Henry  R.  Rathbone.  They 
alternated  between  meetings  held  in  the  Sparks  Gym- 


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nasium  and  the  circuit  court  room,  both  rooms  hav- 
ing to  be  utilized  to  accommodate  the  thousands  of 
people  who  desired  to  hear  them.  The  band  played 
at  both  places.  An  outdoor  meeting  was  prevented 
by  rain. 

An  oversubscription  was  urged,  as  early  in  the 
campaign  it  was  announced  that  the  $3,000,000.000 
originally  asked  in  the  Third  loan  would  be  insuffi- 
cient to  enable  the  government  to  meet  its  obliga- 
tions. Pressure  was  brought  to  bear  on  citizens 
able  but  reluctant,  and  with  great  vividness  the 
man  who  was  capable  of  buying  a  $1,000  bond  but 
invested  only  $50,  was  painted  as  an  "undesirable 
citizen." 

A  special  drive  was  inaugurated  in  the  City  of 
Shelbyville,  where  on  Tuesday,  April  16,  a  house  to 
house  canvass  was  made.  The  committees  handling 
this  intensive  drive  were: 


FIRST  WARD 


C.  E.   Bolinger 
R.  T.   Eddy 
Mrs.  Harry  Cook 
Mrs.  C.   E.  Walker 
-Mrs.   F.   O.  Bisdee 


Gco.   B.  Herrick 
M.  G.  Coleraan 
Gus  Klauser 
Miss  Bessie  Wilson 
Mrs.  J.  C.  Willard 
Mrs.  Irv.  Waggoner 


Geo.   B.   Rhoads 
E.   M.  Ragan 
Mrs.  Joe  L.  White 
Miss  Stella  Gregory 
Miss  Nellie  Roessler 


A.   L.   Yantis 

J.  J.   Baker 

Mrs.  William  Baum 

Mrs.  R.  T.  Eddy 

Mrs.  W.  II.  Wyckoff 


SECOND  WARD 


J.  J.  Ward 
Thos.  M.  Headen 
John  A.  Tracy 
Mrs.   Frances  Welsh 
Mrs.   C.  W.  Waggoner 
Mrs.   E.  N.  Herron 


THIRD  WARD 

H.   D.   Sparks 


J.  G.  Root 
Miss  Cath( 
Mrs.  J.  E.  Ki. 
Mrs.  E.  W.  H 


Mrs.  Elizabeth  Richardson 
FOURTH  WARD 


atherine   Pauschert 
E.  Kieffer 
amer 


F.  R. 
N.  H. 

Lafe 
S.  B. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 


.  Dove 
.  Robertson 
Tallman 
Carr 

Edgar  Leach 
Emma   B.  McCormick 
Mary  Fox 


S.  B.  Jackson 
W.  D.  Lumpp 
R.  R.  Parrish 
Mrs.  J.   D.  Miller 
Mrs.  Lillie  Rile 
Mrs.   Russell   Brown 
Mrs.   W.   D.   Lumpp 


These  committees  were  subdivided  by  their 
chairmen,  forming  a  number  of  teams  to  each  ward, 
which  quickly  and  effectively  canvassed  their  re- 
spective sections  of  the  city. 

Shelbyville,  Windsor  and  Big  Spring  townships, 
with  quotas  of  $95,628,  $31,134  and  $17,659,  respec- 
tively, were  the  first  three  townships  to  report  the 
raising  of  their  quotas.  Others  quickly  followed, 
and  when  the  end  of  the  campaign  was  reached  it 
was  found  that  the  county  had  subscribed  a  total 
of  $748,200,  or  $66,150  more  than  its  minimum  quota 
of  $682,050. 


The   figures   reported   from   the   various  banks   of 
the  county  were  as  follows: 

First  National   Bank  of  Cowden   $   14,450 

State   Bank   of  Cowden    10,400 

Farmers  State    Bank,   Findlay   23,100 

First   National    Bank,   Findlay    46,000 

State    Bank   of   Ilerrick    14,000 

Citizens  Bank,   Lakewood    3,550 

Bank  of  Lakewood    6,900 

Avars   Brothers,   Moweaiiua    40,000 

First    National   Bank,    Moweaqua    60,000 

State    Bank    of    Oconee    27,000 

First   National   Bank,   Shelbyville    75,000 

Shelby   County  State   Bank,   Shelbyville    106,650 

Citizens   National    Bank,   Shelbyville    17,000 

Shelby  Loan  &  Trust  Co.,  Shelbyville    18,000 

Peoples  Bank,  Sigel    19,500 


First    National    Bank,    Stewardson 
Strasburg    State    Bank.    Strasburg    .  .  . 

Tower   Hill    Bank,   Tower   Hill    

Farmers    National    Bank,    Westervelt 

Citizens    State    Bank,    Windsor    

Commercial   State   Bank,   Windsor    .  .  . 


61,700 
43.200 
39,150 
34,850 
5,350 
82,400 

Total    $748,200 

THE  FOURTH  LOAN 

E.  G.  Munsell  was  continued  as  chairman  of  the 
Fourth  Liberty  Loan  campaign,  which  ran  from 
Sept.  28  to  Oct.  19,  1918,  and  in  which  Shelby  County 
was  asked  for  subscriptions  to  bonds  totaling  $1,304,- 
160.  Some  little  time  prior  to  the  opening  of  the 
campaign  proper,  conferences  of  workers  were  held 
and  careful  and  comprehensive  plans  were  laid  for 
the  successful  consummation  of  the  big  drive. 
Quotas  were  assigned  to  the  several  townships  of 
the  county,  based  on  5  per  cent  of  the  net  worth  of 
the  population  of  such  units,  but  eventually  reports 
were  made  through  the  banks  of  the  county,  as  was 
the  case  in  the  Third  loan. 

A  publicity  campaign  in  advance  of  the  drive  was 
waged,  and  in  a  meeting  of  workers  from  all  parts 
of  the  county,  held  at  the  county  seat  on  Monday, 
Sept.  23,  Saturday,  Sept.  28,  was  designated  as  "Vol- 
unteer Day,"  with  subscription  booths  open  at  con- 
venient points  in  every  community  of  the  county. 
The  purpose  of  "Volunteer  Day"  was  to  put  the 
county  "over  the  top"  with  its  complete  quota  in 
one  day.  The  city  and  township  of  Shelbyville 
raised  their  entire  quotas,  and  other  cities  and 
townships  of  the  county  for  the  most  part  made 
an  excellent  showing.  No  subscriptions  were  re- 
ceived by  the  banks  of  the  county  on  "Volunteer 
Day,"  but  all  bonds  bought  on  that  day  were  taken 
through  the  subscription  booths  that  were  estab- 
lished in  every  school  district  of  the  county  and  in 
the  various  wards  of  the  several  cities.  The  feasibil- 
ity of  the  plan  was  clearly  demonstrated,  but  never- 
theless hard  work  was  necessary  in  succeeding  days 
of  the  campaign  to  raise  the  county's  full  total. 

With  a  full  week  of  the  campaign  gone,  the  of- 
ficials of  the  drive  on  Friday,  Oct.  4,  tabooed  "pussy- 


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footing"  policies  and  decided  to  use  drastic  meas- 
ures, if  necessary,  in  impressing  the  individual's  re- 
sponsibility upon  him.  To  the  end  that  there  be 
an  abundant  corps  of  workers,  each  township  chair- 
man in  the  county,  with  one  or  two  exceptions,  was 
furnished  with  two  assistants,  mainly  from  Shel- 
byville,  in  putting  through  the  method  of  procedure 
adopted  by  the  organization.  The  chairmen  of  the 
several  townships,  with  the  assistants  selected  for 
them,  were  as  follows,  namely: 
OCONEE 

Local    Chairman — J.   A.   Werner. 

Assistants — A.   L.   Vantis,  U.   G.   Ward. 

HERRICK 

Local   C'hairman — G.   S.    Holt. 
Assistants — M.  G.  Coleman,  D.  A.  Milligan. 

COLD  SPRING 

Local   C'hairman — Chas.    F.    Hunter. 
Assistants — W.   S.   Middlesworth,  J.  J.    Baker. 

TOWER  HILL 

Local   Chairman — II.    H.   Runkel. 
Assistants— L.    F.    Akenhead,    B.    W.    Kerr. 

RURAL 

Local    Chairman — Edw.    C.    Eberspacher. 
Assistants — L.    C.    Westervelt,    C.    T.    DeMonbrun. 

FLAT  BRANCH 
Local    Chairman — M.   A.    Duncan. 
Assistants — T.    C.    Dove,    Sidney    R.    Biggs. 

MOWEAQUA 

Local   Chairman — R.   W.   Snyder. 
Assistants — His  local  committee. 

DRY  POINT 

Local   Chairman — A.   Ward   Moore. 
Assistants — C.    E.    Bolinger,    Geo.    B.    Rhoads. 

LAKEWOOD 

Local   Chairman — J.    H.    Eddy. 
Assistants — J.   T.  dimmer,   L.   R.   Tallman. 

ROSE 

Local    Chairman — J.    Frank   Stillwell. 
Assistants — John    I).    Miller,    W.    D.    Lumpp. 

RIDGE 

Local   Chairman — E.   1).    Barnett. 
Assistants — Frank   Stone,    E.    M.   Ragan. 

PICKAWAY 

Local    Chairman — Homer   Hunter. 
Assistants — E.   G.    Munsell,   A.    H.    Storm. 

PENN 

Local   Chairman — H.   G.   Stewart. 

Assistants — Geo.    I..    Richardson,    Chas.    W.    Waggoner. 

HOLLAND 

Local    Chairman — J.    K.    Hoagland. 
Assistants— Geo.   C.   Bolinger,  J.   C.   Willard. 

SHELBYVILLE 
Local  Chairman — E.    N.   Herron. 
Assistants — His   local    committee. 

OKAW 

Local    Chairman — C.    E.    Coventry. 
Assistant — B.    P.   Dearing. 

TODD'S  POINT 
Local    Chairman — C.    E.    Pogue. 
Assistant — J.  A.  Tracy. 

PRAIRIE 

Local    Chairman — A.    C.    Mautz. 
Assistant — C.   R.   Mertens. 

RICHLAND 

Local   Chairman — Henry   Faster,  Jr. 
Assistants — J.   J.   Ward,   Geo.    L.   Dearing. 

WINDSOR 

Local    Chairman — C.    C.    Firebaugh. 

Assistants — E.    N.    Herron,    C.    R.    Mertens,    Ransom    Rob- 
inson. 

SIGEL 

Local    Chairman — S.    S.    Bigler. 
Assistants — C.   H.    Beetle,    N.   H.   Robertson. 


BIG  SPRING 

Local    C'hairman — J.    C..  Quinn. 
Assistant — W.    J.    Richardson. 

ASH  GROVE 

Local   Chairman — Sylvester   Clawson. 
Assistant — H.    D.   Sparks. 

Intensive,  aggressive  work  marked  the  progress 
of  the  campaign,  and  by  the  15th  of  October  more 
than  a  million  dollars  worth  of  bonds  had  been 
purchased.  In  one  instance  a  revival  meeting  was 
suspended  to  give  the  Liberty  Loan  the  right  of 
way.  The  telephone  operators  at  the  Shelbyville 
switchboard  subscribed  for  $600  worth  of  bonds. 
Notable  sacrifices  were  made  here  and  there  in  a 
patriotic  fervor  to  meet  the  government's  need;  yet 
with  practically  $300,000  more  to  raise  before  the 
close  of  the  drive,  the  officials  sent  out  an  urgent 
request  for  persons  who  already  had  purchased 
bonds  to  double  their  subscriptions.  With  this  plan 
followed  by  100  persons  who  already  had  subscribed 
for  $1,000  worth,  200  who  had  taken  $500,  200  who 
had  loaned  $100  each  and  200  who  had  subscribed 
$50  each,  $230,000  of  the  amount  was  provided  for 
and  personal  solicitors  were  to  obtain  the  remaining 
$70,000. 

Shelby  County  acquitted  herself  nobly.  With  a 
quota  of  $1,373,600,  the  county  subscribed  $1,393,450, 
while  in  actuality  subscriptions  amounting  practi- 
cally to  $80,000  additional  were  taken  in  this  county 
but  accredited  to  adjoining  counties  because  the  sub- 
scribers did  their  banking  business  in  those  counties 
and  the  subscriptions  passed  through  their  banks.  In 
this  manner  Shelby  County  lost  $67,100  to  Christian 
County  and  $12,500  to  Moultrie  County. 

That  the  Fourth  Liberty  Loan  was  supported  by 
the  people  in  general  in  Shelby  County  is  indicated 
by  the  fact  that  the  number  of  individual  subscribers 
was  6,985,  or  about  23  per  cent,  of  the  county's  popu- 
lation. As  to  townships  22  of  the  24  raised  their 
quotas.  The  delinquents  were  Cold  Spring  and 
Penn.  The  official  report  of  quotas,  subscriptions 
and  number  of  subscribers  accredited  to  the  banks 
of  the  county,  is  as  follows: 


Amt. 

No.  of 

Bank 

Quota 

Sub. 

Subs. 

Tower  Hill   Bank,  Tower  Hill  3 

;  40,900 

$  55,300 

442 

Farmers  State   Bank,  Findlay  

51,000 

43,500 

179 

44,900 

29,100 

285 

State  Bank,  Oconee   

33,650 

57,200 

308 

Citizens  State    Bank.    Windsor  

39,800 

20,450 

126 

Commercial    State    Bank,    Windsor.  .  . 

107,100 

122,100 

384 

Farmers    National    Bank,    Westervelt. 

51,000 

81,650 

263 

State  Bank,  Strasburg  

67,300 

72,000 

300 

First   National    Bank,   Stewardson.  .  .  . 

89,800 

91,650 

700 

People's    Bank,    Sigel  

39,800 

45,000 

260 

Shelby  Loan  &•  Trust  Co.,  Shelbyville 

39,800 

39,800 

159 

Shelby   Co.   State   Bank,   Shelbyville.  . 

152,000 

180,500 

785 

First  National   Bank,  Shelbyville  

179,520 

181,000 

659 

Citizens   National   Bank,  Shelbyville.. 

51,000 

25,150 

111 

First  National   Bank,   Moweaqua   .... 

134,650 

144,650 

650 

Ayars   Bros.   Bank,   Moweaqua  

56,100 

47,550 

245 

Bank   of    Lakewood,    Lakewood  

11,200 

15,000 

147 

THE  VICTORY  LIBERTY  LOAN 

With  the  war  over  but  still  facing  the  big  and 
expensive  task  of  bringing  the  boys  home,  as  well 
as  the  need  of  further  extension  of  credit  to  the 
allied  governments,  the  United  States  government 
called  for  a  Victory  Liberty  Loan  in  the  spring  of 
1919.  The  sum  of  $4,500,000.000  was  asked  of  the 
Xation.  and  Shelby  County's  share  was  placed  at 
$1,066,950,  or  three  per  cent,  of  the  net  worth  of  its 
population. 

O.  W.  Walker,  president  of  the  Shelby  County 
State  Bank,  was  appointed  county  chairman  of  the 
Victory  Liberty  Loan,  and  completed  the  organiza- 
tion by  the  following  appointments: 


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W.  J.  Richardson 
C.   E.   Bolinger 
C.   R.    Mertens 
J.  J.   Baker 
V.    E.   Mullins 
B.  W.  Kerr 


EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE 
W.  H.  Chew,  Chairman 

Geo.  B.  Rhoads 
E.  M.  Ragan 
J.  C.  Westervelt 
C.  W.  Waggoner 
W.   C.    Headen 
John  D.  Miller 


B.   P.  Dearing 
J.  E.  Dazey 
E.   G.  Munsell 
M.    S.    Ayars 
John  J.  Ward 


FINANCE   COMMITTEE 

W.  S.  Middlesworth,  Chairman 
L.  C.  Westervelt 
Ralph  W.   Snyder 
E.   D.   Barnett 
Henry   E.   Munson 
Edward    Bender 


PUBLICITY  COMMITTEE 

D.    Leslie   Davis,    Chairman 
Eugene  Snyder  W.   L.  Johns 

Fred   Plog  O.  A.  Jewett 

Mrs.   Rose  Worley  T.   W.   Bailey 

F.  W.   Hasemeier  Hugh  S.  Lilly 

J.  W.  Brewer  Isaac   S.    Storm 

T.  B.  Shoaff 

SPEAKERS    COMMITTEE 

A.  L.  Yantis,  Chairman 

M.  G.  Coleman  X.  H.  ^Robertson 

John  M.  Heslin  T.  E.  Kieffer 

AUTOMOBILE   FLYING   SQUADRON 

C.   H.   Beetle,   Chairman 
Geo.    L.    Dearing  C.  E.  Walker 

F.  R.  Dove  was  made  chairman  of  an  advisory 
committee,  and  John  A.  Tracy  chairman  of  the  Min- 
ute Men. 

The  organization  also  extended  into  the  town- 
ships and  every  school  district  of  the  county,  the 
township  chairmen,  vice  chairmen  and  chairmen  of 
the  advisory  committee  being  as  follows,  the  names 
appearing  in  the  same  order  as  the  offices  named  in 
this  paragraph: 

Oconee — John   Werner,   S.   D.   Nichols,   Harry   Hinton. 

Herrick — G.   S.   Bolt,   Chas.   S.   Moon,   Richard   Corley. 

Cold  Spring — William  Morrison,  C.  F.  Hunter,  George 
Fankboner. 

Tower  Hill— H.    H.    Runkel,    Chas.   R.    Eiler,   J.    W.    Green. 

Rural — Edw.  C.  Eberspacher,  Geo.  D.  Brownback,  Mack 
Harper. 

Flat  Branch — Aubrey  Duncan,  Frank  Oaks,  C.  W.  Bridg- 
man. 

Moweaqua — W.  K.  Andrews,  J.  T.  Haslam,  J.  H.  Cozad. 
Messrs.  S.  S.  Clapper  and  E.  V.  Young  also  were  vice 
chairman  and  chairman  of  the  advisory  committee,  respectively, 
sharing  the  duties  with  Messrs.  Haslam  and  Cozad. 

Dry   Point— A.  Ward  Moore,   W.   C.  Turney,   B.   E.   Prater. 

Lakewood — C.  P.  Roberts,  R.   L.  Shores,  Chas.  Hudson. 

Rose— John   Kull,   A.   C.   Wilson,   F.   A.   Warner. 

Ridge — Edward  Christman,  Chas.  Roessler,  Henry  De- 
laney. 

Pickaway — Levi   Corley,    W.    W.    Younger,    Frank    Gregory. 

Penn — Harvey   G.   Stewart,   C.   H.   Baird,    E.   R.   Harper. 

Holland— Geo.  E.  Roberts,  R.  E.  Syfert,  C.   G.  Hopkins. 

Clarksburg— J.  K.  Hoagland,  Wm.  Campbell,  J.  E.  Gal- 
lagher. 

Shelbyville — E.   N.   Herron,   Geo.   C.    Bolinger,   F.   R.   Dove. 


Okaw — C.    E.   Coventry,   E.   M.   Vennum,   Fred   Olmstead. 
Todd's  Point — C.    E.   Pogue,    E.   S.    Combs,   Thos.    Fleming. 
Prairie— A.  C.  Mautz,  Jacob  Yakey,  H.  Falk. 
Richland — Henry    Faster,    James    F.    Kull,    L.    P.    Childress. 
Windsor— C.  W.   Grant,  W.  I.   Griffin,   C.  H.  Sexson. 
Sigel— S.   S.   Bigler,   B.    H.   Kunkler,  J.   A.    Berchtold. 
Big    Spring — J.    C.    Quinn,    R.    M.    Bingaman,    P.    H.    Mc- 
Clory. 

Ash  Grove — Sylvester  Clawson,  H.  C.  Hart,  G.  C.  Brackin. 

The  women's  organization,  under  the  chairman- 
ship of  Mrs.  Q.  W.  Walker,  was  as  thoroughly  or- 
ganized and  efficient  as  that  of  the  men.  It  is  treated 
in  a  separate  chapter. 

One  of  the  first  tasks  Chairman  Walker  and  his 
assistants  set  their  hands  to  was  the  determining  of 
the  allotment  of  the  several  townships  of  the  county, 
and  the  further  monumental  labor  of  figuring  the 
individual  responsibility  of  every  citizen,  under  the 
three  per  cent,  net  valuation  plan.  This  determined, 
a  letter  was  mailed  to  each  taxpayer,  apprising  such 
person  of  the  amount  of  the  subscription  expected. 

The  township  quotas  were  fixed  at  the  following 
figures: 

Oconee     

Herrick    

Cold    Spring    

Tower  Hill   

Rural    

Flat  Branch   

Moweaqua     

T-\ Tl       •__! 


Dry  Point 
Lakewood 

Rose   

Ridge     .  .  . 
Pickaway 

Penn     

Holland   and    Clarksburg 


44,850 
22,200 
22,750 
41,350 
49,600 
50,400 
58,400 
26,450 
21,850 
40,200 
56,700 
47,900 
44,600 
33,100 


Shelbyville    149,750 


Okaw 
Todd's   Point 

Prairie    

Richland 
Windsor 

Sigel     

Big  Spring   .  . 
Ash    Grove    .  . 


46,500 
31,500 
59,550 
65,200 
48,300 
22,900 
26,650 
56,250 


Total    $1,066,950 

Features  of  the  campaign,  which  went  forward 
with  ever  increasing  momentum  until  its  splendid 
consummation  in  a  heavy  oversubscription,  included 
a  big  county  mass  meeting  at  the  court  house  in 
Shelbyville  on  Wednesday,  April  the  16th,  at  which 
the  district  chairman,  Mrs.  Guy  T.  Lewis  of  Decatur, 
Madame  Guerin,  an  eloquent  French  woman  fresh 
from  battle-ravaged  France,  and  Lieutenant  Frank 
McGlinn  of  Chicago,  one  of  "Reilley's  Bucks,"  were 
the  speakers;  community  meetings  at  various  points 
throughout  the  county,  where  returned  soldiers  told 
their  stories  of  the  war,  adding  their  word  to  the 
appeal  of  the  regular  speakers;  the  visit  of  two  aero- 
planes from  Chanute  Field,  primarily  for  recruiting 
purposes  but  "bombing"  the  city  from  the  air  with 
Victory  Liberty  Loan  literature;  a  big  demonstra- 


Pagc  Thirty-Five 


tion  for  returned  soldiers,  Thursday,  April  24,  on 
which  date  a  delegation  of  noted  Victory  Loan 
speakers,  with  a  war  relic  train  and  big  military  hand, 
visited  the  city  and  boomed  the  local  campaign  for 
bond-selling.  These  and  other  means  were  used  by 
Chairman  Walker  and  his  organization  with  telling 
effect. 

Saturday,  April  26,  was  designated  as  "Allotment 
Day,"  on  which  an  earnest  effort  was  made  to  put 
the  county  "over  the  top"  with  its  full  quota.  The 
day  failed  of  its  largest  purpose,  but  great  inroads 
were  made  on  the  huge  allotment  asked  of  the  county 
and  two  townships,  Shelbyville  and  Prairie,  were 
found  to  have  reached  their  goal — the  former  with 
138  and  the  latter  with  100  per  cent,  of  its  quota. 
\Yhile  cheered  by  these  results,  the  officials  never- 
theless were  disappointed  at  the  net  results  of  the 
day's  work;  yet  did  not  feel  so  downcast  when  they 
learned  officially  that  Shelby  county,  with  60  per 
cent,  of  her  quota  raised,  was  leading  not  only  the 
other  seven  counties  of  the  district,  but  the  state  of 
Illinois  and  the  Xation  at  large  in  the  percentage  of 
quotas  subscribed.  Illinois  had  but  22  per  cent,  of 
its  quota,  and  the  United  States  as  a  whole  but  20 
per  cent. 

Daily  meetings  of  the  committees  with  Chairman 
Walker  at  the  Shelby  County  State  Bank  did  much 
to  keep  up  the  morale  of  the  great  working  body, 
and  to  inspire  the  individuals  with  greater  zeal  to 
finish  the  big  job  right.  And  they  did  it. 

Victory  was  proclaimed  by  Chairman  Walker 
when  he  appeared  before  his  committees  on  the 
morning  of  Monday,  May  12,  in  the  final  meeting  of 
that  body.  Popular  subscriptions,  he  announced, 
reached  within  $100,000  of  the  county's  quota,  while 
the  banks  guaranteed  the  balance  and  the  campaign 
closed  with  an  oversubscription  of  more  than  $100,- 
000,  or  a  total  of  $1,173,600. 

There  were  fourteen  Honor  townships,  namely: 


Shelbyville 

Sigel 

Richland 

Tower  Hill 

Prairie 

Moweaqua 

Windsor 


Rural 

Clarksburg 

Kig  Spring 

Tod'l's  Point 

Okaw 

-Ash  Grove 

Ridge 


The  oversubscription  of  some  of  these  was  nearly 
200  per  cent,  of  their  quota. 

Following  are  shown  the  Shelby  County  banks, 
with  the  quotas  allotted  by  the  Federal  Reserve  Dis- 
trict authorities,  which  in  fact  formed  the  basis  of 
the  county's  liability,  and  the  amount  subscribed  by 
each: 


Bank 

Quota 

Subscription 

First  National   Bank,   Cowden    $ 

34,350 

$      34,350 

State  Bank,  Cowden   

33,800 

33,800 

Farmers  State  Bank,  Findlay  

39,700 

39,700 

First  National  Bank,  Findlay  

65,000 

65,000 

State   Bank,  Herrick  

33,800 

33,800 

Bank  of  Lakewood  

12,250 

19,250 

M.  S.  Ayars  Bank,  Moweaqua  

21,550 

21,550 

First  National  Bank,  Moweaqua  

139,450 

139,450 

State    Bank,   Oconee    

27,000 

27,000 

Citizens  National   Bank,  Shelbyville  

38,950 

38,950 

First  National  Bank,  Shelbyville  

142,750 

146,050 

Shelby  County  State  Bank,  Shelbyville.  . 

120,650 

169,400 

Shelby  Loan  &  Trust  Co.,  Shelbyville.  . 

27,750 

27,950 

Peoples   Bank,   Sigel    

28,300 

34,750 

First    National    Bank,    Stewardson  

67,950 

68,050 

Strasburg  State  Bank   

50,250 

69,850 

Tower  Hill  Bank,  Tower  Hill  

32,650 

44,500 

Farmers    National    Bank,    Westervelt.  .  .  . 

38,200 

47,350 

Citizens  State   Bank,  Windsor  

30,850 

30,850 

Commercial    State    Hank,    Windsor  

81,750 

82,000 

Totals    $1,066,950         $1,173,600 


In  the  Victory  Liberty  Loan  campaign  the  old 
plan  of  "drives"  from  the  county  seat,  employed  in 
every  other  campaign  for  the  sale  of  bonds  or  the 
raising  of  funds,  was  eliminated,  and  the  results  justi- 
fied the  action,  for  while  perhaps  the  county  would 
have  reached  its  goal  a  little  more  readily  than  by 
the  new  system,  the  county  did  go  "over  the  top" 
splendidly  and  accomplished  it  with  absolutely  no 
friction  and  no  coercion,  and  with  no  sores  to  be 
healed. 

In  the  final  session  of  the  Victory  Loan  commit- 
tee, the  members  formally  expressed  their  apprecia- 
tion of  the  wise  and  effective  work  that  had  been 
done  by  the  chairmen  of  both  the  men's  and  women's 
organizations,  Mr.  O.  W.  Walker  and  his  wife,  Mrs. 
Maude  Trower  Walker.  The  expression  took  con- 
crete form  in  a  motion  authorizing  a  florist  to  place 
bouquets  of  forget-me-nots  on  the  desk  of  Mr. 
Walker  at  the  bank  on  three  days  of  the  current 
week,  and  on  alternate  days  to  convey  similar  trib- 
utes to  Mrs.  Walker  at  her  home  on  North  Broad- 
way. 

Stretched  Their  Legs 

Companies  C  of  Sullivan  and  D  of  Paris  stretched 
their  legs  in  Shelbyville  on  Monday,  May  6,  1918,  and 
were  "at  ease"  for  an  hour  while  the  guests  of  the 
Shelbyville  Commercial  Club  at  an  informal  recep- 
tion tendered  them  on  the  streets.  These  troops, 
with  other  units  of  the  130th  U.  S.  Infantry,  were 
en  route  from  Camp  Logan,  Houston,  Tex.,  to  the 
seaboard  for  embarkation,  and  were  routed  over  the 
Big  Four  from  St.  Louis  eastward.  Captain  Vance 
Courtright  of  Shelbyville,  in  command  of  Company 
D,  and  Lieutenant  Chas.  L.  Twiss  and  Lieutenant 
Harry  Downs,  other  Shelbyville  officers  who  were 
with  these  companies,  arranged  for  a  brief  stop. 

The  soldiers  detrained  and  marched  through  sev- 
eral of  the  business  streets,  then  came  to  rest  on 
Main  street,  where  they  were  given  an  ovation  by 
the  big  crowd  that  quickly  gathered  and  a  "set  up" 
of  cigars,  apples  and  other  knicknacks. 

H  Company,  Shelbyville's  old  National  Guards- 
men, also  a  part  of  the  moving  troops,  was  routed 
by  way  of  Decatur,  to  which  many  of  their  relatives 
and  friends  motored  to  give  them  a  word  of  greet- 
ing as  they  passed  on  their  long  journey  to  war- 
stricken  Europe. 

Banished  German  Language 

With  patriotism  100  per  cent.,  and  determined  to 
show  the  spirit  as  well  as  the  letter  of  loyalty  to  the 
Nation,  St.  Paul's  Evangelical  Lutheran  church  of 
Shelbyville  officially  and  without  a  dissenting  voice 
banished  the  German  language  from  all  services  of 
the  church.  This  was  done,  notwithstanding  some 
of  the  older  members  could  understand  the  English 
language  imperfectly  or  not  at  all.  This  congrega- 
tion in  its  entirety  was  very  active  in  responding  to 
all  demands  of  the  government  and  beneficent  insti- 
tutions. 

T.  O.  P. 

The  initials  of  one  Shelby  County  service  man 
spelled  what  the  boys  went  over — the  "top."  This 
was  T.  O.  Pea  of  Henton,  who  went  to  Decatur  and 
enlisted  on  the  17th  of  May,  1918,  as  a  sailor. 


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PART  OF  SHELBYVILLE  LIBERTY  LOAN  GLEE  CLUB 
Center — Mrs.  Maude  Walker,  Mrs.  Josephine  Grider. 
Top  Row — Miss  Dessie  Downs,  Miss  Helen  Goodrick,  Miss  Elizabeth  Zimmer,  Mrs.  Ruby 

Walker,  Miss  Birdie  Wilson,  Miss  Harriett  Bryant,  Miss  Maurine  Parrish. 
Bottom  Row — Miss  Avis  Vincent,   Miss   Kathryn  Brown,   Miss  Mary  Johnson,   Mrs.   Irene 

Pundt,  Miss  Janice  Lumpp,  Miss  Ruby  Turney,  Mrs.  Iris  Igo,  Mrs.  Delia  Miller. 


Shelby   County  Women  in   the   Liberty   Loans 


Sacrifice,  zeal,  intelligence  and  effectiveness  char- 
acterized the  work  of  Shelby  County  women  in  the 
several  Liberty  Loans,  which  became  a  very  potent 
force  in  carrying  on  the  task  of  meeting  the  quotas 
allotted  to  this  county  from  time  to  time. 

The  women  of  the  county  were  not  organized  for 
this  work  until  the  Second  Liberty  Loan  drive.  Then 
Mrs.  O.  W.  Walker  of  Shelbyville  was  appointed 
County  Chairman,  and  because  of  her  fine  qualities 
of  leadership  was  retained  in  that  post  until  the  close 
of  the  Victory  Liberty  Loan. 

Immediately  upon  her  induction  into  the  work 
she  appointed  her  township  chairmen,  a  list  of  whom 
appears  below,  and  who  for  the  most  part  served 
through  all  the  loans.  Unless  otherwise  indicated, 
their  service  was  given  in  the  Second,  Third,  Fourth 
and  Fifth  loans.  Where  figures  appear  after  a  name, 
they  indicate  the  loans  in  which  such  person  served 
as  township  chairman.  The  list  follows: 

Oconee— Mrs.    Ben    P.   Allen. 

Herrick— Mrs.    C.   W.    Kesler. 

Cold   Spring — Mrs.    Stevanna   Corley. 

Tower   Hill — Mrs.    E.   G.   Foster. 

Rural — Mrs.    E.   C.    Eberspacher. 

Flat   Branch — Mrs.   M.  A.  Duncan. 

Moweaqua — Mrs.  Ralph  W.  Synder,  2,  3,  4;  Mrs.  Elsum 
Hedges,  5. 

Dry   Point— Mrs.   A.   Ward   Moore. 

Lakewood — Mrs.    Fred    Brandt. 

Rose — Mrs.   Clarence  Tice. 

Ridge — Miss    Dora    Donnell. 

Pickaway — Mrs.  Homer  Hunter,  2,  3 ;  Miss  Laura  Sy- 
fert,  4,  5. 


Penn — Mrs.   Harvey   G.   Stewart. 

Holland— Miss  Ada  May  Robinson,  2,  3,  4;  Mrs.  R.  P. 
Dearing,  5. 

Clarksburg — Mrs.  John   Hickman. 

Shelbyville— Mrs.  C.  E.  Walker.  First  Ward,  Mrs.  Harry 
E.  Cook ;  Second  Ward,  Mrs.  Irvin  Waggoner ;  Third  Ward, 
Miss  Estelle  Gregory;  Fourth  Ward,  Mrs.  John  D.  Miller. 

Okaw — Mrs.  John  Cribbett. 

Todd's  Point — Mrs.  E.  S.  Combs. 

Prairie — Mrs.  A.   C.   Mautz. 

Richland — Mrs.    Lizzie   Norris. 

Windsor — Mrs.    C.    C.    Firebaugh. 

Sigel — Mrs.  John  A.  Berchtold,  2,  3,  4 ;  Mrs.  Eva  Big- 
ler,  5. 

Big  Spring — Mrs.  John   C.   Quinn. 

Ash  Grove — Miss   Edna  Storm. 

The  work  of  selling  bonds  was  new  to  the  women, 
and  a  great  many  were  reluctant  to  enter  upon  that 
work.  However,  they  cast  their  fears  aside  for  the 
sake  of  the  "boys"  and  their  country,  and  their  united 
effort  resulted  in  the  sale  of  $116,750.00  in  bonds  of 
the  Second  issue. 

THE  THIRD  LOAN 

In  the  Third  drive  the  women  had  more  confi- 
dence in  themselves,  and  the  people  in  general  began 
to  realize  that  women  could  really  sell  bonds.  The 
organization  was  extended  to  school  district  com- 
mittees and  by  solicitation  and  house-to-house  can- 
vass $329,850.00  worth  of  bonds  were  sold. 

In  this  drive,  in  addition  to  the  above  organiza- 
tion, Miss  Clare  Shoaff  and  Mrs.  W.  C.  Kelley  were 
made  treasurer  and  chairman  of  the  Speakers'  com- 
mittee, respectively,  and  Mrs.  J.  T.  Knox  of  Mode, 


Page   Thirty-Seven 


Mrs.  Henry  Clausen  of  Fancher,  Mrs.  Ed  Warner  of 
Henton  and  Mrs.  Herrick  Huffer  of  Middlesworth 
were  appointed  vice  chairmen. 

Having  to  overcome  a  little  natural  prejudice 
against  the  participation  of  women  in  the  selling  of 
bonds,  the  feminine  forces  had  a  little  harder  work 
than  otherwise  would  have  been  the  case,  but  never- 
theless immediate  results  were  forthcoming  and  early 
in  the  campaign  Chairman  Walker  was  notified  from 
district  headquarters  that  among  the  counties  of  the 
district  Shelby  was  in  second  place,  Champaign 
alone  leading  her.  Determined  not  to  be  displaced, 
unless  to  move  to  the  head  of  the  column,  the  women 
permitted  no  other  county  to  excel  them  and  closed 
the  campaign  with  the  second  high  subscription  and 
serving  as  an  important  factor  in  placing  the  district 
second  only  to  Chicago  and  Cook  County. 

That  the  women  were  thoroughly  imbued  with 
the  spirit  of  service  was  strikingly  illustrated  in  this 
drive  by  the  fact  that  with  weather  and  roads  so  bad 
that  neither  horse-drawn  nor  motor-propelled  ve- 
hicle could  be  used,  the  women  toured  their  territory 
on  foot  in  order  that  the  work  be  not  neglected.  The 
results  of  such  devotion  show  in  the  $329,850.00  total 
of  sales. 

THE  FOURTH  LOAN 

When  the  Fourth  Liberty  Loan  was  launched, 
the  plans  for  selling  the  bonds  were  changed.  The 
first  day  of  the  drive  was  designated  as  Volunteer 
Day.  Committees  of  men  and  women  met  in  the 
polling  places,  but  the  men  of  the  county  were  so 
busy  in  their  fields  and  places  of  business  that  prac- 
tically three-fourths  of  the  volunteer  work  was  done 
by  women.  Volunteer  Day  bringing  the  sale  of  only 
half  of  the  quota,  a  house-to-house  canvass  was  made 
and  resulted  in  the  sale  of  $113,000.00  additional 
bonds,  a  total  of  $696.700.00  for  the  women's  com- 
mittee. The  men's  committee  completed  the  work 
and  the  county  reached  its  quota  and  went  over  the 
top  with  its  full  quota,  $1,373,600,  and  an  additional 
$19,850. 

An  interesting  incident  of  this  drive 'is  seen  in  the 
fact  that  in  Holland  township  one  woman  canvassed 
the  forty-nine  families  in  her  territory  and  procured 
forty-nine  subscriptions — a  100  per  cent,  canvass. 

SHELBY   COUNTY   WOMAN'S   VICTORY   LIB- 
ERTY   LOAN    ORGANIZATION 

The  woman's  organization  for  the  Victory  Loan 
campaign  was  as  thorough  and  effective  as  that  of 
the  men.  It  extended  from  the  central  office  in  Shel- 
byville into  every  township,  school  district  and 
neighborhood  of  the  county,  with  500  women  actively 
engaged  in  soliciting  subscriptions,  creating  senti- 
ment, strengthening  the  hands  of  the  men  and  in 
every  way  possible  throwing  their  influence  to  the 
support  of  the  campaign.  The  organization  was  as 
follows: 

Mrs.   O.    W.    Walker,    County    Chairman. 

Mrs.  Charles   Igo,   County  Secretary. 

ADVISORY  COMMITTEE 

Mrs.  B.  P.  Dearing  Mrs.  Wm.  S.  Middlesworth 

Mrs.  W.  C.  Kelley  Mrs.  H.  T.  Hamlin 

Mrs.  T.  B.  Shoaff  Mrs.  Gus  Klauser 

Mrs.  J.  E.  Kieffer  Mrs.  K.  A.  Kite 

Mrs.  E.  W.  Hamer  Miss  Katherine  Fitzgerald 

Mrs.  T.   B.  Shoaff  Miss  Jennie  Pollard 

PUBLICITY  COMMITTEE 

Miss    Clare  B.    Shoaff,    Chairman 

Miss   Mary  Seaman  Miss  Lillian  Gregory 

Mrs.  H.  E.  Monroe  Mrs.   Isaac  Nutt 

Miss  Bessie  Wilson  Mrs.  T.  L.  Hoover 

Mrs.  R.  R.  Parrish  Mrs.   Adolph    Reiss 

Mrs.  Geo.  L.  Richardson  Mrs.  C.  T.  DeMonbrun 

Mrs.  Frank   Parker 


SPEAKERS  COMMITTEE 

Miss    Georgie  T.    Hopkins,    Chairman 

Mrs.  Joe  White  Mrs.  S.  S.   Crook 

Mrs.   Birney  S.  Hite  Mrs.   Frank   O.    Bisdee 

Mrs.  James    Shoaff  Mrs.   S.    B.    Carr 

Mrs.  W.   E.   Lowe  Miss  Allie  Record 

Mrs.   Fanna    Feitscher  Miss  Olive    Eiler 
Mrs.  W.    C.    Kelley 

FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  COMMITTEE 

Miss   Bertha    Reiss,    Chairman,    Shelbyville. 
Miss  Lydia  Faster,  Strasburg. 
Mrs.  J.   E.  Kieffer,  Shelbyville. 
Miss  Ada   May    Robinson,    Shumway. 
Miss   Rose    Streng,    Sewardson. 
Mrs.  John  Kaufman,  Sigel. 

PUBLIC  SCHOOL  COMMITTEE 

Miss   Effa  Steward,   Chairman 
Miss  Fannie  Davis  Miss  Katherine   Patterson 

Miss  Avis  Vincent 

Also  the  teachers  in  the   168  school  districts  of  the  county. 
"FLYING  SQUADRON"  AUTO  COMMITTEE 

Mrs.  Ben  Sturgis,  Chairman 

Mrs.  C.   T.   DeMonbrun  Mrs.   Elmer  Weakley 

Mrs.  Will   D.    Lumpp  Mrs.   Fern   Tallman  " 

Mrs.  H.   Baird  Whitaker  Miss  Bernardine    Middlesworth 

DECORATING  COMMITTEE 

Mrs.   Chas.   R.   Mertens,   Chairman 

Mrs.  R.  T.   Eddy  Mrs.  J.   L.   Hoover 

TOWNSHIP    AND    SCHOOL    DISTRICT    CHAIRMEN 

Township  and  school  district  chairmen  were  named,  as  fol- 
lows '• 

OCONEE 

Mrs.    Ben   Allen,   Chairman 

Mrs.  Sarah    Hill  Mrs.  Arthur    McTaggart 

Mrs.  A.  H.   Hamilton    .  Mrs.   Fred    Green 

Mrs.   Ben   Price  Mrs.   C'harles    Price 

Mrs.   Harry   Hinton  Mrs.    Bertha   Vorhees 

Mrs.  Hugh    Porter  Mr,.   R.    O.    Hawkins 

Mrs.   Sadie   Hutchins 

HERRICK 

Mrs.  Mary  Kesler,  Chairman 

Mrs.  Charles  Moon  Mrs.   Anna   Grey 

Mrs.  Simon    Syfert  Mrs.   Latimer 

Mrs.  William  bare  Mrs.   G.   W.   Sollis 

Mrs.   Jennie   Adams 

COLD  SPRING 

Mrs.  Stevanna  Corley,  Chairman 

Mrs.  Grover    Kelley  Mrs.   George    Fankboner 

Miss  Maggie   Shaw  Miss  Vivian   Fletcher 

Miss  Mabel   Kelley  Miss  Mabel    Corley 

Mrs.  Chloe   Simpson  Mrs.   Arthur  Wagner 

TOWER  HILL 

Foster,   Chairman 

Mrs.   Jennie    Montgomery 
Miss  Mary    Peek 
Mrs.    A.   B.   Syfert 
Mrs.   Charles   Wolf 
Mrs.    Esther  Lowe 
Mrs.    Blanche  Eddy 
Mrs.   Olive  Roberts 
Mrs.   Hazel  McKittrick 

RURAL 

ipacher,    Chairman 
Miss   Margaret  Mueller 
Miss    Freda    Metzger 
Mrs.   Clarence   Wagner 
Mrs.  George   Brownback 
Mrs.  Sam  Tilley 

FLAT  BRANCH 
Mrs.  Aubrey  Duncan,  Chairman 
Full  list  not  available 


Mrs.    E. 

G. 

Mrs. 

Carrol   Smith 

Mrs. 

C.  R.  Eiler 

Mrs. 

A,  L.  Vincent 

Miss 

Eva  Rhodes 

Mrs. 

Wm.  Gillespie 

Mrs. 

Bert  Darst 

Mrs. 

Helen    Eiler 

Mrs. 

Lucy   Cannon 

Mrs.    Edw. 

] 

El 

Mrs. 

Sid    Potter 

Mrs. 

Elmer  Potter 

Mrs. 

Rov  Wright 

Mrs. 

Charles  Clark 

Mrs. 

Mack    Harper 

MOWEAQUA 
Mrs.   Elsum  Hedges,  Chairman 


Mrs.  Will  Tolson 
Mrs.  John   Myers 
Mrs.   B.  F.  Hudson 
Mrs.   A.   D.  Kyner 


Mrs.   C.  A.  Davis 
Mrs.   D.  H.  Palmer 
Mrs.   Delmar  Parks 
Mrs.   Blanche  Baker 
Mrs.    Richard    Tolson 

LAKEWOOD 

Mrs.    Fred    Brandt,   Chairman 

Mrs.   Ivy   Hall  Mrs.    Emma  B.  Carnes 

Mrs.   Clyde  Foor  Mrs.   Maurice   Fluckey 

Mrs.   E.  B.  Doner  Mrs.   Bessie  Kiefling 

Miss  Nellie  Row  Mrs.  Anna  Austin 


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DRY   POINT 

Mrs.  A.  Ward  Moore,  Chairman 

Mrs.    Milton   Hunter  Mrs.   James  Mitchell 

Mrs.   II.  Funk  Mrs.   Otto  Hall 

Mrs.  John    Dowell  Mrs.    Nellie   Myers 

Mrs.  Lillie  Wagner  Mrs.   Mida  Harming 

Mrs.  Anna  Askins  Mrs.    Electa    Hennike 

Mrs.    Addie   Hunter 

ROSE 

Mrs.    Clarence   Tice,    Chairman 
Mrs.  C,eo.  Augenstein  Miss   Phoebe   RulT 


Mrs.  Theo    Roessler 

Mrs.  Cal   Foor 

Mrs.  August  Chapman 

Mrs.  Frank  Stillwell 


Miss  Clara   Ruch 
Mrs.   Frank  Warner 
Mrs.   Peter  Luck 
Mrs.   Mansfield 


RIDGE 


Miss    Dora    Donnel,    Chairman 


Miss  Bessie   Fritz 

Miss  Ruth    Henry 

Miss  Myrtle   Cole 

Mrs.  K.  T).  Rarnett 

Mrs.  Charles   Hawk 


Mrs.  Ray  Killam 

Mrs.  Pearl   Hinterly 

Mrs.  C.  S.  Mattson 

Mrs.  Claude  Small 

"Trs.  Ural  Runkle 


Mrs.    Charles   Wolf 


PICKAWAY 

Miss    Laura    Syfert,    Chairman 

Mrs.  Walter   Conley  Mrs.  Wm.   C.  Keilman 

Miss    Edna    Gordon  Mrs.    F.   A.   Atkinson 

Mrs.  H.    M.    Pogue  Mrs     I.ogan  Pogue 

Miss   Nellie   Moore 

PENN 

Mrs.   Harvey  Stewart,   Chairman 
Mrs.    John   Tones  Mrs.    Guy  Cox 

Mrs.   E.  R.  Harper  Miss   Blanche   I.indley 

HOLLAND 

Mrs.   R.    P.   Dearing,    Chairman 
Atrs.  Retha   Rullington  Mrs.  A.   R.  Riechel 


Mrs.    Cyrus  Giles 
Mrs.    Bert  Slifer 
Mrs.   Nobel   Slifer 
Mrs.   Edw.   Beck 


Mrs.  Will    Marsh 

Mrs.  L.  A.  Ball 

Mrs.  R.   A.   Groves 

Mrs  Charles  Hopkins 


Mrs.    Lloyd   Musser 


CLARKSBURG 
Mrs.   John    Hickman,   Chairman 

Mrs.   J.    W.    Prosser  Mrs.    R.   R.   Smith 

Mrs.   I.  A.  Hickman  Mrs.   H.   H.   Lantz 

Mrs.  .1.   K.   Hoagland 

SHELBVVII.I.E 
0.    W.   Walker,    Chairman 

Mrs.   Harry  E.  Cook 
Mrs.   1!.   W.   Hudson 
Mrs    A.  E.  Dduthit 
Mrs.   Cuba  Martz 


Mrs.  J.   N.  Wortman 


Mrs. 

Mrs.  John  D.  Miller 
Mrs.  Irv  Waggoner 
Miss  Estelle  Gregory 


OKAW 

Mrs.    John    Cribbet,    Chairman 

Mrs.    Frank    Brown  Miss    Edna    Hendricks 

Mrs.    Fred  Olmstead  Mrs.    Minnie   Chisnhall 

Mrs.    Lindsey  Mrs.    Alice  Roberts 

Mrs.    Sam    Francisco 

TODDS  POINT 
E.    S.    Combs,    Chairman 

Mrs.    Belle  Debruler 
Mrs    Walter  Hudson 
Miss   Leta  Parr 

RICH  LAND 
Lizzie    Xorris,    Chairman 
Miss   Iva  Robb 
Miss   Lydia  Faster 
Mrs.    Ida  Weber 
Miss   Alma    Schaffer 


Mrs. 

Miss  Mabel  Combs 
Mrs.  Walter  Roney 
Mrs.  Sarah  Yantis 

Mrs. 

Mrs.   Frank  Shuck 
Miss  Grace    Turner 
Mrs.   Homer  Turney 


Mrs. 
Mrs. 


Mrs. 
Elmer  Pappert 


Emory   Hobson 
Mrs.  J.  H.  Arnold 
Mrs.   Herman  Appelt 
Mrs.   Orty  Webner 
Mrs.  John  Elbert 


PRAIRIE 
C.    Mautz,    Chairman 

Mrs.   A.  W.  Kearney 
Mrs.  S.   E.  Roley 
"rs.   Frank  Falk 
Mrs.  W.  F.  Rincker 
Mrs.   Wm.  Krumreich 


WINDSOR 
Mrs.   Clint  Firebaugh,  Chairman 

Mrs.   Grant  Olson  Mrs.  Tom  Anderson 

Mrs.    Luther  Hennigh  Miss  Hester  Gaddis 

Miss    Edith   Rogers 

BIG  SPRING 

Mrs.  John   C.   Quinn,   Chairman 

Miss   Leota  Storm  Miss   Landa  McClory 

Mrs.   Fred  Anderson  Miss  Amelia  Mettendorf 

Miss  Gertrude  McClory  Mrs    Claude  Beck 

Miss    Mary    Staab 

ASH  GROVE 

Miss    Edna   Storm,   Chairman 

Mrs.   Charles   Crockett  Mrs.   Oma  Weakley 

Mrs.   Robert    Burrell  Mrs.   Fred  Chamberlain 

Miss  Freda   Linville  Mrs.    Mabel    Abercrombie 

Mrs.  Cleve  Purkiser  Miss   Emma  Bridges 

Mrs.   Joe   Curry 

In    the    city    of    Shelbyville    the    solicitors    were, 
namely: 

WARD  NO.  1 

Mrs.   Geo.    L.   Richardson  Mrs.   William   Baum 

Mrs.   R.  T.    Eddy  Mrs.  Gertrude   Clark 

Mrs.  W.    II.   WyckotT  Mrs.   Fred    Klauser 

Miss    Olive    Filer 


WARD  NO.  2 


Mrs.   E.   N.  Herron 
Mrs.  Adolph    Reiss 
Mrs.   Homer  Fleming 
Mrs.    K.    A.    Hite 


Mrs.  Chas.   W.   Waggoner 
Mrs.   Ralph  B.  Lantz 
Mrs.  J.   C.   Willard 
Mrs.   Gils   Klauser 


Mrs.    Harry   Gundelfinger 

WARD  NO.  3 

Miss  Delia  Fitzgerald  Mrs.    K.  W.  Hamer 

Miss  Katherine   Pauschert  Mrs.   Henry    Pauschert 

Mrs.   Cecil  DeMonbrun  Mrs.  Joe  White 

Miss  Lois  Fisher 


WARD  NO.  4 


Mrs.  John    D.    Miller 

Miss  Mary   Fox 

Mrs.  Will   D.   Lumpp 

Mrs.  Walter   Klauser 

Mrs.  Emma  B.  McCormick 

Mrs.  L.    II.  Runkel 

Mrs.  Edgar   Leach 


Mrs.  Chas.    R.    Mertens 

Mrs.  R.    R.    Parrish 

Miss  Edna  Mae   Miller 

Mrs.  H.  Russell  Brown 

Mrs.  Ed   R.   Knecht 

Mrs.  Lillie   Rile 

'V'rs  N.    H.   Robertson 


Miss   Estelle   Igo 

In  other  school  districts  of  the  township  the 
solicitors,  all  of  whom  did  splendid  work,  were, 
namely: 

Dist.   No.  83 — Mrs  Grant  Forsythe. 

Hist    No.  85 — Mrs.   Bev  Hudson,  Miss  T'isha  Vest. 

Dist.   No.  86 — Mrs.  A.  E.  Douthit,  Mrs.   D.   E.   Elliot. 

Dist.   No.  87 — Mrs.  Cuba   Martz. 

Dist.   No.  89 — Mrs.    Paris   Rrown,    Mrs.    Ethel    Durst. 

Without  the  blare  of  trumpets,  the  woman's  or- 
ganization went  to  work  early,  perfected  plans  and 
put  them  into  such  splendid  execution  that  the  wom- 
en were  an  important  factor  in  the  success  that 
attended  the  campaign.  The  influence  of  the  organ- 
ization was  felt  in  the  remotest  corners  of  the  county, 
where  letters  and  literature  were  sent  in  abundance 
and  every  assistance  desired  was  given.  The  wom- 


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en's  committee  was  charged  with  the  distribution  of 
all  literature  in  this  campaign,  and  virtually  a  sub- 
station of  the  local  post  office  was  established  in  the 
home  of  the  county  chairman,  who  with  her  assist- 
ants worked  indefatigably  and  with  wonderful  ef- 
fectiveness. At  one  time  alone,  eleven  mail  sacks 
of  Victory  Loan  publicity  matter  was  dispatched  to 
the  outlying  points  of  the  county. 

A  PSALM  OF  THANKSGIVING 

Only  at  the  urgent  request  of  Mrs.  Walker,  who 
declares  it  to  have  been  a  potent  factor  in  the  suc- 
cess of  the  Victory  Liberty  Loan  campaign,  is  men- 
tion made  here  of  "A  Psalm  of  Thanksgiving,"  writ- 
ten by  the  chairman  of  the  publicity  committee  and 
used  extensively  not  only  in  Shelby  County  but  by 
the  district,  state  and  national  organizations,  as  well. 
Mrs.  Walker  used  three  editions  of  the  poster,  and 
sent  copies  of  it  to  state  and  national  headquarters, 
which  upon  its  receipt  asked  permission  to  use  it. 
This  was  granted.  Mrs.  Walker  states  that  hun- 
dreds of  these  posters,  each  accompanied  by  a  sub- 
scription blank,  were  sent  to  Shelby  County  people 
who  were  known  to  have  bought  no  bonds,  and  that 
in  nearly  every  instance  the  application  came  back 
with  a  generous  subscription.  The  "Psalm  of 
Thanksgiving"  is  reproduced  on  another  page,  also 
at  Mrs.  Walker's  request. 

In  the  official  report  of  the  Illinois  Woman's  Lib- 
erty Loan  Committee,  favorable  mention  was  made 
of  the  splendid  work  of  Mrs.  Walker  and  her  organ- 
ization, of  Miss  Bertha  Reiss,  director  of  the  For- 
eign Language  committee,  of  Miss  Lydia  Faster  of 
Strasburg,  who  sold  $11,000  worth  of  bonds  among 
people  of  a  foreign  tongue,  and  of  the  "Psalm  of 
Thanksgiving,"  which  was  mentioned  as  "a  very 
appealing  piece  of  propaganda." 

The  women  of  the  county  worked  with  such  devo- 
tion that  at  the  end  of  the  campaign  $566,440  of  the 
county's  quota  of  $1,066,950,  all  of  which  was  sub- 
scribed, was  directly  attributable  to  their  solicita- 
tion. 

One  incident  illustrative  of  the  sacrifice  and  ear- 
nest service  of  the  women,  was  in  the  action  of  two 
young  girls  in  the  northern  part  of  the  county,  who 
walked  a  distance  of  ten  miles  in  distributing  bills, 
urging  people  to  come  to  their  school  house  on 
allotment  day  and  buy  bonds. 

The  highest  individual  bond  purchase  recorded 
was  by  one  certain  woman,  who  evaded  the  treasury 
department's  rule  of  only  $10,000  to  a  person,  and 
bought  four  blocks  of  $10,000  each. 

Also,  the  highest  individual  bond  sale  recorded 
in  the  county  was  made  by  a  Moweaqua  woman,  who 
interviewed  a  farmer  before  he  got  to  the  bank  with 
the  money  he  had  just  received  in  the  sale  of  a  farm. 
and  sold  him  $50,000  worth  of  bonds. 

The  total  sales  by  the  women  in  the  four  loans 
amounted  to  the  magnificent  sum  of  $1,709,740.00. 

WOMAN'S  GLEE  CLUB 

Notable  in  the  Victory  Loan  campaign,  as  it  had 
been  in  other  war  work  drives,  was  the  work  of  the 
Woman's  Glee  Club.  It  was  composed  for  the  most 
part  of  working  women  and  girls  and  a  few  students, 
who  responded  cheerfully  to  calls  from  all  parts  of 
the  county,  and  sang  the  spirit  of  giving  into  the 
hearts  of  the  public.  Though  many  of  them  had  to 
be  up  and  at  work  or  study  early  in  the  morning,  they 
faltered  not  in  their  whole-hearted  service.  Three 
nights  in  succession  they  drove  a  distance  of  more 


than  thirty  miles  after  supper  to  sing  at  public  rallies 
and  loan  meetings,  not  reaching  their  homes  until  2 
o'clock  A.  M. 

Mrs.  Walker  has  the  distinction  of  being  one  of 
only  seven  women  chairmen  in  the  entire  state  of 
Illinois  who  "carried  on"  through  the  four  loans  to 
the  finish,  and  great  credit  is  due  her  for  the  fear- 
lessness, enthusiasm,  inspiration  and  effectiveness  of 
her  work  and  methods.  In  signal  recognition  of  her 
splendid  service,  she  .received  the  following  com- 
munication from  Carter  Glass,  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury: 

"Washington,  July  31,   1919. 
"My  Dear  Mrs.  Walker: 

"The  service  given  by  the  women  of  the  United 
States  to  the  work  of  the  Liberty  Loans  has  consti- 
tuted one  of  the  great  factors  in  the  winning  of  the 
war.  To  this  service,  made  possible  by  the  earnest, 
continuous  and  self-sacrificing  labor  of  the  local 
chairmen,  the  Treasury  Department  owes  inestimable 
gratitude:  and,  although  no  words  of  mine  will  ade- 
quately compensate  for  tasks  so  well  and  unselfishly 
performed,  it  is  my  pleasure  and  privilege,  in  behalf 
of  the  Department,  to  offer  you  appreciation  of  your 
service  as  well  as  congratulations  upon  the  success 
of  your  efforts  in  the  crisis  of  our  national  life. 

"Sincerely  yours, 

"CARTER  GLASS." 

The  five  hundred  women  of  the  organization  did 
their  work  cheerfully  and  gladly,  and  with  no  desire 
for  credit  or  honor.  It  was  done  as  a  Thank  Offer- 
ing to  the  Shelby  County  boys  who  went  "over 
there"  and  by  their  courage  and  bravery  and  self- 
sacrifice  helped  to  bring  the  war  to  a  speedy  close, 
thus  saving  the  lives  of  our  children  and  protecting 
our  homes. 


They  Did  Their  Most 

The  mettle  of  American  women  and  the  fine 
spirit  of  co-operation  with  which  they  assumed  the 
burdens  of  their  men  are  strikingly  and  concretely 
illustrated  by  the  activities  of  a  Shelbyville  girl, 
Miss  Ethel  Headley,  of  whom  brief  mention  is  made 
that  she  may  be  taken  as  an  example  of  myriads  of 
other  women  in  Shelby  County  and  throughout  the 
nation.  During  the  summer  of  1918  Miss  Headley, 
in  addition  to  household  duties,  mowed  25  acres  of 
hay.  When  it  was  properly  cured  she  raked  it  into 
windrows  and  put  it  in  cocks.  When  it  was  ready 
to  store,  she  loaded  the  entire  crop  on  the  wagon, 
and  operated  the  hayfork  which  carried  it  to  the 
mow.  Later  she  helped  cut  and  shock  a  large  field 
of  oats.  Furthermore,  Miss  Headley  gave  consider- 
able time  to  direct  war  work  in  various  depart- 
ments of  service,  and  had  several  thousand  dollars 
of  War  Savings  Stamp  sales  to  her  credit. 


Helped  the  Canteen 

The  patriotic  women  of  Windsor  and  Ash  Grove 
drew  favorable  attention  to  themselves  by  their 
splendid  co-operation  in  the  beneficent  work  of  the 
Canteen,  established  at  Mattoon  and  conducted 
there  for  many  months  in  the  interest  of  the  "boys" 
who  passed  through  that  city.  Regular  donations  of 
articles  of  food  for  distribution  to  the  soldiers  went 
forward  from  the  Windsor  and  Ash  Grove  women, 
and  their  service  was  deeply  appreciated  by  every 
person  concerned. 


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C.  E.  BOUNCER 
Chairman  United  War  Work 


L.  F.  AKEXHEAD 
Chairman  Y.  M.  C.  A. 


J.  J.  WARD 
Treasurer  of  Both 


The  Y.  M.  C.  A. 


Among  the  first  of  the  many  "drives"  for  the 
raising  of  war  funds  was  that  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Initial  steps  for  the  first  campaign  of  this  depart- 
ment of  the  war  work  were  taken  Sunday,  Nov.  4, 
1917,  in  a  conference  of  Decatur,  Moweaqua  and 
Shelbyville  men.  Judge  A.  J.  Steidley  and  D.  Leslie 
Davis  were  temporary  chairman  and  temporary  sec- 
retary, respectively. 

Permanent  organization  was  effected  at  a  con- 
ference and  banquet  on  Friday  evening,  Nov.  9, 
when  65  representative  men  of  Shelbyville  and  the 
county  at  large  participated  in  the  preliminary  work 
and  threw  themselves  definitely  into  the  campaign. 
Rev.  Ira  Allen  of  LaGrange  unfolded  the  purpose  of 
the  nation-wide  "Y"  drive,  declaring  it  to  be  to  give 
the  American  soldier  boys  a  chance  to  be  clean  and 
to  be  happy — to  do  for  them  in  the  field  what  we 
would  like  to  do  for  them  at  home — furnish  them 
clean,  healthful  amusement  and  recreation.  Mr.  G. 
H.  Cokendolpher  of  Mattoon  and  Mr.  R.  C.  Augus- 
tine of  Decatur  also  delivered  brief  addresses. 

Mr.  H.  S.  Hotton  of  Chicago,  business  manager 
of  the  campaign  in  Illinois,  gave  valuable  counsel  in 
the  organization  work,  in  which  Mr.  L.  F.  Akenhead 
was  elected  county  chairman  and  Mr.  C.  T.  DeMon- 
brun  county  secretary. 

It  was  decided  to  prosecute  the  work  in  Shelby 
County  through  community  auxiliaries,  rather  than 
through  township  organizations,  and  in  line  with 
this  plan  the  following  chairmen  were  named: 

E.  X.  Hcrron,  Shelbyville. 
W.   K.   Andrews,  Moweaqua. 
Ralph   Schwartz,   Findlay. 
Clyde  Howe,   Cowden. 
Robert   lirownback,  Tower  Hill. 
Edwin   H.   Faster,   Strasburg. 
J.  H.  Eddy,  Lakewood. 
lohn  C.  <  )uinn,  Trowbridge. 
K.  I).  Ke'rr,  Westervelt. 
Wm.  G.  Furr,  Rose. 

Each  chairman  selected  a  committee  of  several 
members  for  his  community,  to  cover  the  immediate 
and  contiguous  territory,  and  the  work  was  carried 


on  by  personal  solicitation  and  through  public  meet- 
ings, in  which  "flying  squadrons"  of  speakers  who 
were  drafted  for  the  work  delivered  addresses  nightly 
during  the  week  of  the  intensive  drive — Nov.  11-18. 
The  first  speaking  campaign  was  on  Sunday,  Nov. 
11,  when  speakers  from  the  organization  spoke  from 
practically  every  pulpit  in  Shelby  County. 

During  the  week  churches,  school  houses  and 
other  public  buildings  were  thrown  open,  and  men 
from  the  county  seat  and  elsewhere  used  their  best 
endeavors  to  inspire  the  people  with  the  spirit  of 
giving,  to  the  end  that  the  county's  quota  of  $7,500 
of  the  Nation's  $35,000,000  be  raised.  Some  men 
spoke  as  often  as  three  times  in  one  evening,  hurry- 
ing from  one  point  to  another  while  local  chairmen 
remained  behind  to  reap  where  the  speakers  had 
sown. 

The  Woman's  Glee  Club  of  Shelbyville,  which 
did  heroic  work  throughout  the  war  period,  threw 
itself  into  the  "Y"  campaign  with  singular  devotion, 
and  sang  at  many  points  in  the  county.  The  Stras- 
burg band  did  good  service  in  helping  Chairman 
Faster  put  Richland  township  "over  the  top,"  playing 
nightly  during  the  week  at  the  school  houses,  and 
even  serving  at  two  different  points  on  some  of  the 
evenings. 

Chairman  Akenhead  brought  the  campaign  to  a 
successful  finish  in  a  big  jubilee  at  the  First  Meth- 
odist church  in  Shelbyville  on  Monday  evening,  Nov. 
19,  when  the  happy  consummation  of  putting  Shelby 
County  "over  the  top"  with  an  exceess  subscription 
of  several  thousand  dollars  was  celebrated  in  a  Jubi- 
lee service.  The  Shelbyville  orchestra,  the  Big  Four 
Quartet  and  the  Woman's  Glee  Club  furnished  inspir- 
ing music,  R.  C.  Augustine  and  two  or  three  other 
business  men  of  Decatur  delivered  addresses,  the  au- 
dience was  given  another  opportunity  to  contribute 
to  the  fund,  and  everyone  was  in  a  happy  mood. 

It  was  announced  by  Chairman  Akenhead  that  the 
county's  quota  had  been  oversubscribed,  the  total 
donations  at  that  time  being  $9,700.68.  Later  sub- 
scriptions brought  the  grand  total  to  about  $11,000, 
an  oversubscription  of  about  33J/3  per  cent.  Notable 


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excess  subscriptions  were  in  Moweaqua,  where  with 
a  quota  of  $426,  the  sum  of  $2,004  was  given,  and  in 
Shelby ville,  where  with  a  quota  of  $1,000,  a  total  of 
$2,223  was  subscribed. 

The   tabulated   report   from   the   county  at  large 
was  as  follows: 

Township                                             Quota  Subscriber! 

Ash   Grove    $  276  $    643.00 

Dry    Point    315  116. 50 

Flat   Branch    201  372.25 

Holland    446  384.50 

Lakewood    252  210.00 

Moweaqua      426  2,004.00 

Okaw  and  Todd's   Point   584  771.00 

Penn      126  478.00 

Pickaway      184  433.65 

Richland     326  404.35 

Ridge     259  350.00 

Rose    316  227.00 

Shelbyville     1,000  2,223.00 

Tower  Hill    434  588.30 

Prairie      496  495.13 


D.  Leslie  Davis 


PUBLICITY 
Thos.   li.  Shoaff 


Isaac  S.   Storm 


Total  (as  reported)   $9,700.68 

Just  after  the  campaign  closed,  Windsor  sent  in 
nearly  $1,000,  and  $126  came  from  St.  Mary's  church, 
north  of  Shelbyville,  where  a  group  of  Moweaqua 
men  held  a  meeting  on  the  night  of  the  jubilee  meet- 
ing in  Shelbyville,  thus  bringing  the  grand  total  well 
up  toward  $11,000. 

United  War  Work  Campaign 

Shelby  County's  greatest  beneficent  project,  from 
a  monetary  standpoint,  was  the  raising  of  more  than 
$40,000  for  the  United  War  Work. 

In  the  fall  of  1918  a  movement  was  started  to 
raise  a  fund  of  $112,000,000  as  a  Second  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
War  Fund,  and  a  district  of  five  counties,  of  which 
Shelby  was  one,  was  assigned  $135,000  of  this 
amount.  However,  before  the  date  of  the  drive, 
which  was  designed  to  follow  the  Fourth  Liberty 
Loan,  was  determined  and  its  machinery  perfected, 
the  leaders  of  the  several  organizations  that  were 
giving  support  to  war  work  conceived  the  idea  of 
uniting  the  funds  and  going  before  the  people  of  the 
country  with  a  request  for  a  huge  sum,  amounting  to 
$170.500,000,  to  be  distributed  among  the  various  or- 
ganizations, as  follows: 

Young    Men's    Christian    Association $100,000,000 

Young  Women's   Christian  Association 15,000,000 

National    Catholic    War    Council 30,000,000 

Jewish   Welfare    Board    3,500,000 

War  Camp  Community  Service 15,000,000 

Salvation    Army    3,50-9,000 

American   Library  Association    3,500,000 

The  plan  of  amalgamation  struck  the  popular 
fancy  and  the  Xation  set  itself  to  the  task  of  donat- 
ing nearly  two  hundred  million  dollars  for  beneficent 
and  humanitarian  work  in  and  about  the  moboliza- 
tion  camps  in  this  country  and  among  the  soldiers 
overseas.  In  fact,  just  a  little  later  the  amount  de- 
sired was  increased  fifty  per  cent.,  and  the  public 
cheerfully  took  on  the  additional  burden. 

In  Shelby  County,  of  which  $28,502  originally  was 
asked,  and  later  $42,900,  the  first  steps  in  organizing 
for  the  campaign  were  taken  Tuesday  evening,  Sept. 
17,  when  the  following  officers  were  elected: 

Chairman — C.   E.   Bolinger. 

Secretary-treasurer — John  J.  Ward. 

Chairman  Bolinger  at  once  named  the  following 
committees: 

GENERAL 

D.  Leslie  Davis 
Chas.  W.  Waggoner 

E.  N.  Herron 
V.   E.   Mullins 
T.  B.  Shoaff 

J.  A.  lierchtold 
C.  R.  Ellison 
A.   B.   Storm 

F.  W.  Risser 


I.  S.  Storm 
I..  C.  Westervelt 
E.    E.    Herron 
N.   C.    Leathers 
W.  K.  Andrews 
T.  A.  Werner 
R.   E.   Prater 
T.  K.  Hoagland 
A.   W.  Askins 


Shortly  thereafter  the  organization  was  extended 
by  naming  an   executive   committee,  representatives 
of  the  several  organizations  benefiting  by  the  cam- 
paign   and    the    township    chairmen,    both    men    and 
women.     These  are  as  follows,  namely: 
EXECUTIVE   COMMITTEE 
L.   F.   Akenhead  P.   Leslie  Davis 

1.   S.   Storm  T.    B.   Shoaff 

E.  N.  Herron  E.  E.  Herron 

•C.  W.  Waggoner  V.   E.    Mullins 

N.    C.    Leathers 

REPRESENTATIVES    OF   UNITED    SOCIETIES 
Y    M    C.  A. — L.  F.  Akenhead. 
Y.   W.   C.   A. — Mrs.   C.    E.  Walker. 
National   Catholic  War  Council — V:   E.  Mullins. 
Salvation   Army — L.   C.    Westervelt. 
Jewish  Welfare  Board— E.  R.   Goldstein. 

War  Camp  Community  Service  and  American  Library 
Association — C.  W.  Waggoner. 

Victory   Boys — N.  II.   Robertson. 
Victory   Girls — Miss  Georgie  T.   Hopkins. 

TOWNSHIP  CHAIRMEN 

Oconee— J.   A.  Werner,   Mrs.   Sallie   M.   Hill. 
Herrick— Chas.    Moon,   Mrs.    C.   W.   Kesler. 
Cold  Spring — Guy  Foster,  Mrs.  William  Morrison. 
Tower  Hill— C.  R.  Ellison,  Mrs.  E.  G.  Foster. 
Rural — Edw.   C.   Eberspacher,   Mrs.   Edw.   Eberspacher. 
Flat  Branch — Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lewis  Kuhle,   Mrs.  M.  A.  Dun- 
can. 

Moweaqua — W.  K.  Andrews,  Miss  Ailene  Day. 

Dry   Point— B.   E.   Prater,  Mrs.   Delta  Savers. 

Lakewood — Mrs.    Fred   Brant,   Mrs.    Edna  Bechtel. 

Rose— J.    E.   Kieffer,    Mrs.    Clarence   Tice. 

Ridge — E.  D.  Kerr,  Miss  Rplfa  Barrickman. 

Pickaway — Mrs.   Wm.  Rawlings,  Miss  Frances  Rogers. 

Penn— Claud  Baird,   Mrs.   Floyd  Weakly. 

Holland — Frank  Larimer,  Miss  Ada  May  Robinson. 

Clarksburg — T.   E.  Gallagher,   Mrs.  James  Wortman. 

Shelbyville— L.  F.  Akenhead,  Mrs.  C.   E.  Walker. 

Okaw — C.  E.  Coventry,  Miss  Lizzie  Dazey. 

Todd's  Point— Mrs.  J.  R.  Snapp. 

Prairie— R.  Voris,  Miss   Effa  Beck. 

Richland— F.  W.  Risser,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Weber. 

Windsor — Albert  R.   Storm,   Miss   Ida  Barber. 

Sii?el — John   Berchtold,  A.  W.   Bigler. 

Big  Spring — Tohn  C.  Ouinn,   Miss  Gertrude  McClory. 

Ash  Grove— H.  C.  May,  Mrs.  H.  C.  May. 

The  co-chairmen  immediately  organized  their 
school  districts  and  the  campaign  machinery  was 
well  oiled  and  working  nicely  before  the  date  of  the 
great  nation-wide  drive — Nov.  11-18 — in  which  the 
largest  amount  of  money  that  any  people  has  ever 
been  asked  to  raise  in  the  form  of  a  free  will  offer- 
ing for  any  cause  in  the  history  of  the  world,  was 
asked. 

In  preparation  for  the  active  campaign  and  to 
engender  enthusiasm  and  the  spirit  of  giving,  a  big 
mass  meeting  was  held  in  the  county  seat  on  the 
afternoon  of  Sunday,  Nov.  3.  The  speaker  was  Dr. 
W.  C.  Sinsabaugh,  an  eloquent  Chicago  Jew,  who 
caught  the  attention  and  interest  of  his  audience  at 
once,  when  in  calling  for  wholehearted  co-operation 
he  said: 

"Now  that  we  have  taken  the  'bull'  out  of  Bul- 
garia and  the  'turk'  out  of  Turkey,  we  must  not  stop 
until  we  have  knocked  the  'dam'  out  of  Potsdam  and 
'hell'  out  of  Wilhelm." 

Dr.  Sinsabaugh  sounded  the  keynote  for  the  cam- 
paign, into  which  the  workers  entered  with  an  en- 
thusiasm and  singleness  of  purpose  that  amounted 
almost  to  an  obsession,  and  which  carried  Shelby 
County  far  beyond  its  original  goal  and  well  on  to 
the  attainment  of  the  increased  quota.  Business  and 
professional  men  gave  days  of  their  time:  Chairman 
Bolinger  worked  far  into  each  night;  the  Women's 
Glee  Club  rode  all  over  the  county  and  splendidly 
performed  their  service  of  song;  men  unaccustomed 
to  public  speaking  but  becoming  eloquent  under  the 
spell  of  the  righteous  cause,  moved  audiences  here 
and  there  to  generous  donations;  men.  women  and 
children  gave  of  their  little  or  much,  happy  in  deny- 


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ing   themselves   that    the   purpose    of   their    sacrifice 
might  be  attained. 

With  the  original  quota  all  townships  except 
Penn,  Flat  Branch,  Pickaway,  Todd's  Point,  Cold 
Spring  and  Herrick  were  "over  the  top,"  though  with 
the  increased  quota  only  Shelbyville,  Rural,  Rose, 
Richland  and  Sigel  were  able  to  reach  that  plane. 
These  ranged  from  an  oversubscription  of  $5.00  in 
Richland  to  $4.196.33  in  Shelbyville. 

Local  officials  of  the  campaign  were  advised  after 
the  drive  that  the  head  office  of  the  United  War 
Work  Campaign  in  Illinois  would  not  take  the  in- 
creased quota  into  account,  but  make  its  report  on 
the  basis  of  the  original  quota  alone.  On  this  basis 
Shelby  County's  report  was  as  follows: 


Township  Quota 

Oconee    $   1 ,262 

Herrick     593 

Cold  Spring 640 

Tower   Hill    ,115 

Rural     ,314 

Flat     Branch     347 

Moweaqua    ,543 

Dry    Point    692 

Lakewood      605 

Rose    074 

Ridge     533 

Pickaway    253 

Penn    138 

Holland  and   Clarksburg   871 

Shelbyville      006 

Okaw     ,290 

Todd's    Point    839 

Prairie     632 

Richland    711 

Windsor     ,307 

Sigel    620 

Big   Spring    741 

Ash    Grove    1,476 


Totals   $28,502 


Amt.  Raised 

$   1,351.20 

285.25 

592.25 

1,651.45 

2,063.89 

1,132.00 

2,314.00 

823.70 

658.95 

1,790.52 

2,009.88 

900.20 

587.02 

1.142.77 

10,205.33 

1,562.02 

615.95 

2,252.88 

2,573.00 

1,960.00 

976.18 

804.50 

1,503.20 

$39,756.14 


Considering  the  fact  that  of  the  final  quota  of 
something  like  $255,750,000  in  the  country  at  large, 
only  about  $202.000,000  was  subscribed,  Shelby 
County's  achievement  in  raising  all  but  a  trifle  more 
than  $3,000  of  her  increased  quota,  $42,900,  is  a 
notable  record  and  one  for  which  the  leaders  re- 
sponsible for  the  splendid  success  were  compli- 
mented by  the  high  officials.  Coming  immediately 
on  the  heels. of  the  Fourth  Liberty  Loan  campaign 
in  which  Shelby  County  was  asked  to  and  did  loan 
the  government  more  than  a  million  and  a  quarter 
of  dollars,  the  free  gift  of  nearly  $40,000  for  the 
allied  causes  was  no  small  thing  to  accomplish;  but 
with  a  consciousness  of  the  great  need  and  the  just- 
ness of  the  cause  the  men  who  took  the  matter  thor- 
oughly upon  their  hearts  gloriously  succeeded. 

C.  E.  Bolinger,  reluctantly  acceding  to  the  de- 
mands of  those  who  believed  they  saw  in  him  ele- 
ments of  leadership  that  were  required  to  put  the  big 
job  over,  accepted  the  chairmanship  and  threw  him- 
self, body  and  soul,  into  the  work.  From  that  time 
until  the  drive  ended  he  was  busy  day  and  night,  giv- 
ing himself  to  the  campaign  with  a  singleness  of 
purpose  that  augured  ill  for  his  private  interests  but 
well  for  the  United  War  Work  cause. 

His  right  hand  man  was  the  secretary-treasurer, 
John  J.  Ward,  whose  experience  in  the  former  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  drive  and  systematic  handling  of  the  details  of 
the  work  were  valuable  assets.  Both  men  worked 
heroically,  and  were  given  valiant  assistance  by 
scores  of  men  and  women  in  Shelbyville  and  through- 
out the  county,  to  the  end  that  Shelby  went  far 
beyond  her  minimum  quota  and  sustained  splendidly 
her  reputation  for  generous  giving. 


Lutheran   Soldiers'    and   Sailors'   Welfare 


Patriotically  loyal  and  instant  in  their  response  to 
calls  for  aid,  the  Lutherans  of  Shelby  County  did  a 
tine  piece  of  work  in  putting  the  county  "over  the 
top"  in  the  week's  intensive  campaign,  Feb.  18-26, 
1918,  to  raise  their  quota  of  the  $750,000  asked  for 
one  year  war-time  spiritual  service  to  soldiers  and 
sailors.  The  people  of  this  religious  denomination 
rallied  magnificently  to  the  call. 

In  Shelbyville  the  quota  was  $250,  and  the  cam- 
paign was  managed  by  the  Rev.  J.  K.  Kiefifer,  pastor 
of  St.  Paul's  Evangelical  Lutheran  church,  who  ap- 
pointed the  following  assistants: 


W.  F.  Aichele 
1.    C.    Wendling 
Take  Augenstein 
Mrs.  Adolph  Reiss 
Mrs.   Birney  S.  Kite 
Miss  Lillie  Stegmayer 


(^us    Mochel 

Lewis   Biehler 

lohn   Ruff 

Miss  Catherine   Pauschert 

Miss  Clara  Waggoner 

Miss  Ruby  Roessler 


With  a  quota  of  $250,  the  church  raised  $405, 
while  the  Nation's  call  for  $750,000  was  increased  by 
subscriptions  totaling  more  than  a  million  dollars. 
While  the  appeal  primarily  was  for  aid  for  Lutheran 
soldiers  and  sailors,  the  ministry  made  possible  by 
the  generous  donations  of  the  people  was  extended 
to  service  men  of  other  denominations,  as  well. 


Five  Grandsons  in  the  War 

George  W.  Wade  of  Shelbyville.  a  veteran  of  the 
Civil  War  and  a  patriot  still,  derived  great  satis- 
faction from  the  fact  that  the  patriotic  loyalty  which 
prompted  his  bearing  of  arms  in  the  60's  was  in- 
stilled so  deeply  into  his  posterity  that  no  less  than 
five  of  his  grandsons  served  Uncle  Sam  in  the  mili- 
tary department  throughout  the  World  War.  Three 
of  these,  Frank  Wade,  Elmer  Flowers  and  Delbert 
Flowers,  went  from  Shelby  County,  while  the  other 
two,  Walter  Smith  and  Oscar  Smith  of  Burbank, 
S.  D.,  were  members  of  a  company  of  engineers 
of  the  Seventh  South  Dakota  regiment.  Elmer 
Flowers  is  credited  with  being  the  first  Shelby 
County  man  to  reach  France  after  war  was  declared. 
He  enlisted  April  3,  1917,  anticipating  the  President's 
declaration  of  war  by  several  days,  and  accompanied 
General  Pershing  to  France  when  he  was  sent  there 
at  the  head  of  the  American  Expeditionary  Force. 


Made  Himself  "Fit" 

Charles  S.  Engel  of  Stewardson  displayed  true 
patriotism  and  proved  himself  really  eager  to  get 
into  the  fray  with  the  enemy,  when  after  having  been 
rejected  after  being  sent  to  Camp  Dix,  because  of 
physical  disability,  submitted  himself  to  treatment 
that  remedied  the  defect  and  then  wrote  the  Local 
Board  as  follows: 

"I  consider  myself  now  fit  for  service,  and  am 
ready  for  a  call  for  examination." 

Engel  got  the  examination,  and  when  a  selected 
man  asked  for  deferred  induction,  was  given  his 
chance  by  being  substituted  and  given  immediate 
induction. 

This  spirit  also  pervaded  other  men.  particularly 
in  the  summer  and  fall  of  1918.  and  there  always  was 
a  waiting  list  with  the  Local  Board,  of  men  who  de- 
sired preference  in  call  to  service. 


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a  week, 
help  win 
the  war 


Counties   Auxiliary    Committee,    State   Council    of    Defense 


The  parent  committee,  out  of  which  grew  the 
County  Neighborhood  Committees  through  which  it 
was  intended  to  co-ordinate  the  war  work  of  the 
county,  and  the  County  Executive  Committee  of  the 
State  Council  of  Defense,  was  the  Counties  Auxiliary 
Committee,  appointed  late  in  1917  and  composed  of 
the  following  named  persons: 

John    C.   Quinn,  chairman,   Trowbridge. 

Ralph    E.    Voris,   Stewardson. 

Ralph  W.   Snyder,   Moweaqua. 

Thos.   B.   Shoaff,  Shelbyville. 

Miss  Georgie  T.  Hopkins,  Shelbyville. 

This  committee,  appointed  by  the  Counties  Aux- 
iliary of  the  State  Council  of  Defense,  was  directed 


to  take  the  initiative  in  the  formation  of  the  County 
Executive  Committee,  which  at  that  time  was  com- 
posed of  the  following  persons: 

John    C.   Quinn,   chairman    County   Auxiliary   Committee. 
Miss  Georgie  T.  Hopkins,  chairman  Woman's  Organization. 
Walter  J.   James,   Industrial   Labor   Representative. 
Geo.    B.    Herrick,   chairman   Liberty    Loan    Committee. 
Jacob  A.   Lovins,  chairman   Food   Production  Committee. 
Dr.    C.    Henri    Bogart,    chairman    Federal    Fuel    Administra- 
tion  Committee. 

Dr.  J.  C.  Westervelt,  chairman   War  Savings  Committee. 

This  committee   entered   actively  upon   its   work, 
and  effectively  discharged  the  duties  placed  upon  it. 


Neighborhood  Committees  of  State  Council  of  Defense 


Organization  of  the  Shelby  County  Neighborhood 
Committees  of  the  State  Council  of  Defense  was  per- 
fected in  a  meeting  held  in  the  circuit  court  room  at 
the  court  house  in  Shelbyville  on  Wednesday,  March 
6,  1918,  when  as  a  feature  of  the  meeting  which 
called  more  than  120  representative  men  from  all 
parts  of  the  county  together  to  lend  further  aid  to 
war  work,  Ex-Governor  Richard  Yates  of  Springfield 
delivered  a  patriotic  address. 

At  the  assembling  of  the  meeting  at  1  o'clock. 
Temporary  Chairman  Geo.  B.  Rhoads  introduced 
Mrs.  Josephine  Clement,  organizer  for  the  State 
Council  of  Defense,  who  clearly  and  succinctly  stated 
the  purpose  of  the  Neighborhood  Committees,  de- 
claring it  to  be  for  the  purpose  of  diffusing  patriot- 
ism, combatting  disloyalty  and  aiding  the  govern- 
ment in  any  project  that  it  desires  carried  to  the 
people. 

With  the  approval  of  the  members  of  the  local 
units,  Hon.  John  W.  Yantis  and  Chas.  E.  Keller, 
both  of  Shelbyville,  were  made  permanent  chairman 
and  secretary,  respectively,  of  the  Neighborhood 
Committees.  Mr.  Yates  was  then  introduced  and 
delivered  his  address. 

Following  discussion  of  plans  and  purposes  and 
arranging  for  community  meetings  in  various  parts 
of  the  county,  the  body  named  the  following  execu- 
tive committee: 

John   W.   Yantis,   chairman,    Shelbyville. 

Chas.    E.   Keller,   secretary,   Shelbyville. 

S.  S.   Clapper,   Moweaqua. 

Louis  Kuhle,  Flat   Branch. 

George  Galster,  Rural. 

Charles  Ash,  Tower  Hill. 

Charles  F.  Hunter,  Cold  Spring. 

J.  A.  Werner,  Oconee. 


G.  S.  Bolt,  Herrick. 
Homer   Hunter,   Pickaway. 
Ira   Baird,  Jr.,   Penn. 
E.  D.  Barnett,  Ridge. 
J.   E.   Kieffer,   Rose. 
J.  H.   Eddy,   Lakewood. 
John   W.   Conrad,    Dry    Point. 
O.    E.   Stumpf,   Okaw. 
Edward  Jones,  Todd's  Point. 
Leo   F.   Akenhead,   Shelbyville. 
J.  K.  Hoagland,  Clarksburg. 
J.   E.  Gallagher,   Holland. 
B.   F.   Moberley,   Windsor. 
Dexter  Mahoney,  Windsor. 
Henry  Faster,  Jr.,  Richland. 
Ralph  Voris,   Prairie. 
Warren   Purktser,  Ash  Grove. 
John  C.  Quinn,   Big  Spring. 
John    Berchtold,  Sigel. 

CENTERS  COMMITTEES 

The  Centers  Committees,  named  to  represent  the 
various  communities  of  the  county,  were  named  as 
follows: 

MOWEAQUA,  MOWEAQUA  TOWNSHIP 
S.   S.  Clapper,  Chairman  Gid  Housh 

Harry   Day  M.   K.   Andrews 

Ralph  Snyder  Ralph  Ayars 

FLAT  BRANCH  TOWNSHIP 
Aubrey  Duncan  Louis  Kuhle,  Chairman 

DOLLVILLE,  RURAL  TOWNSHIP 
George   Galster,   Chairman  Trios.    C.   Cartmell 

W.    E.    Killam 

TOWER    HILL,    WEST   HALF    OF    ROSE,   TOWER    HILL 

TOWNSHIP 

Charles  Ash,  Chairman  H.   H.   Runkel 

John  W.  Rhodes 

COLD   SPRING,  SCHOOL  HOUSE 
Chas.  F.  Hunter,  Chairman  William  Morrison 

Abe  Smith  James  Johnston 


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Miss  MARY  Fox 


Miss  GEORGIE  T.  HOPKINS        Miss  CLARE  B.  SHOAFF 


MRS.  AKTHA  KELLY 


HERRICK,   HERRICK  TOWXSHIP 


G.  S.   Bolt,  Chairman 
M.   L.  Turner 
William   Waters 


C.  W.  Kesler 
Roscoe  T.   Clark 
Robert    Woolarcl 


OCOXEE,    OCOXEE    TOWXSHIP 

J.  A.  Werner,  Chairman  II.  Ir.  Grote 

Ben   P.  Allen  Austin    Ilemlricks 

I.  W.  Patterson 

YAXTISVILLE,    PICKAWAY   TOWXSHIP 

Homer  Hunter,  Chairman  Edward  Cole 

Harry   Rawlings  Levi   Corley 

TOWX  HALL,   PEXX  TOWXSHIP 
Claud  Baird,  Chairman  John   E.  Carman 

Mr.   Senna  H.  S.  Thompson 

Harley  G.   Stewart 

WESTERVELT,    RIDGE    TOWXSHIP 
E.  D.  Barnett,  Chairman  II.  Christman,  Jr. 

E.  D.  Kerr  Rrvant  Corley 

J.   C.  Calvert 

SAXDY    HILL    SCHOOL,    ROSE   TOWXSHIP 
T.    E.    Kieffer,    Chairman  Theo.    Roessler 

Frank   Stillwell  Frank  Warner 

Jos.    L.    White 

LAKEWOOD,    LAKEWOOD    TOWXSHIP 


J.  H.  Eddy,  Chairman 
C.  A.  Askins 
Joseph  Lucas 


Sandy  Price 
Henry    C.   Austin 
Caleb  Bowman 


COWDEX,  DRY  POIXT  TOWXSHIP 


John  W.   Conrad,  Chairman 
O.  A.  Jewett 


A.   Ward   Moore 
S.  S.  Scovill 


TODD'S    POIXT,    TODD'S    POIXT   TOWXSHIP 
Edward  Jones,  Chairman  Harry    Surman 

Thomas  Enoch  Harry  Foster 

FIXDLAY,  OKAW  AXD  TODD'S  POIXT  TOWXSHIPS 
O.   E.  Stumpf,  Chairman  C.   E.  Coventry 

C.    E.    Pogue  R.  D.  Miner 

Thomas   Xewby  Fred   Olmstead 

CLARKSBURG,    HOLLAXD    TOWXSHIP 
James  Wortman  J.  W.  Prosser 

L.   Spannagel  I.  K.  Hoagland,  Chairman 

W.   R.    Shuff 


MODE,   HOLLAXD  TOWXSHIP 

I.   E.  Gallagher,  Chairman  Flovd   F.    Yakey 

W.   B.  Lantz  ".    O.   Clausen 

Leonard   Moomaw 

WIXDSOR,   WIXDSOR  TOWXSIIIP 
George   Garvin,   Chairman  Joseph  McLain 


E.   G.   Munsell 


C    H.   Sexson 
W.    H.    Gaddis 


QUIGLEY,    WIXDSOR   TOWXSHIP 

Dexter  Mahoney,  Chairman          T.   Will   Ilerron 
Ransom  Robison  Chas.    L.    Reynolds 

STRASBURG,    RICHLAXD    AND    PRAIRIE    TOWXSHIPS 

Henry   Faster,  Jr.,  Chairman       T.  A.   Garner 
Martin   Kull  Abe  Young 

C.    F.    Rincker 

STEWARDSOX,  PRAIRIE  TOWXSHIP 
Ralph  Voris,  Chairman  D.    M.   Duddlesten 


William  Frede 
Harry    York 


William    Bailey 
Albert   Meitzner 


SEXSOX,    ASH    GROVE    TOWXSHIP 
Sylvester  Clawson,   Chairman       Warren    Purkiser 
Eli    Storm  R.   O.  Watson 

John    McAlister 

TROWBRIDGE,  BIG  SPRIXG  TOWXSHIP 
John  C.  Quinn,   Chairman  Joseph    Schinzler 

Marion    Ouicksall 

SIGEL,   SIGEL  TOWXSHIP 

lohn   Berchtold,  Chairman  Frank   E.   McCormick 

Ben  H.  Kunkler  Philip  Hanfland 

William    Paxton 

SHELBYVILLE 

Leo   F.    Akenhead,   Chairman        Isaac  S.   Storm 
A.   L.  Yantis  H.   D.   Sparks 

S.  B.  Jackson  lohn  J.  Ward 

L.  C.  Westervelt  E.  E.  Herron 

The  Neighborhood  Committees  organization  was 
active  throughout  the  war,  performing  splendidly  the 
task  for  which  it  was  created. 


Woman's  Committee  of  the  Council  of  National  Defense 


So  to  co-ordinate  the  activities  and  the  resources 
of  the  organized  and  unorganized  women  of  the 
country  that  their  power  might  be  immediately  util- 
ized in  time  of  need,  and  to  supply  a  new  and  direct 
channel  of  communication  and  co-operation  between 
women  of  governmental  departments,  was  the  pur- 
pose of  the  Woman's  Committee  of  the  Council  of 
National  Defense,  a  unit  of  which  was  established  in 


Shelby  County  with  the  appointment  of  Miss  Georgie 
T.  Hopkins  as  chairman. 

The  organization  was  completed  by  the  appoint- 
ment of  the  following: 

Vice   Chairman — Mrs.   S.   S.   Crook. 

Secretary- — Mrs.  W.  C.  Kelley. 

Treasurer — Miss  Mary  Fox. 


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The  departments  of  the  Woman's  Committee  in- 
. eluded  the  following,  some  of  which,  however,  were 
not  adaptable  to  local  conditions,  hence  were  not 
.actively  developed: 

Registration   for  Service. 

Food  Production. 

Food  Conservation. 

Women   in   Industry. 

Child  Welfare. 

Maintaining  Existing  Social  Service  Agencies. 

Safeguarding  Moral  and  Spiritual  Forces. 

Educational  Propaganda. 

Liberty  Loans. 

Red  Cross  and  Allied  Relief. 

Those  familiar  with  the  splendidly  comprehensive 
work  of  the  women  in  Shelby  County  during  the 
.course  of  the  war  will  readily  recognize  the  avenues 
through  which  they  worked.  Miss  Hopkins'  able 
assistants,  named  by  her  as  chairmen  of  the  various 
departments,  were: 

Finance — Miss  Mary  Fox. 

Hospital  Supply,  Red  Cross — Mrs.  Mollie  Isen- 
berg. 

Home  Charities — Mrs.  Agnes  Hamlin  Mertens. 

Registration — Miss  Clare  Shoaff. 

Social  Hygiene — Mrs.  F.  P.  Auld. 

Women  in  Industry — Mrs.  Irvin  Waggoner. 

Publicity — Miss  Edna  Conn. 

Co-Ordination — Mrs.  J.  D.  Miller. 

Allied   Relief— Mrs.   Rella  W.   Hoover. 

Child  Welfare— Mrs.  S.  S.  Crook. 

Food  Production — Mrs.  F.  C.  Bolinger. 

Food  Conservation — Mrs.  F.  O.  Bisdee. 

The  State  Council  of  Defense  did  a  magnificent 
piece  of  work  all  over  the  state,  but  its  activities 
largely  had  to  do  with  questions  concerning  military 
matters,  finance,  crops,  labor,  business,  etc.,  while 
the  Woman's  Committee  had  to  do  more  with  the 
women  and  children  and  with  the  practical  details  of 
the  home.  It  dealt  mainly  with  human  beings. 

CHILD  WELFARE  DEPARTMENT 

One  avenue  through  which  the  work  of  this  com- 
mittee was  done  was  the  Child  Welfare  Department. 
Under  the  general  direction  of  Mrs.  S.  S.  Crook, 
many  children  in  Shelbyville  and  throughout  the 
county  were  weighed  and  measured,  the  work  being 
done  at  different  times  over  a  long  period.  With  the 
weighing  and  measuring,  the  parents  were  given  in- 
struction as  to  the  proper  care  of  the  children,  that 
the  child  life  of  the  county  might  be  conserved  in 
harmony  with  the  state-  and  nation-wide  plan.  A 
great  deal  of  literature  was  distributed,  and  even  the 
school  boys  became  intensely  interested  in  the  sub- 
ject. Mrs.  Joseph  T.  Bowen,  State  Chairman,  told 
of  one  lad  who  wrote  a  composition  in  which  he  said: 
"Xow  that  we  are  at  war,  it  is  everybody's  business 
to  have  a  baby  and  to  save  it!" 

Out  of  this  work  developed  the  school  nurse  who 
was  and  still  is  employed  to  look  after  the  physical 
welfare  of  the  school  children  in  Shelbyville. 

ALLIED  RELIEF 

Early  in  the  war  activities  the  Allied  Relief  Work 
was  undertaken  in  Shelby  County  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  Woman's  Committee,  C.  X.  D.,  with  Mrs. 
Rella  W.  Hoover  as  County  Chairman. 

The  making  and  shipping  of  clothing  to  Belgian 
refugees  was  undertaken,  the  work  being  done  prin- 
cipally from  three  centers — Shelbyville,  Findlay  and 
Clarksburg.  Mrs.  Arthur  Birkett  of  Findlay  and  the 
Misses  Mel  Compton  and  Verna  Ragan  of  Clarks- 


burg co-operated  splendidly  with  Mrs.  Hoover  and 
the  women  of  Shelbyville,  and  many  hundreds  of 
aprons,  dresses  and  boys'  waists  were  shipped  to 
destitute  Belgian  children. 

The  campaign  for  the  adoption  of  Fatherless 
Children  of  France,  directed  by  Mrs.  Hoover,  also 
was  waged  very  successfully.  The  "adoption"  con- 
sisted in  furnishing  sustenance  for  such  children  at 
the  cost  of  $36.50  each  per  annum,  this  amount  added 
to  the  French  government  allowance  being  sufficient 
to  maintain  the  child  and  make  it  possible  for  it  to 
remain  with  and  under  the  care  of  the  widowed 
mother.  The  following  individuals  and  organiza- 
tions thus  adopted  French  children: 

Mrs.   H.   M.  Scarborough. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  O.  W.  Walker. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  C.  Dove. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  R.  Dove. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  S.  Yost. 
Christian  Science  Society. 
Geo.  B.  Roberts. 
Noble  C.  Leathers. 
Miss  Bessie  Wilson. 
Anna  A.  Dole,  Findlay. 
Unitarian  Sunday  School  and  Alliance. 
St.   Paul's  Lutheran  Sunday  School. 
First  Presbyterian  Sunday  School. 
Mizpah  Class,  First  Methodist  Sunday  School. 
Frances   E.  Willard   Class,   First  Methodist  Sun- 
day School. 

Clarksburg  Branch,  American  Red  Cross. 

Miss  Lizzie  Dazey,  Findlay. 

J.  E.  Dazey,  Findlay. 

E.  M.  Vennum,  Findlay. 

Mrs.  M.  Maurer,  Dollville  Red  Cross. 

First  Methodist  Sunday  School,  Shelbyville. 

Benjamin  Kerr,  Jr. 

King  Lantz. 

Robert  Richardson. 

Miss  Ida  Diddea. 

William   Middlesworth,  Jr. 

Dr.  J.  C.  Westervelt. 

Sam  L.  Tilley,  county  treasurer. 

Vine  Street  School. 

Main  Street  School  (two  children  adopted). 

Church  of  the   Immaculate  Conception. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  P.  Dearing. 

Mrs.  Geo.  D.  Chaffee. 

Baptist  Sunday  School,  Moweaqua. 

In  addition  to  the  adoption  of  these  children  and 
the  making  of  the  garments  already  mentioned,  a 
special  drive  was  conducted  on  Dec.  7,  1918,  Mrs. 
Birkett  and  the  Misses  Compton  and  Ragan  taking 
charge  in  their  respective  towns.  A  total  of  $767.92 
was  raised— $586.42  in  Shelbyville,  $109.50  in  Findlay 
and  $72.00  in  Clarksburg. 

Shelby  County  thus  assisted  materially  in  swell- 
ing the  totals  of  the  State,  which_  raised  $788,130.68 
for  relief  and  sent  to  Europe  705,140  hospital  sup- 
plies, 182,035  garments,  27,188  kits,  and  adopted  8.844 
fatherless  children. 

FOOD  PRODUCTION 

Under  the  department  of  Food  Production,  of 
which  Mrs.  F.  C.  Bolinger  was  the  county  chairman, 
many  hundreds  of  "war  gardens"  were  established. 
The  need  for  increased  production  of  vegetables,  as 
well  as  of  grains  and  other  food  products,  was  sys- 
tematically and  convincingly  laid  upon  the  minds  and 
hearts  of  the  people,  and  there  was  a  magnificent 
response  in  Shelby  as  well  as  in  other  sections  of  the 
country.  Plots  of  ground  that  hitherto  had  been  but 
waste  tracts,  were  tilled,  and  while  the  increased 


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production  was  the  material  and  obvious  result,  there 
was  a  very  real  benefit  also  in  the  lessons  of  industry 
and  the  physical  effect  on  the  workers. 

FOOD  CONSERVATION 

Another  important  work  accomplished  under  the 
general  direction  of  this  committee  was  that  of  food 
conservation,  of  which  department  Mrs.  F.  O.  Bisdee 
was  the  head.  Notable  among  the  activities  of  this 
department  was  the  Food  Show  conducted  at  the 
Sparks  Gymnasium  in  the  county  seat,  extended 
mention  of  which  is  made  elsewhere  in  this  history, 
the  effects  of  which  were  far-reaching  and  still  are  in 
evidence  in  practical  economies  in  many  homes  in 
the  county. 

The  conservation  doctrine  also  was  taught  and  its 
lessons  clinched  through  the  Hoover  Food  Card 
pledges  that  were  signed  by  thousands,  who  were 
thus  definitely  committed  to  retrenchment  in  the  use 
of  food  and  foodstuffs. 

THE  REGISTRATION  OF  WOMEN 

Early  in  1917  the  United  States  government  re- 
quired of  all  Shelby  County  men  of  a  certain  age 
that  they  register  for  public  service.  Again,  the 
question  of  food  conservation  coming  up  the  men 
and  women,  regardless  of  age,  were  asked  to  con- 
serve the  food  supply  to  the  best  of  their  ability. 
The  next  request,  in  the  week  of  Xov.  5,  1917,  was 
for  the  women  of  the  county  to  register. 

When  the  country  called  for  a  great  supply  of  men 
and  they  left  for  training  camp  and  trenches,  it  meant 
for  every  man  taken  for  war  service  a  woman 
had  to  be  found  to  take  up  the  work  he  laid  down 
when  he  went  to  fight  for  his  country,  or  that  of  an- 
other man  transferred  from  his  accustomed  occupa- 
tion to  fill  the  vacant  place.  Therefore  the  registra- 
tion of  Shelby  County's  women  was  directed,  and  it 
was  pointed  out  that  while  by  registering  the  women 
did  not  obligate  themselves  to  go  wherever  ordered, 
the  registration  was  necessary  in  order  that  it  might 
be  known  how  many  women  could  be  depended  upon 
to  perform  certain  work  from  time  to  time. 

Chairman  Hopkins  and  her  co-workers  organized 
thoroughly  for  the  registration,  and  the  following 
chairmen  were  appointed  throughout  the  county 
and  thoroughly  instructed  in  their  duties,  which  were 
by  no  means  a  sinecure: 

Mrs.   Ella   Price,   Oconee. 
Mrs.  C.    W.    Kessler,    Herrick. 
Mrs.  Harvey   H.   Runkel,  Tower  Hill. 
Mrs.  Ralph    Ayars,    Moweaqua. 
Mrs.  O.   A.   Jewett,    Dry    Point. 


Mrs.  Joe   White,   Rose. 
Mrs.  Be 


Bess   Meyers,   Ridge. 
Mrs.  J.  K.   Hoagland,  Holland. 
Mrs.  Homer   Ilott,   Okaw. 
Mrs.  William    Denn,    Prairie. 
Mrs.  H.  C.  Clausen,  Fancher. 
Miss  Mae    Gleason,    Richland. 
Mrs.  Hugh   S.    Lilly,    Windsor. 
Mrs.   Eva  Storm,   Strasburg. 
Mrs.  John  A.   Berchtold,  Sigel. 
Miss  Gertrude  McClory,  Big  Spring. 
Mrs.  H.  C.  May,  Ash  Grove. 

Women  of  other  townships  where  there  were  no 
towns  and  therefore  no  chairmen  were  named,  reg- 
istered where  it  was  most  convenient  for  them.  The 
registration  primarily  was  for  women  who  could 
afford  to  give  their  services  to  the  causes;  but  it  also 
was  for  women  who  required  their  expenses,  and  also 
for  the  woman  who  must  be  paid  for  her  time  and 
labor. 

The  response  far  exceeded  the  expectation  of 
those  in  charge  of  the  work.  The  many  registrars 
who  volunteered  for  this  serevice  were  swamped, 


but  bravely  stuck  to  the  work  day  after  day  until  the 
registration  period  ended  and  it  was  found  that 
2,595  women  of  the  county  had  "enlisted"  for  service 
of  whatever  sort  was  required  of  them.  • 

Miss  Mamie  Laue,  Shumway,  a  college  student  in 
Shelbyville,  was  the  first  woman  to  register  in  the 
county  seat.  Those  who  registered  as  housekeepers 
far  exceeded  those  who  registered  under  any  other 
one  classification.  However,  most  of  these  also  sig- 
nified their  willingness  to  do  other  things  besides 
housework,  to  help  win  the  war.  Poultry  raisers, 
gardeners,  stenographers  were  among  those  who  of- 
fered their  services  to  the  government,  and  the  list 
also  contained  names  of  those  who  signed  up  as 
motor  car  drivers.  In  many  instances  the  registra- 
tions were  pathetic,  in  that  women  who  were  bur- 
dened with  heavy  tasks  in  the  rearing  of  children 
and  the  keeping  of  the  home,  offered  some  service 
to  their  country. 

The  registration  books  were  reopened  April  20, 
1918,  when  a  great  number  of  additional  women  of- 
fered their  services  in  war  work  of  various  kinds. 

VOLUNTEER  CLERICAL  WORK 

Another  activity  under  the  Woman's  Committee, 
C.  N.  D.,  was  the  volunteer  clerical  work  done  by 
the  women  registrants  in  connection  with  the  admin- 
istration of  the  Local  Exemption  Board.  From  time 
to  time  women  who  had  registered  for  clerical  serv- 
ice were  called  on  to  assist  the  local  board  in  filling 
out  records  of  the  selective  service  men,  and  in  the 
aggregate  gave  many  days'  time  to  this  work. 

Shelby  County  women  have  the  grateful  con- 
sciousness of  having  been  aligned  with  an  organ- 
ization that  was  100  per  cent,  effective,  as  the  Wom- 
an's Committee  of  the  Council  of  National  Defense, 
of  which  Dr.  Anna  Howard  Shaw  was  National  Presi- 
dent and  Mrs.  Joseph  T.  Bowen,  Illinois  State  Presi- 
dent, is  conceded  to  have  been  the  most  complete 
organization  of  women  ever  existent  in  state  or  na- 
tion, accomplishing  more  and  better  things  in  line 
with  its  purpose  than  any  other  body. 

Furthermore,  the  Illinois  organization,  which  was 
perfected  first,  was  recognized  as  the  most  complete 
and  was  taken  as  the  pattern  for  those  of  other 
states. 

TOOK  SPECIAL  TRAINING  COURSE 

In  July  and  August.  1918,  Miss  Hopkins,  chairman 
of  the  Woman's  Committee,  C.  N.  D.,  took  a  six- 
weeks'  course  of  training  in  the  School  for  National 
Service,  at  Chautauqua,  N.  Y.,  where  she  and  others 
were  trained,  under  strict  military  discipline,  for 
duties  that  come  through  war  and  other  national  dis- 
asters. When  the  course  was  half  completed,  Miss 
Hopkins  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  lieutenant  and 
placed  on  the  staff  as  registrar.  Perhaps  her  best 
work  was  done  as  a  speaker  in  the  Liberty  Loan  and 
Red  Cross  campaigns,  in  which  she  served  efficiently 
and  at  many  points. 


Youngest  Red  Cross  Member 

The  distinction  of  being  the  youngest  Red  Cross 
member  in  Shelby  County  during  the  war,  lay  with 
little  Miss  Joy  Carnes,  daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Wallace  C.  Carnes  of  Shelbyville.  Born  late  Satur- 
day night,  Oct.  19,  1918,  she  was  enrolled  early  Mon- 
day morning  as  a  member  of  the  Shelby  County 
Chapter,  American  Red  Cross,  while  little  more  than 
thirty  hours  old.  Thus  the  Carnes  home  was  kept 
"100  pet.  R.  C." 


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Shelby   County  War  Executive   Committee 


One  of  the  active,  effective  bodies  that  constituted 
the  civilian  wartime  machinery  of  Shelby  County 
was  the  War  Executive  Committee,  composed  of 
heads  of  and  receiving  reports  from  all  war  and  relief 
organizations  of  the  county. 

The  War  Executive  Committee  was  formed  at  a 
meeting  held  at  the  court  house  in  Shelbyville  on 
Saturday,  May  4,  1918.  Mr.  J.  W.  Yantis  and  Miss 
Georgie  T.  Hopkins  were  made  temporary  chairman 
and  secretary,  respectively,  and  permanent  organiza- 
tion was  effected  by  the  election  of  the  following: 

Chairman — J.    W.    Yantis. 

Secretary — John   J.    Ward. 

Publicity  Chairman — Dr.  G.   Henri  Bogart. 

Chairman    Finance   Committee — Dr.   J.   H.    Eddy. 

Chairman   Tuberculosis    War    Problem — Dr.    H.    E.    Monroe. 

At  this  time  it  was  officially  decided  that  the 
chairman  and  secretary  should  constitute  the  nucleus 
for  the  Finance  Committee,  and  that  the  organiza- 
tion might  always  be  fully  effective,  the  chairman 
was  directed  to  make  a  new  appointment  to  succeed 
any  member  of  the  committee  who  at  any  time  be- 
came inactive,  by  failing  to  attend  to  the  duties  of  his 
position. 

When  the  War  Executive  Committee  attained  its 
completeness,  it  was  constituted  as  follows: 

J.  W.  Yantis,  Chairman  County  Executive  Committee  and 
County  Chairman  State  Council  of  Defense. 

John  J.   Ward,   Secretary  County   Executive  Committee. 

J.  C.  Westervelt,  Chapter  Chairman  American  Red  Cross 
and  County  Chairman  War  Savings  Stamps. 

John   C.   Quinn,   County   Chairman  Auxiliary   Committee. 

Dr.  J.  H.   Eddy,  County   Chairman   Finance  Committee. 

E.   G.   Munsell,  County   Chairman  Liberty  Loan   Committee. 

Dr.  G.  Henri  Bogart,  County  Fuel  Administrator  and  Chair- 
man Publicity  Committee. 

Jacob  A.  Lovins,  County  Chairman  Food,  Fuel  and  Con- 
servation Committee. 

A.  L.  Yantis,  County  Chairman  Legal  Advisory  Board, 
Soldiers  and  Families. 

C.  R.  Ellison,  State  Mine  Inspector. 

Miss  Georgie  T.  Hopkins,  Chairman  Woman's  County  Or- 
ganization. 

Rev.  X.  H.  Robertson,  County  Director  U.  S.  Boys  Work- 
ing Reserve. 

Dr.  H.  E.  Monroe,  County  Chairman  Tuberculosis  War 
Problem. 

W.   H.  Chew,  Chairman  County   Exemption   Board. 

T.  B.  Shoaff,  County  Chairman  Naval  Labor  Enrollment. 

Mrs.  Maude  Walker,  County  Chairman  Woman's  War  Sav- 
ings Committee. 

D.  Leslie  Davis,  County   Chairman   Four-Minute  Men. 


Mrs.  M.  Isenberg,  County  Chairman  Hospital  Supply  Com- 
mittee. 

Chas.  E.  Keller,  County  Secretary  State  Council  of  Defense. 
Mrs.    W.    C.    Kelley,    County    Secretary    Woman's    County 
Organization. 

V.  G.  Ward,  County  Chairman  Speakers  and  Public  Meet- 
ings. 

E.  M.  Ragan,  County  Chairman   Farm  Labor  Enrollment. 

The  first  and  third  Saturdays  of  each  month  were 
designated  as  meeting  dates,  and  on  these  days  the 
members  of  the  War  Executive  Committee  assem- 
bled to  hear  reports  and  transact  such  business  as 
was  necessary.  One  important  matter  proposed  was 
the  institution  of  a  War  Chest,  and  Messrs.  J.  C. 
Westervelt,  John  C.  Quinn,  Jacob  Lovins,  William  H. 
Chew,  A.  L.  Yantis  and  H.  E.  Monroe  were  ap- 
pointed as  additional  members  of  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee for  the  purpose  of  reporting  on  the  feasibility 
of  the  War  Chest  plan.  At  a  subsequent  meeting 
they  presented  an  adverse  report,  and  the  project 
was  not  approved  nor  put  into  execution. 

At  the  request  of  the  Finance  Committee,  A.  L. 
Yantis  laid  before  the  county  board  of  supervisors  a 
plea  for  an  appropriation  of  money  with  which  to 
meet  the  legitimate  expenses  of  the  various  war  work 
departments,  and  he  reported  to  the  War  Executive 
Committee  that  the  board  had  appropriated  the  sum 
of  $1,000  for  the  use  of  the  committee  for  the  pur- 
pose stated. 

One  of  the  interesting  reports  at  the  June  15 
meeting  was  that  of  Dr.  J.  C.  Westervelt,  who  stated 
that  up  to  that  time  the  sales  of  War  Savings  Stamps 
in  Shelby  County  amounted  to  more  than  $130,000, 
with  a  special  drive  for  increased  sales  arranged  for 
June  28. 

Miss  Georgie  Hopkins  reported  at  that  time  that 
the  women  who  had  registered  were  now  available 
for  work  in  any  department  to  which  they  might  be 
assigned,  and  were  at  the  disposal  of  the  different 
committees. 

T.  B.  Shoaff,  chairman  of  the  Naval  Enrollment 
Committee,  reported  that  between  55  and  60  men 
had  responded  from  this  county  and  were  then  at 
work  in  the  shipbuilding  department. 

The  final  meeting  of  the  War  Executive  Commit- 
tee was  held  Aug.  17,  1918.  During  its  activity  it 
gave  careful  and  very  effective  attention  to  many  de- 
tails of  the  war  work  in  the  county,  that  had  a  de- 
cided effect  on  the  general  war  work  of  the  county. 


Armenian-Syrian  Relief 


Consistent  with  its  well-established  reputation 
for  turning  a  willing  ear  to  the  cry  of  the  distressed, 
Shelby  County  gave  with  comparative  generosity  to 
the  relief  of  the  starving,  shelterless,  suffering  peo- 
ples of  Armenia  and  Syria,  when  the  call  came  to 
them  in  February,  1919. 

The  organization  for  the  drive  consisted  of  the 
following: 

County   Chairman — Rev.    M.   G.   Coleman. 

Vice  Chairman — Rev.  J.   E.  Kieffer. 

Secretary — Rev.  J.   A.   Tracy. 

Chairman    Speakers'    Committee — Rev.    N.    H.    Robertson. 

Publicity   Chairman — Rev.  J.   M.   Heslin. 

Treasurer — W.    F.   Aichele. 


The  slogan  of  the  drive  was  "It  takes  but  $7.50 
to  save  a  life,"  and  Shelby  County  was  asked  to  raise 
$7,500  of  the  total  amount  required  to  secure  the 
relief  necessary.  Apportionment  was  made  on  the 
basis  of  the  United  War  Work  F'und,  and  the 
amount  asked  was  but  one-sixth  of  the  other  fund. 
A  mass  meeting  in  Shelbyville  was  addressed  by 
Professor  Albert  T.  Olmstead  of  Chicago,  and  other 
mass  meetings  were  held  throughout  the  county, 
with  local  speakers  carrying  the  message  of  the 
suffering  people  overseas  to  the  people. 

For  various  apparently  insurmountable  reasons, 
the  county's  quota  was  unobtainable,  the  total  re- 
ceipts being  only  $1.909.10. 

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War  Savings  Committee 


The  National  War  Savings  Committee  was  or- 
ganized as  a  war  expedient.  Its  purpose  was  two- 
fold— to  instil  in  the  American  people  the  habit  of 
thrift,  not  alone  for  the  duration  of  the  war,  but  per- 
manently, and  to  procure  funds  to  aid  in  the  suc- 
cessful prosecution  of  the  war. 

Martin  A.  Ryerson  of  Chicago  was  appointed 
chairman  of  the  Illinois  State  War  Savings  Com- 
mittee, and  Dr.  J.  C.  Westervelt  of  Shelbyville  was 
appointed  chairman  for  Shelby  County,  with  au- 
thority to  organize  the  district  and  appoint  aids. 
Townships  and  school  districts  were  organized, 
Chairman  Westervelt  making  the  following  appoint- 
ments of  township  chairmen: 

A.  C.  Werner,  Oconee. 

J.    D.    Rurris,    Herrick. 

C.  F.  Hunter,  Cold  Spring. 

C.  A.   Lowery,  Tower  Hill. 

Edw.  C.  Eberspacher,  Rural. 

Wm.   McGinley,   Flat   Branch. 

S.  S.  Clapper,  Moweaqua. 

A.  W.  Moore,  Dry   Point. 

J.   II.    Eddy,   Lakewood. 

W.   G.    Furr,   Rose. 

E.  D.  Kerr,  Ridge. 

Levi  Corley,  Pickaway. 

DeForest   Baird,   Penn. 

J.  K.   Hoagland,  Holland. 

J.  C.  Westervelt  and  W.  H.  Brown,  Shelbyville. 

O.    E.  Stumpf,  Okaw. 

Ralph  Schwartz,  Todd's  Point. 

A.  C.  Mautz,  Prairie. 


Henry   Faster,  Jr.,  Richland. 
E.  G.  Munsell,  Windsor. 
Ben  H.  Kunkler,  Sigel. 
John  C.  Quinn,  Big  Spring. 
Sylvester  Clawson,   Ash  Grove. 

These  men  were  well  chosen,  and  the  sales  of 
Thrift  Stamps  and  War  Savings  Stamps  went  for- 
ward satisfactorily.  Even  the  children  caught  the 
spirit  early,  and  played  no  inconsiderable  part  in 
swelling  the  totals.  Wanoma  Phelps,  the  little 
daughter  of  Leverett  Phelps,  a  clerk  in  the  Shelby- 
ville post  office,  was  the  first  purchaser  of  a  Thrift 
Stamp  through  that  office.  The  sales  campaign 
gathered  such  momentum  that  during  the  interim 
between  June  1,  1917,  and  Jan.  1,  1919,  more  than 
$500,000  was  secured  through  the  War  Savings  Com- 
mittees of  the  county,  while  the  sales  since  that  time 
have  been  considerable.  In  addition,  the  sales  of  the 
1918  series  of  Thrift  and  War  Savings  Stamps 
through  the  post  offices  of  the  county,  as  reported  by 
the  accounting  postmaster,  Frank  Stone  of  Shelby- 
ville, amounted  to  $430,000,  and  those  of  the  1919 
series  to  $28,298.66  on  Oct.  14.  Sales  through  the 
banks  of  the  county  and  other  agencies,  reports  of 
which  are  not  available,  greatly  increase  the  total 
of  returns  from  these  sources. 

Dr.  Westervelt  served  as  county  chairman  of  this 
organization  for  nearly  two  years,  resigning  the 
position  in  the  spring  of  1919.  The  appointment  then 
went  to  D.  Leslie  Davis,  but  upon  his  declination 
William  Harris,  superintendent  of  the  Shelbyville 
public  schools,  was  induced  to  take  the  county  chair- 
manship and  still  is  serving  in  that  capacity. 


County  Food  Administration 


In  the  year  1917  the  United  States  Food  Adminis- 
tration was  organized  with  precise  thoroughness. 
Herbert  Hoover,  who  had  done  such  splendid  relief 
work  in  Belgium,  was  United  States  Food  Adminis- 
trator, and  Harry  A.  Wheeler  was  appointed  Food 
Administrator  for  the  State  of  Illinois. 

Dr.  J.  C.  Westervelt  served  as  F"ood  Administra- 
tor for  Shelby  County,  and  organized  the  district, 
appointing  a  representative  in  each  township  of  the 
county.  These  appointees,  who  did  fine  service  until 
the  close  of  this  particular  work,  were: 

Tacob   Gaskill,   Oconee. 

"I.   R.   Holt,   Herrick. 

C.   F.  Hunter,  Cold   Spring. 

C.  A.    Lowery,  Tower  Hill. 

Edw.   C.    Eberspacher,   Rural. 

Wm.  McGinley,  Flat  Branch. 

S.  S.  Clapper,  Moweaqua. 

B.   A.   Prater,   Dry   Point. 

J.    II.   Eddy,   Lakewood. 

Wm.  G.   Furr,  Rose. 

Bryant  Corley,   Ridge. 

J.   E.   Dazey,   Pickaway,  Penn,  Okaw  and  Todd's  Point. 


J° 


James   X.  Wortman,  Holland. 

C.  Westervelt;  W.  H.  Brown,  assistant,  Shelbyville. 
A.    C.    Mautz,    Prairie. 
Edwin  H.   Faster,  Richland. 

E.  G.   Munsell,   Windsor. 
Ben  H.   Kunkler,  Sigel. 
John    C.    Quinn,   Big   Spring. 

F.  E.  Storm,  Ash  Grove. 

A  record  was  made  at  once  of  every  food  dis- 
penser, each  and  every  dealer  was  advised  of  the 
food  laws  and  regulations,  and  the  restrictions  on 
staples,  particularly  on  flour  and  sugar,  were  strictly 
enforced. 

Considering  the  fact  that  theretofore  their  tastes, 
appetites  and  inclinations  had  been  denied  only  by 
the  limitations  of  the  wherewithal  with  which  to  pur- 
chase, the  cheerfulness  with  which  the  people  of  the 
county,  in  common  with  the  whole  country,  adjusted 
themselves  to  the  new  order  of  things,  was  little 
short  of  marvelous.  The  restrictions,  required  by 
the  crying  needs  of  the  peoples  across  the  sea,  soon 
sat  easily  upon  the  patriotic  men  and  women;  though 


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for  the  sake  of  truth  it  must  be  admitted  that  most 
of  them  would  like  to  have  stricken  the  word  "sub- 
stitute" from  their  vocabulary. 

"Famines"  in  sugar  and  flour  were  of  frequent 
occurrence,  though  with  the  greatly  decreased  use  of 
these  staples  the  demand  was  greatly  less.  Dealers 
were  sorely  pressed  at  times  to  obtain  a  sufficiency 
of  substitutes,  and  their  mathematical  skill  was 
brought  into  play  to  apportion  their  sales  equitably 
under  the  rules  and  sell  any  wheat  flour  at  all.  Some 
dealers  in  flour  disposed  of  their  stocks  to  bakers, 
and  suspended  trade  in  that  commodity  until  the 
close  of  the  restricted  period. 

Here  and  there  appeared  a  "hoarder,"  but  his  dis- 
covery was  inevitable  and  patriotic  neighbors  made 


it  so  uncomfortable   for  him   that  a  second  or  con- 
tinued offense  was  unlikely. 

Notwithstanding  the  cheerfulness  of  their  sacri- 
fice, announcement  by  Food  Administrator  Wes- 
tervelt  on  Thursday,  Nov.  14,  1918,  that  no  more 
substitutes  need  be  used  for  wheat  flour,  brought 
delight  to  the  housewives,  and  immediately  it  was 
white  bread  for  all  except  those  who  through  ex- 
tended use  had  acquired  a  liking  for  the  corn  bread 
and  other  substitutes  that  for  months  had  been  a 
part  of  the  daily  diet. 

Dr.  Westervelt  served  as  County  Food  Admin- 
istrator from  October,  1917,  to  January  1,  1919.  On 
the  latter  date  the  organization  was  discontinued. 
While  the  war  was  a  frightful  thing,  it  taught  many 
an  American  that  less  expensive  tastes  are  as  well 
as  the  old  extravagances. 


Practical  Food  Demonstration 


Shelby  County  people  who  had  been  told  that  to 
save  an  ounce  of  this  or  that  a  day  will  accomplish 
such  and  such  in  a  year,  but  without  getting  the 
practical  application,  were  given  a  demonstration  on 
Friday  and  Saturday,  March  8  and  9,  1918,  that  failed 
not  of  its  purpose  to  teach  by  example  as  well  as  by 
precept  the  importance  of  food  conservation. 

The  demonstration  was  in  the  form  of  a  Food 
Show,  given  in  the  Sparks  gymnasium  under  the 
direction  of  the  Woman's  Committee  of  the  Council 
of  National  Defense,  which  was  accorded  the  fullest 
co-operation  of  the  Food  Administration,  the  Free 
Public  Library,  the  schools,  the  press  and  the  food 
dealers.  The  huge  gym  was  profusely  decorated 
with  banners,  bunting,  flags  and  food  posters,  and 
everywhere,  though  in  orderly  array,  were  displays 
of  various  foods  and  food  products,  arranged  at- 
tractively and  uniquely  with  a  view  to  giving  the 
beholder  a  graphic  object  lesson  as  to  what  and  how 
the  people  could  save,  in  order  to  patriotically  sup- 
port the  government  in  its  fight  for  democracy. 

The  exhibits  were  placed  under  six  general  classi- 
fications, namely:  Proteins,  Sugars,  Starches,  Fats, 
Fruits  and  Vegetables,  and  the  Library  section.  Each 
division  was  complete  in  itself,  with  exhibits  ar- 
ranged in  a  striking  manner.  One  or  two  examples 
will  suffice  to  illustrate  the  methods  used  to  carry 
the  desired  message  of  economy  and  saving  to  the 
beholder:  In  the  Protein  division  a  small  slice  of 
ham,  one  ounce  in  weight,  was  laid  beside  three  large 
hams,  with  a  poster  stating  that  if  each  person  in 
Shelbyville  would  save  an  ounce  of  meat  a  day,  it 
would  save  the  larger  quantity — 36  pounds — in  the 
same  length  of  time.  A  slice  of  bread  placed  beside 
the  picture  of  a  battleship  illustrated  the  fact  that 
the  saving  of  a  slice  of  bread  a  day  by  the  people  of 
the  country  would  build  a  battleship. 

In  the  Library  section  there  was  a  generous  dis- 
play of  posters  of  striking  design,  some  of  them  the 


work  of  pupils  of  the  local  schools;  a  plasticine  ex- 
hibit of  various  foods,  showing  their  relative  value 
in  eggs,  meats,  fruits,  vegetables,  sugars,  bread,  etc.; 
a  number  of  books  and  leaflets  on  gardening,  and  a 
miniature  truck  patch,  the  work  of  E.  M.  Harwood, 
illustrating  what  might  be  accomplished  by  intensive 
gardening. 

A  spectacular  feature  of  the  display,  carrying  with 
it  a  peculiar  appeal  to  Shelby  County  people  whose 
boys  were  at  Camp  Taylor  or  had  passed  through 
that  cantonment,  was  the  children's  section,  designed 
to  show  "How  Children  Can  Help."  Camp  Taylor, 
with  the  Shelby  County  soldiers  therein,  was  repro- 
duced as  the  central  figure  of  the  design  to  illustrate 
the  poster  declaration  that  the  saving  of  one  pound 
of  wheat,  two  ounces  of  fat,  seven  ounces  of  sugar 
and  seven  ounces  of  meat  for  one  day  by  Shelby 
county  people,  would  keep  the  Shelby  County  boys 
at  the  cantonment  in  sugar  and  fats  for  eleven 
months,  and  in  meat  and  flour  for  eight  months. 

Entertainment  features  included  singing  by  the 
Woman's  Chorus  at  each  session,  demonstrations 
by  the  Boy  Scouts,  Children's  Folk  Dances,  and  each 
afternoon  Miss  Katheryn  Patterson,  instructor  in 
Domestic  Science  at  the  Shelbyville  high  school, 
gave  a  cooking  demonstration.  At  noon  hour  a 
"war"  luncheon  was  served  by  the  Surgical  Dressing 
Class  of  the  Red  Cross,  and  was  generously  patron- 
ized. In  the  evening  a  clever  little  playlet,  embody- 
ing the  "Blue  Bird"  idea  and  worked  out  by  Miss 
Okla  Sturgis,  was  given  by  a  group  of  children. 

The  Food  Show,  carefully  planned  and  conducted, 
and  with  premiums  for  superior  products  the  ingre- 
dients of  which  conformed  to  war-time  restrictions, 
unquestionably  did  much  toward  instilling  the  spirit 
of  saving  into  the  minds  of  the  people,  and  had  a 
very  material  bearing  on  the  unanimity  with  which 
Shelby  County  people  conformed  to  the  govern- 
ment's food  regulations. 


He  Loved  His  Adopted  Country 


A  fine  example  of  a  man's  love  for  his  adopted 
country  and  the  spirit  that  prompted  the  real  patriot 
to  go  into  the  field  against  the  autocracy  of  the 
Central  Powers,  was  shown  by  Henry  Anderson  of 
Sigel,  who,  though  a  Dane  and  subject  to  the  gov- 
ernment of  that  country,  registered  June  5,  1917, 


waived    exemption    and    asked    for    early    induction. 
He  said: 

"I  came  to  America  poor.  I  came  here  to  make 
my  living.  All  I  have,  I  made  here.  This  country 
has  afforded  me  protection  and  a  living,  and  I  am 
ready  and  willing  to  bear  arms  in  its  behalf." 


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REV.  N.  H.  ROBERTSON 
Scout  Master 


C.  H.  BELTING 
County  Adviser 


J.   K.   HOAGLAND 

President  Farm  Bureau 


Farm  Labor  Enrollment 


With  the  urgent  cry  for  increased  production  of 
farm  crops  that  the  world  might  be  fed,  and  with 
the  ranks  of  farm  labor  decimated  by  the  transfer 
of  the  experienced  young  farmers  into  military  serv- 
ice, it  became  necessary  to  draw  upon  the  ranks  of 
men  in  other  lines  of  activity  for  assistance  in  tilling 
the  soil  and  harvesting  the  crops.  The  condition  be- 
came acute  in  the  summer  of  1918,  and  a  country- 
wide call  was  issued  for  the  enrollment  of  men  for 
farm  labor. 

Elza  M.  Ragan  was  appointed  County  Chairman 
of  the  Farm  Labor  Enrollment  in  Shelby  County, 
and  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  worked  in  co-opera- 
tion with  Farm  Adviser  C.  H.  Belting.  A  store-to- 


store  and  office-to-office  canvass  was  made,  not 
alone  in  the  county  seat  but  in  the  other  towns  of 
the  county  as  well,  and  a  magnificent  response  was 
obtained.  Not  a  man,  whatever  his  business  or  pro- 
fession, refused  to  enroll  for  farm  labor  when  needed. 
Merchants,  doctors,  lawyers,  ministers  and  members 
of  other  professions  instantly  signified  their  willing- 
ness to  "help  out"  in  agricultural  necessities,  and  did 
give  of  their  time  and  energies  when  requested  later 
to  do  so. 

The  demand  was  less  than  the  supply  of  volunteer 
labor,  however,  though  some  workers  were  furnished 
through  this  department.  Later,  the  work  was  han- 
dled directly  through  the  Farm  Bureau. 


Shelby  County  Farm  Bureau 


The  Shelby  County  Farm  Bureau  was  an  efficient 
aid  in  carrying  on  the  war  work  in  Shelby  County, 
particularly  along  agricultural  lines  with  the  co-ordi- 
nation of  crop  production  and  food  conservation. 
The  officers  of  the  bureau  were: 

Adviser — C.  H.   Belting,  Shelbyville. 
President — J.   K.   Hoagland,   Clarksburg. 
Vice   President — Theo.    Roessler,   Shelbyville. 
Secretary — C.  B.  Manning,  Shelbyville. 
Treasurer — S.    S.    Lorton,   Cowden. 


EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE 
E.  C.  Eberspacher,   Pana. 
J.  A.   Lovins,  Windsor. 
Edward    Christman,    Findlay. 
Theo.  Werth,  Strasburg. 
M.  W.  Stewart,  Moweaqua. 

Farm  Adviser  Belting  was  in  close  touch  with 
the  labor  needs  of  the  farmers,  and  was  enabled  to 
render  valuable  assistance  in  furnishing  the  labor  re- 
quired to  properly  handle  the  crops. 


The  Boy  Scouts  in  War  Work 


The  Boy  Scouts  of  Troop  No.  1,  Shelbyville,  did 
heroic  work  for  the  Xation  and  the  World  in  all  the 
Liberty  Loan  campaigns,  the  Red  Cross  drives,  the 
United  War  Work  activities,  and  even  sent  one  of 
its  members  to  France  for  active  work  on  the  firing 
line.  In  all  their  activities,  into  which  they  entered 
with  a  zeal  that  was  commendable,  they  were  di- 


rected by  their  Scoutmaster,  Rev.  N.  H.  Robertson, 
pastor  of  the  First  Christian  of  Shelbyville. 

The  Scouts  were  allowed  to  sell  bonds  only  in 
the  first  three  campaigns.  Every  Scout  who  sold  ten 
or  more  bonds  received  a  medal  from  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  Treasury  at  Washington,  and  a  bar  was 
given  on  the  same  basis  after  an  emblem  was  se- 
cured. 


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The  Scouts  distributed  a  great  amount  of  litera- 
ture in  the  five  Liberty  Loan  campaigns.  The  fol- 
lowing is  a  summary  of  the  work  done  both  in  this 
and  the  bond-selling  activities  of  the  Scouts: 

Pieces  of  iterature  distributed  in  the  First  Loan 2,000 

Pieces  of  iterature  distributed  in  the  Second   Loan 3,000 

Pieces  of  iterature  distributed  in  the  Third   Loan 4,200 

Pieces  of  iterature  distributed  in  the  Fourth  Loan 3,500 

Pieces  of  iterature  distributed  in   the  Victory    Loan 2,700 


Fourteen  receiving  medals: 


Total. 


No. 

Bonds  sold  in  First  Loan  by  three  Scouts...  47 
Bonds  sold  in  Second  Loan  by  twenty  Scouts.  373 
Bonds  sold  in  Third  Loan  by  twenty-one 

Scouts     252 

Totals     .  ..672 


..  15,400 

Amount 

$   18,200 

74,300 

49,550 

$142,050 


Twenty-nine  different  Scouts  had  part  in  this 
splendid  work.  They,  with  the  recognition  accorded 
them  by  the  Department  of  the  Treasury,  were  as 
follows: 


Three  receiving  a  medal  and  two  bars: 


Eugene   Carr 


Hamlin   Mertens 


Herman    Beetle 


Twelve  receiving  a  medal  and  one  bar: 


Harry    Carter 
Cilen   Crook 
Welsh    Hoover 
Carl  Tinsman 
Vaughn  Wallace 
Robert  Fritts 


Xoel    Bolinger 
Ferrall   Bryant 
Fred   Neher 
Virgil   Domas 
Robert   Richardson 
X.  II.  Robertson 


Russell  Harris 
Xorris  Newkirk 
Donald  Tucker 
Everett   Manning 
Walter  Smith 
Clarence  Cutler 
Frank  Burnett 


Robert  Dove 
Harold   Metzler 
Max  Hoagland 
Andrew   Beckett 
Murl  Niles 
Glen  Duddlesten 
Don  Lichtenwalter 


Certain  prizes  for  their  meritorious  work  were 
also  given  the  Scouts  by  the  Scout  committee, 
Messrs.  Geo.  C.  Bolinger,  W.  S.  Middlesworth  and 
C.  H.  Beetle.  Presentation  of  the  medals  and  the 
prizes  were  made  in  public,  patriotic  meetings,  in 
which  the  Scouts  gave  demonstrations  of  their  sig- 
naling and  other  work.  The  awards  by  the  govern- 
ment, made  necessarily  by  a  representative  of  the 
government,  were  presented  by  Postmaster  Frank 
Stone. 

Every  Scout  had  a  war  garden,  and  actively  as- 
sisted in  other  vital  war  work.  The  Troop  donated 
$25.00  to  the  Red  Cross,  and  twenty-two  Scouts  con- 
tributed $110.00  to  the  United  War  Work  campaign. 
They  gathered  nearly  1,000  books  and  magazines  for 
the  soldiers  and  sailors,  and  took  a  black  walnut 
census  of  their  territory. 

The  Shelbyville  Boy  Scout  who  served  in  France 
was  Headen  Broyles,  who  enlisted  in  Company  H, 
130th  U.  S.  Infantry,  and  participated  with  that  or- 
ganization in  the  splendid  fighting  that  characterized 
its  service  overseas. 


The  Fuel  Administration 


Dr.  G.  Henri  Bogart,  now  deceased,  was  ap- 
pointed County  Fuel  Administrator  and  was  charged 
with  the  official  handling  of  the  complicated  fuel  sit- 
uation in  Shelby  County,  until  changed  conditions 
brought  relief  from  coal  shortage  and  rendered  his 
further  service  unnecessary. 

In  common  with  the  country  at  large,  Shelby 
County  had  its  fuel  shortage,  but  with  careful  and  at 
times  drastic  direction  by  the  Fuel  Administration. 
the  situation,  though  at  times  critical,  did  not  be- 
come disastrous.  Occasionally  it  became  necessary 
to  confiscate  coal  in  transit  as  it  was  passing  through 
local  yards,  and  at  other  times  the  local  Fuel  Admin- 
istrator was  obliged  to  send  out  an  "S.  O.  S."  call, 
and  by  these  and  other  means  the  conditions  were 
met  with  not  too  great  distress. 

Then  came  the  famous  Garfield  "Heatless  Mon- 
days" order,  under  which  various  classes  of  industry 
and  commercial  enterprise  were  closed  on  the  first 
secular  day  of  the  week  for  a  certain  period  of  time. 
The  "heatless  Mondays"  were  preceded  by  a  four- 
days  period  of  heatlessness,  in  which  places  of  public 
meeting  and  many  business  houses  and  offices  were 
closed  as  a  means  of  conserving  fuel. 

Despite  the  fact  that  in  some  instances  business 
buildings  had  to  be  heated  because  on  upper  floors 
there  were  living  rooms,  the  business  men  with  patri- 
otic unanimity  subscribed  to  the  spirit  of  the  order, 
as  well  as  its  letter,  and  closed  their  doors  during 
the  prescribed  period. 

With  a  clearer  understanding  of  the  requirements 
under  Dr.  Garlield's  order,  by  the  second  "heatless 
Monday"  the  system  was  working  smoothly  and 
there  was  a  more  universal  conformity  with  the 
order  than  on  the  first  closed  day.  This  resulted 
in  some  inconvenience,  naturally,  but  as  a  rule  this 
was  accepted  cheerfully.  Drug  stores  were  open  for 
the  sale  of  drugs  and  the  compounding  of  prescrip- 


tions only,  but  their  cigar  counters  were  covered 
and  the  man  who  had  failed  to  lay  in  a  supply  of 
his  favorite  cigars  went  smokeless  until  Tuesday. 
Though  unaffected  by  the  order,  the  public  schools, 
entering  into  the  spirit  of  the  fuel-saving  plan,  were 
closed  on  Mondays. 

"Save  a  Shovel  of  Coal"  cards  were  issued  and 
distributed  widely,  and  had  a  very  salutary  effect  on 
the  extravagant  use  of  fuel.  The  conservation  meth- 
ods, while  criticized  by  some,  nevertheless  served 
their  purpose  in  early  movement  of  ships  that  had 
been  tied  up  in  harbors,  the  delivery  of  loaded  coal 
cars  stalled  along  tracks,  the  smashing  of  congestion 
at  terminals  and  ports,  the  early  resumption  of  nor- 
mal operations  in  industry  and  normal  deliveries 
of  fuel. 

DR.  G.  HEXRI  BOGART 

One  of  the  indefatigable  workers  during  the  war 
period  was  Dr.  G.  Henri  Bogart,  associate  editor  of 
the  Shelby  County  Leader,  and  Fuel  Administrator. 

Dr.  Bogart  was  born  October  26,  1857,  in  Cin- 
cinnati. Ohio,  and  on  Dec.  26,  1878,  married  Miss 
Josephine  Duncan.  He  led  a  busy  life,  and  was 
teacher,  doctor,  politician,  journalist  and  medical 
writer.  He  came  to  Shelbyville  in  July,  1915,  and 
from  that  time  until  his  death,  Saturday,  Nov.  23, 
1918,  was  associated  with  The  Leader.  Devoting  his 
attention  principally  to  the  Fuel  Administration,  un- 
der appointment  from  Washington,  he  also  gave  con- 
siderable time  to  other  "drives"  in  the  war  work  of 
the  county. 

His  death  was  due  to  pneumonia,  and  followed 
closely  that  of  a  beloved  daughter,  Sybil,  whom  he 
nursed  in  her  fatal  illness.  Mrs.  Bogart  and  three 
children  survive  him.  These  children  are  Guy  Bo- 
gart, a  journalist  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  Mrs.  Idyll 
Burgess  of  Lebanon,  Ind.,  and  Elbert  Bogart,  who 
served  through  the  war  as  an  ensign  in  the  navy. 


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SHELBYVILLE  FOUR-MINUTE  MEN 


W.  C.  HEADEN 
N.  H.  ROBERTSON 


J.  J.  BAKER 
W.  H.  CHEW 


A.  J.  STEIDLEY 
D.  LESLIE  DAVIS 


J.  W.  YANTIS 
F.  R.  DOVE 


O.  O.  BARKER 
J.  A.  TRACY 


4  -  M  -  M  -  4 


The  Four-Minute  Men,  a  nation-wide  organiza- 
tion of  volunteer  speakers,  was  organized  June  16, 
1917,  as  a  division  of  the  Committee  on  Public  In- 
formation, with  the  personal  approval  of  President 
Wilson,  who  asked  that  the  work  of  the  organization 
be  extended  as  rapidly  as  possible  throughout  the 
country,  that  its  purpose,  the  dissemination  of  au- 
thentic information  and  utterances  of  the  govern- 
ment, might  be  put  into  early  effect. 

Xot  until  January  of  1918,  however,  was  the  local 
organization  perfected.  Then  the  appointment  of  D. 
Leslie  Davis  as  chairman  of  the  Shelbyville  Four- 
Minute  Men  was  made  from  Washington  on  the 
recommendation  of  Mr.  C.  E.  Bolinger,  president  of 
the  Shelbyville  Commercial  Club,  with  the  concur- 
rence of  the  Illinois  state  chairman,  George  R.  Jones 
of  Chicago. 

The  chairman  immediately  enlisted  the  services  of 
nine  business  and  professional  men  of  recognized 
oratorical  ability,  as  spokesmen  of  the  United  States 
Government  in  this  community.  These  men  were: 

Attorney  T.  J.    Baker  Attorney  W.   C.   Headen 

Dr.  O.  O.  Barker  Rev.    X.    H.    Robertson 

Attorney   W.    II.    Chew  Tudge   A.  J.    Steidley 

Attorney  F.   R.   Dove  Rev.  J.  A.  Tracy 

Honorable  J.   W.    Yantis 

Confirmation  of  these  appointments  came  from 
National  Director  William  McCormick  Blair  and 
State  Director  George  R.  Jones.  Mr.  Frank  S.  Rus- 
sell, manager  of  the  Yale  Theater,  the  sole  public 
playhouse  in  Shelbyville,  cheerfully  granted  the  use 
of  the  stage  of  his  theater  as  the  rostrum  from  which 
the  Four-Minute  Men  could  address  the  public,  and 


the  first  speech  was  made  Jan.  31,  1918,  by  Dr.  Barker, 
who  from  that  time  on  shared  with  his  colleagues  of 
the  organization  the  very  distinguished  honor  of 
being  the  official  and  authoritative  spokesmen  of  the 
United  States  Government.  The  messages  they  car- 
ried to  the  people  of  Shelby  County  from  the  stage 
of  the  Yale  Theater  and  .other  rostrums  where  op- 
portunity presented  itself,  were  powerful,  enlighten- 
ing and  inspiring,  not  alone  because  of  their  authen- 
ticity, but  by  reason  of  the  eloquence  and  patriotic 
fervor  with  which  they  were  presented. 

It  is  a  certainty  that  no  other  one-theater  com- 
munity excelled  the  record  made  in  Shelbyville,  even 
though  the  Four-Minute  Men  did  not  get  into  action 
until  late  and  for  several  weeks  before  the  formal 
cessation  of  the  organization's  activities,  Dec.  24, 
1918,  the  theater  was  closed  because  of  quaran- 
tine. Also,  in  the  midst  of  his  very  faithful  service 
as  one  of  the  speakers,  Mr.  Headen  met  with  a  dis- 
tressing accident  that  compelled  his  retirement  from 
this  and  other  duties  until  near  the  close  of  the  cam- 
paign. 

The  organization  here  remained  throughout  just 
as  it  was  under  the  original  appointments.  No 
speaker  withdrew,  none  was  added.  Late  in  the 
summer,  however,  the  Committee  on  Public  Infor- 
mation provided  for  church  and  lodge  Four-Minute 
Men,  to  present  the  messages  in  their  respective 
churches  and  lodges.  From  that  time  on  the  official 
bulletins  were  furnished  to  these  men,  who  repre- 
sented various  parts  of  the  county. 

Another  late  feature  of  the  work  was  Four-Minute 
singing,  which  was  undertaken  in  Shelbyville  under 
the  capable  leadership  of  Prof.  R.  G.  Newell. 


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On  the  night  of  Wednesday,  Jan.  15,  1919,  the 
Four-Minute  Men  were  guests  of  the  chairman  at  a 
dinner  at  the  Xew  Neal  hotel.  The  only  absentee 
was  Dr.  Barker,  who  recently  had  been  bereaved. 
The  affair  was  very  informal,  but  at  the  conclusion 
of  the  dinner  the  chairman,  making  his  last  assign- 
ment of  speakers,  called  on  Mr.  Chew  for  an  im- 
promptu four-minute  speech  and  delegated  to  him 
authority  to  make  another  assignment  at  the  close 
of  his  own  remarks.  He  did  this,  and  each  in  turn 
called  on  another  until  the  eight  speakers  whose 
voices  had  been  heard  throughout  the  year  from  va- 
rious rostrums,  had  spoken. 

During  the  evening  the  chairman  gave  from  rec- 
ords kept  as  accurately  as  possible,  a  resume  of  the 
work  of  the  Four-Minute  Men.  It  was  as  follows: 

No.  Approx. 

Subject                                                      Speakers  Audience 

Shipbuilding     4  1,050 

Lincoln's  Gettysburg  Address   1  300 

Eyes  for  the   Xavy    2  615 

Dangers    to    Democracy     5  1,495 

Income    Tax    3  725 

Farm  and  Garden    1  300 

"Thank    You"     1  315 

Liberty   Loan    9  8,125 

'Red    Cross    War    Fund    5  1,795 

Danger   to   America    7  2,165 


W 


ar  savings 


625 


The    Meaning    of    America 6  1,765 

Mobilizing   American    Man    Power 2  625 

Where  Did  You  Get  Your  Facts? 2  525 

Register     10  2,500 

Fourth  Liberty  Loan    11  2,820 

United  War   Work   Campaign 7  12,355 

SUMMARY 

Subjects    discussed    18 

Number   of    speeches    124 

Approximate    audiences     37,775 

Speeches    by     Lodge    and     Church     Four-Minute 

Men      12 

Approximate    Xo.    their    audiences 1,500 

Grand   total   speeches    136 

Grand    total    audiences    39,275 

Upon  the  appointment  of  the  Four-Minute  Men, 
President  Wilson  gave  them  this  personal  greeting: 

"Upon  you  Four-Minute  Men  who  are  charged 
with  a  special  duty  and  enjoy  a  special  privilege  in 
the  command  of  your  audiences,  will  rest  in  a  con- 
siderable degree,  the  task  of  arousing  and  informing 
the  great  body  of  our  people. 

"My  best  wishes  and  continuing  interest  are  with 
you  in  your  work  as  part  of  the  reserve  officer  corps 
in  a  nation  thrice  armed  because  through  your  efforts 
it  knows  better  the  justice  of  its  cause  and  the  value 
of  what  it  defends." 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  Four-Minute  Men  activi- 
ties, State  Director  George  R.  Jones  wrote  the  chair- 
man of  the  local  organization: 

*  How  much  you  and  your  speakers  contrib- 
uted toward  winning  the  war  and  maintaining  the 
lighting  spirit  of  the  people  at  home,  history  alone 
can  tell. 

"It  remains  for  me  to  say  a  personal  word  in  ap- 
preciation of  the  loyalty  and  devotion  which  you 
have  shown  in  futherance  of  the  cause  which  we  all 
have  had  most  at  heart." 

Mothers'  Club 

Women  of  Shelby  County  who  bore  the  peculiarly 
tender  relation  of  "mother"  to  boys  in  training  camp 
and  overseas,  were  organized  into  a  "Mothers'  Club'" 
for  the  purpose  of  sharing  their  mutual  joys  and  sor- 
rows. The  organization  was  effected  Saturday,  June 
22,  1918,  at  a  meeting  in  the  First  Methodist  Church 
of  this  city,  when  a  large  number  of  women,  repre- 
senting practically  all  communities  of  the  county, 
assembled  there. 

Mrs.  W.  C.  Kelley,  the  mother  of  two  sons  in 
the  service,  was  elected  chairman  by  acclamation, 
and  Mrs.  H.  A.  Thorn  was  elected  secretary.  The 


women  were  addressed  by  Mrs.  Frederick  A.  Dow  of 
Chicago,  vice  chairman  of  the  Woman's  State  Coun- 
cil of  National  Defense,  who  spoke  entertainingly 
on  "Woman's  Part  in  the  War." 

Several  meetings  of  the  Mothers'  Club  were  held 
at  intervals,  when  matters  of  special  interest  to  the 
mothers  were  discussed  and  letters  from  the  "boys" 
were  read. 

Victory  Sing 

Shelbyville's  Victory  Sing,  in  which  the  people 
poured  out  their  thankfulness  for  the  termination  of 
the  war  in  song,  was  held  at  the  High  School  audi- 
torium Thanksgiving  Day  afternoon,  1918.  It  was 
held  under  the  auspices  of  the  Woman's  Committee 
of  the  Council  of  Xational  Defense,  and  was  directed 
by  Mrs.  Josephine  Grider,  with  Dr.  E.  M.  Hopkins 
co-operating  in  the  leadership.  The  exercises  began 
promptly  at  3  o'clock,  the  hour  at  which  countless 
thousands  of  other  voices  throughout  the  nation 
broke  forth  in  similar  praise.  As  might  be  supposed, 
"The  Star  Spangled  Banner"  had  the  place  of  honor 
at  the  top  of  the  list  of  songs  used.  A  prayer  by  the 
Rev.  J.  A.  Tracy  and  State's  Attorney  A.  L.  Yantis's 
reading  of  Mrs.  David  Allen  Campbell's  statement  as 
to  the  purpose  of  the  Victory  Sing  preceded  a  half 
hour  in  which  orchestra,  Liberty  Chorus  and  audi- 
ence united  in  singing  the  inspirational  patriotic 
songs  and  hymns. 


Binoculars  Were  in  Service 

Early  in  1918,  in  response  to  an  appeal  of  the 
Xavy  Department  for  binoculars  with  which  to  equip 
lookouts  on  transports  and  other  vessels,  G.  A.  Sex- 
ton, manager  of  the  Western  Union  office  at  Shelby- 
ville,  loaned  his  binoculars,  with  little  confidence  he 
would  ever  see  them  again.  He  was  agreeably  sur- 
prised, however,  about  a  year  later  to  receive  the 
glasses,  with  the  information  that  they  had  been  in 
use  from  the  first  of  May,  1918,  until  the  close  of 
hostilities.  The  binoculars  bore  a  metal  tag,  on 
which  were  the  words,  "Donated  to  U.  S.  Xavy  by 
G.  A.  Sexton,  Shelbyville,  111.,"  and  a  card  on  which 
was  the  following  inscription: 

"This  glass  was  used  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Roanoke 
from  May  1st,  1918,  to  cessation  of  hostilities,  on  a 
voyage  from  Xew  York  through  the  war  zone  to  the 
Xorth  Sea  and  through  12  mining  operations  in  the 
Xorth  Sea,  which  resulted  in  bottling  up  the  Ger- 
man fleet." 

Mr.  Sexton  keeps  the  binoculars  as  a  valued 
souvenir. 

Took  Keyboard  Artists 

Military  service  hit  the  newspaper  offices  of 
Shelby  County  hard.  Several  men  from  outlying  of- 
fices were  called  to  the  colors,  while  no  less  than  six 
Shelbyville  linotype  operators  entered  the  service. 
These  included  Rennie  L.  Frazier,  William  C.  Hollo- 
way  and  Whit  Noe  of  the  Union  office,  Chas.  L. 
Twiss  and  Ben  Parish  of  the  Democrat,  and  W.  E. 
Rominger,  formerly  of  the  Union,  but  at  the  time 
of  entering  the  service  printing  instructor  in  a  State 
school  at  Normal. 

The  exit  of  the  keyboard  artists  in  rapid  succes- 
sion left  the  publishers  with  troubles  of  their  own, 
and  at  different  times  while  the  conditions  lasted  it 
became  a  problem  as  to  how  to  keep  the  newspapers 
issuing  on  schedule.  A  kindly  Providence,  aided  and 
abetted  by  some  accommodating  linotype  operators 
who  "lent  a  hand"  when  the  situation  became  des- 
perate here  or  there,  tided  them  over  until  the  boys 
came  back. 

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CECIL  T.  DEMONBRUN 


C.  E.  BOLINGER 


CHAS.  H.  BEETLE 


The  Shelbyville   Commercial   Club 


In  no  other  year  of  the  life  of  the  Shelbyville 
Commercial  Club  were  the  members  of  that  organ- 
ization so  busy  with  matters  pertaining  to  the  public 
welfare,  as  in  1917  and  1918:  so  forgetful  of  self  and 
private  interests;  so  ready  to  assume  responsibilities 
that  led  them  into  service  for  others;  so  quick  to  re- 
spond to  the  unusual  demands  upon  purse  and  time 
and  physical  and  mental  vigor  and  energy;  so  ready 
to  uphold  the  traditions  of  the  nation's  past  and  as- 
sure it  a  still  more  glorious  future. 

With  America  in  the  war  and  hundreds  of  the 
boys  of  Shelbyville  and  Shelby  County  facing  the 
foe  and,  shoulder  to  shoulder  with  their  valiant  allies, 
ever  advancing  until  the  complete  rout  of  the  enemy, 
the  heart-  and  purse-strings  of  the  men  "over  here" 
were  stretched  and  their  sympathies  awakened  and 
patriotism  stirred  as  never  before.  Neither  individal 
member  nor  organization  as  a  whole  failed  to  re- 
spond to  every  demand,  and  in  most  instances 
splendidly. 

Twelve  of  the  members  of  the  Shelbyville  Com- 
mercial Club  were  in  the  active  military  service. 
These  were: 


W.   F.  Aichcle 
C.   II.  I-Iulick 
W.   L.   Kelley 
Ceo.    I!.    Roberts 
(/has.  W.  Stone 
F.    It.    Wemlling 


Murphy   A.  Herron 
K.  W.  Johnson 
H.    K.    Monroe 
W.    K.   Rominger 
Thco.  Thompson 
W.   L.  White 


While  these  men,  with  the  exception  of  Captain 
Wendling.  who  was  in  state  service  with  headquar- 
ters at  Springfield,  were  in  active  military  service, 
many  other  members  of  the  Commercial  Club  were 
in  the  service  of  their  country  just  as  truly,  though 
without  the  coveted  privilege  of  wearing  the  olive 
drab.  Three  members  for  a  year  and  a  half  consti- 
tuted the  Local  Exemption  Board,  charged  with  per- 
haps the  weightiest  responsibilities  of  any  civilians 
in  service;  ten  were  in  service  as  Four-Minute  Men, 
carrying  the  government's  official  messages  to  nearly 
50,000  people;  one  faithfully  discharged  the  duties  of 
County  Food  Administrator:  a  number  were  active 
in  the  work  of  the  Council  of  National  Defense,  and 
others  in  the  Neighborhoods  Committee;  its  presi- 
dent in  1918  was  chosen  to  lead  in  the  United  War 


Work  campaign,  and  these  and  others  were  among 
the  most  active  workers  in  the  various  drives. 

Some  of  the  Commercial  Club's  patriotic  activities 
under  the  presidency  of  C.  H.  Beetle  in  1917  were: 

Reception  and  breakfast  for  Company  H  upon  its 
return  from  border  duty. 

Sixty-mile  "joy-ride"  and  subsequent  banquet  for 
Company  H,  in  anticipation  of  its  departure  for  the 
training  camp  at  Houston,  Tex. 

Demonstration,  with  parade,  luncheon  and  other 
features  on  the  occasion  of  the  departure  of  the  first 
contingent  of  selective  service  men,  Sept.  5,  and 
others  on  later  dates. 

Parade,  music  and  addresses  on  Oct.  9,  when 
Company  H  left  for  Camp  Logan. 

Contributions  of  hundreds  of  dollars  to  finance 
these  demonstrations,  in  addition  to  raising,  in  co- 
operation with  press  and  citizens  in  general,  a  "Com- 
pany Fund",  of  more  than  $1,100  for  Company  H. 

Stood  sponsor  for  Memorial  Day  exercises  and 
participated  officially  in  the  May  Day  festival  of  the 
public  schools. 

In  1918,  under  the  presidency  of  C.  E.  Bolinger, 
without  entering  upon  a  system  of  elaborate  demon- 
strations, the  Commercial  Club  in  a  body  and  with  a 
band  escorted  seven  contingents  of  departing  selec- 
tive service  men  to  their  trains,  while  an  escort  with 
automobiles  was  furnished  for  a  number  of  small 
contingents.  Under  circumstances  that  made  it  pos- 
sible, two  contingents  were  entertained  at  theater 
parties  while  awaiting  the  departure  of  their  trains, 
another  at  a  public  reception  on  the  Elks'  Home 
lawn,  and  Companies  C  of  Sullivan  and  D  of  Paris 
were  given  a  public  reception  on  the  streets  as  they 
passed  through  this  city  on  their  way  to  embarka- 
tion port.  The  Commercial  Club  also  tendered  a 
reception  to  the  "Jackies"  when  they  visited  the  city 
to  play  basketball  with  a  local  team;  co-operated 
early  in  the  year  in  the  Food  Show  and  later  in  the 
Canning  Club  demonstrations  and  several  centen- 
nial celebrations.  It  also  made  possible  a  notable 
event  when  in  April,  in  conjunction  with  the  Daily 


Page   Fifty-Fin 


Union,  it  engaged  William  G.  Shepherd,  the  well- 
known  war  correspondent,  to  deliver  a  first-hand 
story  of  the  various  battle  fronts  to  an  audience  that 
numbered  a  thousand  people.  Again  in  May  the 
club  arranged  and  brought  to  a  successful  finish  the 
great  county  Red  Cross  pageant  and  demonstration, 
and  with  a  frequency  that  made  it  almost  continuous 
engaged  in  activities  that  contributed  to  the  welfare 
of  the  people  at  home  and  the  success  of  the  Xation's 
arms  abroad. 

In  1919,  under  the  presidency  of  C.  T.  DeMon- 
brun,  the  Commercial  Club  continued  its  patriotic 
work,  co-operating  in  all  movements  for  the  pleasure 
and  welfare  of  the  service  men  and  the  public  in 
general.  Early  in  the  year  the  club  advanced  the  ex- 
penses of  American  Legion  delegates  to  a  conven- 
tion in  St.  Louis,  and  later  sent  a  reception  commit- 
tee of  four  members,  which  was  accompanied  by  a 
number  of  other  citizens,  to  Chicago  to  welcome  H 
Company  when  it  arrived  there  en  route  to  Camp 
Grant  for  demobilization.  Following  the  arrival  of 
the  company  in  Shelbyville,  the  Commercial  Club 


tendered  this  organization  and  all  other  returned  sol- 
diers, sailors  and  marines,  a  reception  on  the  lawn 
of  the  Elks'  Home,  where  a  very  pleasing  program, 
including  the  beautiful  Flag  Day  service  of  the  Elks. 
was  given.  Refreshments  were  served,  and  the  rooms 
of  the  Home  were  thrown  open  for  dancing. 

In  the  fall  of  the  year  the  Commercial  Club  pro- 
vided a  fund  of  $500.00  to  provide  Roy  Vanderpool 
Post,  American  Legion,  with  headquarters  and  its 
maintenance  for  a  year,  and  on  the  15th  of  October 
gave  the  returned  soldiers  and  other  service  men  of 
the  entire  county  a  big  reception  and  celebration  in 
the  county  seat.  For  perhaps  the  last  time  the  fight- 
ing men  passed  in  review  before  their  own  people, 
when  they  formed  a  procession  and  marched  through 
the  business  district  as  a  feature  of  the  day's  exer- 
cises, while  fifteen  thousand  people  observed  them 
in  thankfulness  that  they  had  been  returned  to  their 
families  and  friends. 

In  many  other  ways  the  Commercial  Club  demon- 
strated its  100  per  cent,  patriotism,  and  its  abiding 
interest  in  the  service  men. 


The  Seventy-Eighth  Division 


From  the  "log"'  kept  by  Charles  Meitzner,  Jr.,  of 
Stewardson.  it  is  possible  to  give  a  bird's-eye  sketch 
of  the  movements  of  the  78th  Division,  which  em- 
braced a  number  of  Shelby  County  boys  and  had  a 
very  vital  part  in  breaking  the  power  of  the  Hun 
and  stripping  him  of  his  vaunted  military  glory. 

The  division  sailed  from  New  York  early  on  the 
morning  of  Monday,  May  27,  1918.  There  were  4,500 
men  aboard  Meitzner's  ship,  the  Cedric,  and  there 
were  twelve  transports,  with  a  convoy  of  seven  de- 
stroyers. After  the  destroyers  turned  back,  June  5, 
the  transports  were  chased  by  submarines,  but  by 
zigzagging  the  vessels  escaped  contact  with  torpe- 
does. The  landing  was  made  at  Liverpool  June  7, 
and  a  royal  welcome  awaited  the  Sammies.  Several 
days  were  spent  at  a  rest  camp  near  Southampton 
before  sailing  for  Havre  June  12.  For  some  time 
the  boys  were  in  Camp  De  Meucon,  then  moved 
toward  Vannes;  were  under  fire  at  Echelon,  and 
Sept.  12  went  over  the  top  and  took  the  German 
front  line.  By  9  a.  m.  1,000  prisoners  were  taken. 
Sept.  15  it  was  reported  15,000  prisoners  had  been 
taken,  and  the  78th  had  captured  4,500  of  them. 
They  were  in  hot  fighting  at  Monteville,  supported 
the  359th  and  360th  Infantry  and  345th  Machine  Gun 


Company  at  Death  Valley,  where  14  were  killed  and 
35  wounded;  were  relieved  by  the  5th  Division;  were 
in  action  at  Point  De  Musson:  relieved  and  went  to 
Troyon.  where  they  crossed  the  Meuse;  relieved  the 
27th:  left  Chatel  Oct.  15  and  started  through  the  Ar- 
gonne;  fought  their  way  through:  hard  fighting  con-' 
tinned  day  by  day;  hot  action  at  Bellejoyense  Ferine, 
which  they  took  and  where  they  went  over  and  shot 
the  Germans  in  their  trenches:  on  Nov.  1  the  fight- 
ing continued,  and  500  of  the  enemy  were  bagged  the 
first  hour;  ten  hours  of  gas  cleared  the  Argonne  and 
Grand  Pre  of  Huns;  were  shelled  at  Brieulles,  where 
several  men  and  horses  were  killed  and  wounded  and 
where  400  aeroplanes  were  in  action;  nine  hours  be- 
hind the  Germans  and  pushing  them  hard;  Xov.  6 
crossed  the  Meuse,  and  were  eating  Hun  food,  left 
behind  in  the  enemy's  precipitate  retreat;  moved 
from  Brieulles-Sur-Var  into  Lorraine,  and  were  in 
camp  beside  a  German  cemetery  Xov.  11.  Later  they 
moved  to  Verdun. 

From  Oct.  16  to  Xov.  11  the  78th  had  nine  Ger- 
man divisions  against  it,  and  made  a  name  for  itself 
that  was  not  surpassed  by  any  other  division.  On 
the  14th  of  May,  1919,  the  boys  of  this  division  again 
set  foot  on  American  soil. 


GKRMAX    PRISONERS    HELPED    WIX   THE    WAR 


— Courtesy  "Oi'Cr  Here." 

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FLAG  DAY  AT  TOWER  HILL 


Tower  Hill  in  Wartime 


(By   E.   S.   McLean) 


When  the  United  States  declared  war  against  the 
Central  Powers.  Tower  Hill  community  stepped  to 
the  front  by  sending  a  large  number  of  men  into  the 
service.  Conditions  soon  called  for  workers  at 
home.  The  Red  Cross  was  organized  and  mothers 
and  daughters  met  regularly  at  the  city  hall  with 
machines,  needles  and  thread,  and  yarn  and  goods 
were  made  up  for  the  necessary  comforts  for  the 
boys  in  camp.  Enthusiasm  grew  and  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  and  the  Salvation  Army  were  added  to  the 
"help  win  the  war"  societies.  The  Red  Cross  aux- 
iliary knit  99  sweaters,  101  pairs  of  socks,  43  wash 
cloths.  7  helmets.  26  pairs  of  wristlets,  21  scarves, 
7  eye  bandages — a  total  of  304  knitted  garments. 

They  made  garments  of  outing,  gingham,  etc.,  as 
follows:  Pajamas,  147  pairs;  chemise  9;  ladies' 
blouses.  62:  operating  shirts.  48:  bed  shirts,  54:  con- 
valescent robes,  65;  bed  socks,  82  pairs;  nighten- 
gales,  17:  trench  handkerchiefs,  48;  fracture  pillows, 
10;  serge  dresses,  5 — total  547.  These  were  reported 
by  Mrs.  Julia  Maze,  treasurer  of  hospital  supplies. 

The  sum  in  cash  collected  between  September, 
1917.  and  May,  1919,  is  as  follows: 

The  Red  Cross  received  $2,308.72  and  paid  out 
$1.077.72.  Seven  hundred  dollars  of  this  was  sub- 
scribed by  the  miners  to  a  volunteer  committee  of 
ladies,  namely:  Mrs.  Floyd  Read.  Mrs.  Frank  Her- 
ten,  and  Mrs.  Charles  Ellison,  who  braved  the  dan- 
ger of  going  down  in  the  coal  mine  800  feet  below 
the  surface  to  solicit  the  miners. 

The  Salvation  Army  raised  $375,  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
$346.50  and  the  United  Charities  $1,671. 

By  popular  subscription  a  large  iron  flag  post 
was  procured,  which  was  placed  in  the  central  part 
of  town  and  "Old  Glory,''  10  by  20  feet,  presented 
by  W.  M.  Thompson,  the  druggist,  was  kept  afloat 
to  the  breeze  daily  until  the  war  was  ended. 

The  post  office  disposed  of  8,869  war  stamps  and 
the  Tower  Hill  Bank  sold  $1,745  worth  of  liberty 
bonds. 

SERVICE  FLAGS 

The  service  flag  of  the  Masonic  lodge  of  Tower 
Hill  shows  fourteen  blue  and  two  gold  stars,  rep- 
resenting the  following: 


Fay  Corley 
Lester  Cannon 
Arthur   Corson 
Kdward    Schoch 
Lester    Meredith 

Pilge   Fifty-Sc-t'Cn 


Karl    Goatley 

(leorge    Moore 

Frank    Moore 

Or.    Franklin    A.    Martin 

I'r.    Walter   Howard 


Fi 


Evey 


Alle 

rt    Barth 
a   I'rownlee 
d    Read 
Orley    Hilsabeck 


The  hero  dead  of  Masonic  lodge  are  George  Ells- 
worth Moore,  killed  by  bursting  shell  Sept.  10.  1918, 
at  Hart  Court,  France,  and  Arthur  Corson,  who  died 
with  pneumonia  at  Polliac,  France,  Xov.  15,  1918. 

The   Odd   Fellows  lodge  had  two  stars. 

The  K.  of  P.  service  flag  had  seven  blue  and  two 
gold  stars,  for  the  following: 

Dr.   F.    A.    Martin        Roy    Ellison  I.evert  Waters 

Howard    Tester  Crley    Hilsabeck  L'lilTord   Rodgers 

Lloyd   Pollard  Alvie   White 

The  records  of  Jester  and  Rodgers,  who  died  of 
disease,  are  found  in  the  Gold  Star  section  of  this 
book. 

The  Tower  Hill  Miners'  Local  service  flag  had 
nineteen  blue  and  two  gold  stars,  for  the  following: 


Alma   White 
Earnest  Jones 
Roy   Guinnee 
lohn    T'ower 
Otis  Lockard 
Hrvan    Hechtel 
Rubv   Widdows 

.vndy    Sarco 
Thomas  S.  Jester 
Frmen   White 
Homer    Riley 
I  awrence    Smith 
HowaH    Tester 
Fred    Guyot 

Lloyd    Pollard 
Leveret   Waters 
Albert    Duchy 
Elmer   .Mien 
Lon    1'ramer 
Clifford   Rodgers 

The  following  are  named  on  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Sunday  School  service  flag: 


Windfield   Evey 

Illiss  Clausen 

Pr.    F.    A.    Martin 

Ruby    Widdows 

Fred   Evev 

Roy    Elison 

l.ee    Fleunter 

Howard   Jester 

Roy    Gearhart 

Alma   White 

Rav   Guinnee 

Ira   Nichols 

Albert    Rust 

Fre-1    Guyot 

Lester    Cannon 

Alvey   Riley 

Rob    Urownback 

Lloyd    Pollard 

Al    God  ma  ii 

Krmine    White 

Pan    Classen 

Claude    Woods 

Fred    McLean 

Fav    Corlev 

Frank    Moore 

Homer   Riley 

Klhert    Farl    Twiss 

Charley    Milles 

I'r.   John    Green 

Orlev    Hilsabeck 

Earl    Pitzer 

lohn    Tower 

Earl    Darst 

Levert    Waters 

Cecil    Hempbill 

Lloyd    Pitzer 

The  Presbyterian  service  flag  had  one  blue  star, 
for  Max  Telly. 

The  Christian  Church  and  Sunday  School  flag 
contained  eight  blue  stars  for  the  following: 

Sam   Patterson  Sydney    Morgan 

Lon    Hruner  William  Jones 

John    Wirey  Eueene    Rolley 

Walter   Rolley  Norma   Jones,    nurse   to    Siberia 

THE    RED   CROSS 

The  working  committees  of  the  Red  Cross  were: 

Buying  committee — Mrs.  Minnie  Eiler  and  Mrs. 
Joe  Cannon. 

Hospital  Supplies — Mrs.  J.  A.  Killam  and  Mrs. 
Lee  Patton. 

Knitting — Mrs.  R.   H.   Rullington. 

Cutting  Committee — Mrs.  Mary  Clegg,  Mrs.  E.  S. 
McLean,  John  Pitzer  and  Mrs.  H.  H.  Runkel. 


While  fathers,  mothers,  sisters  and  brothers  of 
the  soldier  boys  were  noticeable  by  the  non-appear- 
ance of  their  names  in  the  make-up  of  the  several 
organizations,  their  activities  were  none  the  less 


ardent,  for  they  hoped,  prayed  and  worked  for  vic- 
tory, and  as  a  whole  Tower  Hill  community  need 
have  no  regrets  for  the  part  it  took  in  an  endeavor 
to  make  the  world  safe  for  democracy. 


Strasburg's  Service  Record 

(By  Kathryn  M.  Richards) 


During  the  World  War  Straslnirg  did  its  part, 
and  did  it  well,  giving  of  her  time,  her  money  and 
the  best  of  her  boys. 

In  the  different  Liberty  Loan  drives  the  patriot- 
ism of  the  citizens  was  emphasized  by  the  fact 
that  the  community  went  "over  the  top"  in  the 
Third,  Fourth  and  Fifth  loans,  though  like  so  many 
other  towns  and  communities,  there  was  a  shortage 
of  her  quota  in  the  First  and  Second  loans,  before 
the  people  really  awoke  to  their  government's  ne- 
cessity. 

The  Red  Cross  worked  valiantly  to  send  in  the 
necessary  supplies,  and  besides  the  regular  work  the 
Branch  provided  each  boy  that  left  for  camp  with 
a  comfort  kit. 

Of  the  scores  of  boys  who  went  from  this  vil- 
lage, one  was  killed  in  action,  one  went  down  on 
the  ill-fated  Moldavia  in  the  English  Channel,  one 
died  on  the  sea  while  en  route  to  France,  and  one 
died  of  pneumonia  at  Camp  Taylor. 

The  first  victim  of  the  enemy  was  Henry  C. 
Lading,  only  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Lading. 
His  record  is  to  be  found  in  the  Gold  Star  section, 
as  are  those  of  Strasburg's  other  dead  heroes,  An- 
drew E.  Ruff,  Frederick  W.  Nippe  and  Henry  Fred 
W.  Pieper. 

While  they  will  always  be  missed  in  home, 
church  and  community  circles,  it  was  just  such  he- 
roes as  these  that  made  peace  possible.  And  as 
other  boys  returned  from  the  battle  fields  of  Eu- 
rope, heroes  were  found  among  them — some  of 
them  cited  for  heroic  service  and  others  having  been 
formally  commended  by  their  superior  officers.  Susa 
M.  Risser,  son  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  W.  F.  Risser,  was 
officially  cited  for  valiant  service. 

Elmer  P.  Richards,  a  former  Strasburg  boy,  was 
the  recipient  of  three  medals.  The  first  was  a  Dis- 
tinguished Service  Cross,  presented  by  the  general 


for  heroic  services  rendered  after  he  had  been 
wounded.  Later  he  was  awarded  two  F'rench  deco- 
rations, the  Meadille  Millitair  and  Croix  de  Guerre, 
with  Palm. 

Harley  Gill  was  wounded  slightly  and  in  the 
hospital  a  short  time,  and  Herman  Doehring  was 
gassed,  which  sent  him  to  the  hospital  for  several 
weeks. 

All  of  the  boys  who  entered  the  service  from 
this  town  have  returned  and  are  quietly  slipping 
into  the  old  grooves.  Truly  it  can  be  said  of  the 
boys  of  Strasburg  and  vicinity  that  they  were  all 
patriots — not  a  one  of  them  a  conscientious  objector, 
but  on  the  other  hand  among  them  were  many  who 
voluntarily  enlisted  for  early  service. 

ARMISTICE  DAY  AT  STRASBURG 
Strasburg  observed  Armistice  Day,  1919,  with  a 
big  celebration  under  the  auspices  of  the  Liberty 
Post,  American  Legion.  The  festivities  opened 
promptly  at  11  o'clock  with  the  ringing  of  all  the 
bells  and  blowing  of  all  the  whistles  in  town.  The 
Red  Cross  women  served  a  chicken  dinner  to  thirty- 
five  service  men  in  uniform. 

At  1  o'clock  the  service  men  formed  a  review 
parade  and  with  the  Strasburg  band  marched  through 
the  town.  Following  the  parade  Mayor  William  W. 
Engel  made  a  short  welcome  address  and  introduced 
F.  Roy  Dove  of  Shelbyville.  Mr.  Dove  was  elected 
as  one  of  the  delegates  to  the  constitutional  conven- 
tion on  Xov.  4  and  he  took  this  opportunity  to  thank 
the  voters  for  their  support,  as  well  as  to  pay  tribute 
to  the  soldiers  and  sailors. 

Pony  races,  a  basketball  game,  a  5  o'clock  supper 
by  the  Red  Cross  and  a  dance  at  night  in  the  fire  en- 
gine house  were  other  features  of  the  day's  celebra- 
tion. In  addition  to  these,  G.  W.  Gill  conducted  a 
shooting  match  in  A.  W.  Young's  pasture. 


Cowden  and  Vicinity 

(By  Mrs.  Nellie  L.  Jewett) 


Cowden  and  vicinity  were  not  behind  other  com- 
munities in  meeting  their  full  share  of  the  sacrifices 
due  to  the  world  war.  Men  in  large  numbers,  money 
in  great  amounts  and  ardent  service  by  Red  Cross 
and  other  organizations  demonstrated  clearly  the 
patriotism  of  our  people. 

Three  of  our  young  people  gave  their  lives  for 
the  cause  of  universal  liberty.  These  were: 

Will   Flinn,  killed  in   France, 

Lane  Tressler,  died  at  Fort  Logan  H.  Roots,  Ark., 

Geneva  Casstevens,  Red  Cross  nurse,  died  from 
disease  "over  there." 

As  marks  of  honor  for  the  boys  who  entered  the 
service,  service  flags  were  prepared  and  dedicated  by 
the  community  and  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
the  stars  on  which  stood  for  the  following  named 
persons: 

Miss  Eva  Casstevens  Roy   Carlisle  Ralph   Conrad 

Harlan  Askins  Don   Casstevens  Herman  Williams 

Henry  Banning  Dr.  T.   E.  Cherry  C'loyd  Wright 

Cecil  R.  Burrus  Floyd  Christy  I!.  McGee 


Ray  Willey 

Frank   Lawhorn 

Robin    Stamper 

Marvin  E.  Burrus 

Sylvester  McGee 

Roscoe  T.  Clark 

George  Rich 

Don  Mitchell 

Merritt  Xance 

Joe  Larton 

Arnold  Montooth 

Clyde   E.   Home 

Lloyd  McDennith 

Robert    E.   Xichols 

Ward   Phillips 

Miss   Mary    Buzzard 

Claude  Phipps 

Tony   G.    Ethridge 

Everett  Cress 

Ed  Reimann 

Marian   E.    McXear 

Fred  Curtiss 

Martin   Riggs 

Fay  R.    Ellington 

James   Davis 

Vivan   Roadarmel 

Ernest  Cosart 

Ray  Dush 

Leverett   Stamper 

Elza   Ginger 

Rollo  Flenniken 

Ravburn  Steagall 

Claude  Barr 

Ralph  Fowler 

Miles   E.  Taylor 

Oarl  Xance 

Hubert  Garrett 

Lane   Tressler 

Cecil   Wanus 

George   Heath 

Clark  Walters 

Wallace  Holm 

C.   K.   Henry 

Fowler  Horner 

Grant    Bechtel 

Ed  Horn 

Xoble  Moore 

Delmer  Tucker 

Oral    Horn 

C'arl  Moore 

Esco  Dill 

iames  Kroninger 
ohn   Kroninger 

Louis  Xichols 
Clarence  Spracklin 

Will   Flynn 
Ralph  McMahun 

)avid   Boyd 

Esco  Jones 

Velarous  Phipps 

Edgar   Frye 

The  community  flag  was  dedicated  in  a  service 
at  the  Christian  church,  and  was  placed  in  the  post 
office  lobby. 

Miss  Mary  Buzzard  was  a  Red  Cross  nurse  who 
served  at  a  base  hospital  near  Paris,  France. 

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WM.  Ross  BECK 


TONY  BECK 


Miss  ANNA  MAY  BECK 


Miss  FLOSSIE  A.  BECK 


The  Beck  Family 


The  Beck  family  of  Windsor  furnished  four  mem- 
bers to  the  service. 

AXXIE  MAY  BECK 

Shelby  County  was  represented  in  the  Yeomanette 
service  by  Miss  Annie  May  Beck,  daughter  of  W.  W. 
and  D.  A.  Beck  of  Gays,  111.,  who  enlisted  as  a  Yeo- 
manette (Landsman)  in  the  United  States  navy  at 
Washington,  D.  C.,  Oct.  8,  1918,  for  a  term  of  four 
years.  She  was  assigned  to  duty  in  the  Award  Sec- 
tion, Bureau  of  Supplies  and  Accounts,  Navy  De- 
partment, at  Washington.  She  had  passed  the  over- 
seas examination  and  was  available  for  service  in 
Europe,  but  the  armistice  was  signed  while  she  was 
awaiting  orders.  She  remained  in  the  service,  how- 
ever, and  at  Washington  has  charge  of  all  bids  for 
supplies  for  the  Xavy.  She  was  promoted  to  Third 
Class  Yeomanette  Feb.  1,  1919. 

She  had  two  brothers  in  the  service — William 
Ross  Beck,  who  died  from  wounds  received  in  ac- 
tion Oct.  9,  1918,  and  Tony  Beck,  who  also  saw  over- 
seas service,  returning  to  the  United  States  and 
receiving  his  discharge  July  24,  1919. 


Miss  Beck  is  a  charter  member  of  Betsy  Ross 
Post,  American  Legion,  Washington,  D.  C.,  the  first 
female  post  in  the  country. 

FLOSSIE  A.  BECK 

A  sister,  Miss  Flossie  A.  Beck,  also  is  in  the 
service  of  her  country,  but  in  a  civil  capacity.  She 
entered  the  Xavy  Department  in  Washington  March 
21.  1918,  as  clerk,  was  made  assistant  manager  on 
June  1,  1918,  and  later  manager  of  the  Emergency 
Purchase  Division  of  the  Navy,  supplying  all  war 
equipment  and  all  urgently  needed  material  for  the 
fleet,  navy  yards,  naval  training  camps  and  stations, 
naval  hospitals,  naval  air  stations  and  training  camps, 
aviation  fields,  proving  grounds,  marine  stations, 
submarine  bases,  ship  repair  bases,  radio  stations, 
etc.,  both  in  America  and  Europe. 

She  was  honorably  mentioned  for  meritorious 
service  by  Admiral  Samuel  McGowan,  Paymaster 
General  of  the  Xavy.  She  is  still  in  the  government 
service  in  Washington,  and  it  will  be  conceded  that 
Miss  Beck  has  been  performing  a  "man-size''  task. 

Tony  Beck's  war  record  is  shown  in  the  Service 
Record  section,  and  that  of  Wm.  R.  Beck  appears  in 
the  Gold  Star  section  of  this  history. 


Windsor  and  Vicinity 

(By  H.  S.   Lilly) 


To  write  a  history  of  the  war-time  activities  of 
Windsor  community  is  a  difficult  task,  because  Wind- 
sor community  embraces  parts  of  four  townships 
lying  in  Shelby  and  Moultrie  counties.  Thus  some 
of  the  activities  that  could  be  credited  justly  to  the 
community  have  been  just  as  fairly  credited  to  the 
township  of  Windsor,  Ash  Grove  or  Richland,  lying 
in  Shelby  County,  or  to  Whitley  township,  Moultrie 
County. 

However,  Windsor  community  responded  bravely 
to  every  call — whether  it  was  the  offering  of  her 
sons,  the  pouring  out  of  her  money  or  other  material 
resources  to  the  Red  Cross,  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  the 
allied  war  organizations,  or  the  loaning  of  her 
finances  to  the  government.  X'ot  in  one  instance  did 
she  falter. 

On  several  occasions  the  Shelby  County  men  who 
had  been  called  to  the  colors  passed  through  Wind- 


sor on  their  way  to  camp,  being  joined  here  by  the 
selects  from  Moultrie  County.  On  every  one  of 
these  occasions  the  men  were  given  rousing  and 
patriotic  farewells  at  Windsor.  The  city  would  be 
decorated  and  the  Strasburg  band  would  be  procured 
to  play.  Once  a  special  trainload  of  soldiers  de- 
trained at  Windsor  as  they  were  on  their  way  from 
Camp  Funston,  Kansas,  to  the  Atlantic  seaboard.  The 
news  that  the  men  would  detrain  at  Windsor  for 
exercise  reached  the  citizens  less  than  an  hour  be- 
fore their  arrival,  but  Windsor  was  ready  for  them 
with  wide-open  arms.  Fruit,  lemonade,  sandwiches, 
coffee,  cakes  and  "smokes"  were  served  in  abundance. 
Public  meetings  were  held  only  occasionally.  One 
of  these  was  held  on  the  night  before  the  Third  Lib- 
erty Loan  was  launched.  Enthusiasm  ran  so  high 
at  this  meeting  that  the  township's  quota  of  $78.000 
was  subscribed  at  once. 


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For  thirty-five  years  Windsor  has  held  a  harvest 
picnic  and  homecoming  on  the  last  Thursday  in  Au- 
gust. With  the  war  touching  so  many  homes  the 
1918  picnic  took  on  a  different  phase,  and  a  com- 
munity service  flag,  bearing  at  that  time  154  stars 
(several  have  been  added  since)  was  dedicated  with 
appropriate  patriotic  services,  thousands  of  people 
being  present. 

The  Methodist  church's  service  flag  bears  thirty- 
one  stars,  three  of  which  are  of  gold.  They  are  for 
Earl  Garrett,  killed  in  action  in  France,  May  29,  1918; 
Charles  Cox,  died  of  disease  in  France  in  October, 
1918,  and  Vern  Edwards,  died  of  disease  while  in 
training  at  Pepria  in  October,  1918. 

The  Christian  church  also  has  thirty-one  stars  on 
its  service  flag,  the  Masonic  lodge  ten,  the  Red  Men's 
lodge  eight  and  the  Odd  Fellows'  flag  three  stars. 

THE  WOMEX 

The  noble  women  of  Windsor  community  met  all 
demands  made  upon  them,  whether  by  the  Red  Cross 
or  other  interests  connected  with  the  winning  of  the 
war.  There  was  a  local  chapter  of  the  Woman's 
Council  of  National  Defense,  which  did  much  ex- 
cellent work. 

But  in  the  Red  Cross  work  they  were  extremely 
active,  and  their  activities  have  been  carried  on  to 
the  present  day,  for  they  have  contributed  much  in 
the  way  of  food  and  dainties  to  the  canteen  service 
maintained  at  the  railroad  stations  in  Mattoon. 

OTHER  MEN  WHO  SACRIFICED  ALL 

Besides  the  three  young  men  whose  names  ap- 
pear above  in  connection  with  the  gold  stars,  the  fol- 
lowing from  this  community  also  laid  down  their 
lives  on  the  altar  of  their  country: 

Bert  P.  Walker;  Died  at  Camp  Taylor,  Oct.  7, 
1918. 

Clarence  I.  Sutton:  Died  in  France  of  wounds, 
Aug.  15,  1918. 

William  Ross  Beck:  Killed  in  action  in  France. 
Oct.  9,  1918. 

William  Lucas:  Killed  in  action  in  France,  Oct. 
1918. 

Ivan  Abbott:  Died  of  wounds. 

Harry  L.  Nichols:  Died  at  Camp  Taylor,  Oct.  19, 
1918. 

FIRST  TO  CELEBRATE  PEACE 
Windsor  has  the  distinction  of  being  the  first  city 
in  Central  Illinois  to  hold  a  formal,  dignified  celebra- 
tion of  the  victory  over  the  Huns.  At  1  o'clock  in 
the  afternoon  of  Monday,  Nov.  11,  1918,  the  celebra- 
tion of  the  signing  of  the  armistice  started,  and 
continued  for  two  hours.  The  event  had  been  care- 
fully planned,  and  while  in  Windsor  and  elsewhere 
there  was  a  general  outburst  of  joy  incapable  of  be- 
ing restrained,  the  formal  demonstration  here  was 
the  first. 

There  was  a  big  parade,  with  decorated  automo- 
biles, floats  and  other  features,  led  by  the  Windsor 
concert  band.  The  fugitive  kaiser  was  present  in 
effigy,  and  was  burned.  At  the  park  a  formal  pro- 
gram of  music,  speeches,  the  raising  of  "Old  Glory," 
prayers,  readings  and  the  raising  of  the  community 
service  flag,  was  given.  Business  was  suspended 
throughout  the  afternoon,  and  for  that  matter  nearly- 
all  day. 

Windsor  was  glad  that  the  war  had  ceased. 

WINDSOR  ENTERTAINS  SOLDIERS 

Twenty-six  soldiers,  sailors  and  marines  of  Wind- 
sor and  vicinity  were  feted  by  the  appreciative  and 
patriotic  people  of  that  city  when  they  were  given  a 
banquet  and  reception  in  the  social  rooms  of  the 
First  Methodist  church  there  in  March,  1919.  The 


National  colors  and  flowers  were  used  in  the  decora- 
tions of  the  rooms,  and  plates  were  laid  for  175  per- 
sons. The  signal  to  proceed  to  the  dining  rooms 
was  given  by  Bugler  Howard  Lemons,  who  sounded 
"Attention,"  then  "Recall,"  and  the  banqueters  were 
led  to  their  places  by  Lieutenant  11.  B.  Woods  and 
Sergeant  Wendell  B.  Wallace. 

The  feast,  at  which  Editor  Hugh  S.  Lilly  of  the 
Windsor  Gazette,  acted  as  toastmaster  and  which 
consisted  of  a  delicious  and  bounteous  menu,  was 
preceded  by  the  singing  of  "The  Star  Spangled  Ban- 
ner," an  address  of  welcome  by  E.  G.  Munsell,  presi- 
dent of  the  Business  Men's  Association,  a  song  by 
the  Windsor  Ladies'  Liberty  Quartet,  and  prayer  by 
Rev.  C.  W.  Gant.  The  courses  were  interspersed 
with  toasts  from  a  number  of  men.  Several  of  the 
returned  soldiers  spoke  briefly.  Rev.  W.  I.  Griffith 
paid  tribute  to  Windsor  and  vicinity's  ten  fallen 
heroes,  and  Clyde  L.  Bowen  of  the  Spanish-American 
war,  James  Ellis  of  the  Civil  war  and  W.  W.  Grif- 
fith of  the  Sons  of  Veterans  gave  short  talks  at  the 
banquet  table. 


THE  CECIL  BROTHERS 

No  Shelby  County  home  sacrificed  more  of  its 
members  to  the  active  military  service  than  that  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  E.  Cecil  of  Windsor,  from 
which  four  splendid  young  men  went  to  war.  These 
were  Eugene  Cecil,  a  locomotive  fireman:  Dr.  Dwight 
L.  Cecil,  a  veterinarian:  Irl  Hicks  Cecil,  also  a  loco- 
motive fireman,  and  William  C.  Cecil,  a  farmer.  All 
but  Dr.  Cecil  realized  their  ambition  to  get  into  the 
fighting  overseas,  but  the  one,  bowing  as  he  must  to 
military  orders,  performed  his  service  on  this  side  of 
the  waters.  Fortunately  none  of  the  boys  was  in- 
jured, though  one  of  them,  Irl,  was  in  the  hospital 
with  a  siege  of  pneumonia. 

Returning  fro'm  service,  three  of  the  boys  re- 
sumed their  pre-war  civilian  pursuits,  but  Eugene 
Cecil  was  instrumental  in  organizing  the  Shelby 
County  Aero  Service  company,  becoming  the  prin- 
cipal stockholder  and  pilot  in  the  enterprise,  which 
is  meeting  with  great  financial  success. 


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SHELBY  COUNTY'S  SERVICE  FLAG 


Jfllag 

(By   William    Herschell    in    Indianapolis    News) 

Dear  little  flag  in  the  window  there, 
Hung  with  a  tear  and  a  woman's  prayer 
Child  of  Old  Glory,  horn  with  a  star — 
Oh,  what  a  wonderful  flag  you  are! 

Blue  is  your  star  in  its  field  of  white, 
Dipped  in  the  red  that  was  born  of  fight; 
Born  of  the  blood  that  our  forbears  shed 
To  raise  your  mother,  The  Flag,  o'erhead. 

And  now  you've  come,  in  this  frenzied  day, 

To    speak    from    a   window — to    speak   and    say: 

"I  am  the  voice  of  a  soldier-son 

Gone  to  be  gone  till  the  victory's  won. 

"I  am  the  flag  of  The  Service,  sir 

The  flag  of  his  mother — I  speak  for  her 

Who  stands  by  my  window  and  waits  and  fears, 

But  hides  from  the  others  her  unwept  tears. 

'I  am  the  flag  of  the  wives  who  wait 

For  the  safe  return  of  a  martial  mate, 

A   mate  gone   forth   where  the  war  god  thrives 

To  save  from  sacrifice  other  men's  wives. 

"I  am  the  flag  of  the  sweethearts  true; 

The  often  unthought  of — the  sisters,  too. 

I  am  the  flag  of  a  mother's  son 

And  won't  come  down  till  the  victory's  won!" 

Dear  little  flag  in  the  window  there, 
Hung  with  a  tear  and  a  woman's  prayer; 
Child  of  Old  Glory,  born  with  a  star — 
Oh,  what  a  wonderful  flag  you  are! 


The  Service  Flag 


Xo  prettier  nor  more  significant  recognition  of 
the  men  who  gave  themselves  definitely  to  the  sal- 
vation of  the  world  from  oppressive  autocracy,  than 
the  Service  Flag  was  seen  during  the  war.  A  border 
of  red  and  a  center  of  white  on  which  rested  a  star 
of  blue,  constituted  the  flag  which  told  silently  that 
from  this  home  or  that  business  firm,  clerkship,  pro- 
fession, church,  fraternity,  club. or  other  organization 
had  gone  forth  a  patriot  to  lay  his  life  on  the  altar 
of  his  country,  that  democracy  might  live  in  all  its 
fullness  throughout  the  earth. 

The  little  flag  of  one  star  in  the  window  of  the 
humble  home  on  retired  street  or  in  rural  com- 
munity told  as  eloquently  of  sacrifice  on  the  part 
of  him  whom  it  represented  and  those  who  remained 
behind,  as  the  pretentious  field  of  white  dotted  thick- 
ly with  the  scores,  aye,  even  hundreds  of  stars  de- 
noting the  service  of  many  men  from  the  organiza- 
tion to  which  it  belonged.  The  individual  Service 
Flag  appeared  everywhere  throughout  the  county 
where  there  was  a  home  in  which  was  a  youth  of 
age  and  physical  fitness  qualifying  him  for  military 
service;  and  also  here  and  there  throughout  the 
county  were  organizations  of  one  character  or  an- 


other which  through  the  Service  Flag  proudly  did 
honor  to  its  members  who  represented  them  on  bat- 
tlefield or  in  camp. 

THE  COUNTY  SERVICE  FLAG 

The  largest  Service  Flag  displayed  locally  na- 
turally was  the  one  representing  the  service  boys 
of  the  entire  county  of  Shelby.  This  flag  was  pro- 
cured by  the  Shelbyville  Chautauqua  Association,  by 
which  it  was  first  displayed  at  the  auditorium  at 
I'orest  Park  during  the  Chautauqua  Assembly  of 
1918.  It  was  formally  dedicated  on  Friday,  August 
1,  and  at  that  time  bore  884  stars,  eight  of  which 
were  gold,  signifying  that  at  that  time  an  equal 
number  of  service  men  had  lost  their  lives.  Later 
the  number  of  both  blue  and  gold  stars  was  greatly 
augmented. 

As  an  orchestra  struck  the  first  strains  of  "The 
Star  Spangled  Banner,"  the  county  service  flag  was 
unfurled,  and  catching  the  spirit  of  the  occasion  the 
audience  took  up  the  national  air  and  made  a  rous- 
ing chorus.  Representing  the  county,  Honorable 
John  W.  Yantis  made  a  brief  but  eloquent  address, 
paying  beautiful  tribute  to  the  boys  represented  by 


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the  stars  in  the  Service  Flag  and  urging  that  one 
hundred  million  American  people  "do  their  utmost 
until  the  Stars  and  Stripes  are  floating  from  every 
castle  on  the  Rhine,  the  German  bands  are  playing 
'Yankee  Doodle'  in  ragtime,  and  the  liberty  of  the 
people  of  the  world  is  guaranteed."  This  Service 
Flag  still  is  in  the  custody  of  the  Shelbyville  Chau- 
tauqua  Association,  though  a  movement  has  been 
launched  to  have  it  taken  over  by  the  county  and 
hung  permanently  in  the  county  building. 

SPARKS  BUSINESS  COLLEGE  FLAG 

Sharing  in  the  service  by  which  the  County  Ser- 
vice Flag  was  dedicated  was  that  of  Sparks  Business 
College  and  Conservatory,  representing  the  former 
members  of  faculty  and  student  body  of  that  insti- 
tution who  were  then  in  the  service.  As  the  County 
Flag  was  unfurled,  the  S.  B.  C.  Service  Flag  was 
borne  into  the  auditorium  and  placed  conspicuously. 
It  was  bedecked  with  stars  representing  the  follow- 
ing named  men  then  in  the  service: 


the  head   of  the  column.     The   men   represented  by 
stars  on  the  Service  Flag  were: 


Aichele,    W.    F. 
. \rmer,   Virgil 
Austin,  Glen 
Baird,   Glenne 
Brown,    Forest 
Holing,    Clem 
Blackstone,    Gay 
Buckler,    Paul 
Bridges,   Howard 
Bodine,    George 
Carpenter,   Walter 
Corson,    Howard 
Cole,  W.  C. 
Courtright,    Vance 
Cihak,  Willis 
Court  right,    Harry 
Carter,  James 
Ditzler,    Decie 
Douthit,  Everett 
Dihel,  Sam 
Downs,  Harry 
Davis,  Sam 
Douthit,  Jasper  L. 
Duensing,  Roy 
Eiler,    Verner 
Ernst,    Frank 
Edwards,  J.   M. 
Fortner,   Frank 
Frazer,    Bernard 
Frazier,  Rennie 
Good,  John  L. 
Gleason,   Lawrence 
•  Gregory,  Thomas 
Gibbons,  Russell 
Hoehn,  John 
Herron,    Murphy   A. 
Hubner,   William 
Huffmaster,  Clifford 
Hurst,  Frank 
Hinton,  Miles 
Hendrix,    Arthur 
Jackson,   Louis  A. 
Kingston,   Ray 
Kull,   Roy 
Kull,   Carl 
Kull,  George 
Klauser,   Arthur 
Lipe,  Roscoe 
Meinzer,  Milo 
Moore,    Frank 


Miller,  J.  Glenn 
McColley,   William 
Moberley,  Grider 
Mix,   Sam 
Matliias,  Carl 
Montague,    Lawrence 
McCoy,  John  A. 
Xunn,  A.   C. 
Xeal,   Edgar 
Osborne,   Harry 
O'Brien,  Roy 
Powell,    Ray 
Powell,  Hubert 
Parker,    Burtos 
Pauschert,   Harry 
Parish,   Ben 
Pick,  Wm.  R. 
Pogue,  Delmar 
Roberts,    Michael 
Ruff,  Harmon  L. 
Kunkel,  Arthur 
Stallings,  Richard 
Stettebacher,    Glenn 
Smysor,    Lawrence 
Storm,    Clair 
Smith,    Claude 
Schmidt,   William 
Snook,   Ben 
Stretch,    Leonard 
Stretch,   George 
Sparks,  Charles 
Simms,  Glenn 
S  tire  wait,    Newman   C. 
Thompson,   Henry 
Triece,   Harry 
Tallman,    Leverett 
Thorn,  Steward 
Underwood,  Wilse 
Venters,  Roy 
Westervelt,   Floyd   C. 
Wakefield,  Everett 
Worley,    Edmund 
Wallace,   Ogden 
Williams,    George 
Worley,  Raymond 
Whitaker,  H.  Baird 
Waggoner,    William 
V oakum,    Herman 
Younger,  Russell 


BAPTIST  SERVICE  FLAG 

Among  the  early  dedications  of  Service  Flags 
was  that  of  the  Baptist  Church,  which  in  March, 
1918,  was  represented  by  sixteen  men  in  various 
branches  of  the  military  service.  The  dedication  of 
the  flag  was  a  feature  of  an  impressive  patriotic 
service  conducted  Sunday  evening,  March  10,  under 
the  direction  of  the  pastor,  the  Rev.  C.  H.  Shepherd. 
Th.D.  The  service  opened  with  the  Processional, 
the  choir  singing  "America,  the  Beautiful,"  and 
thirty-five  children  carrying  the  American  flag,  while 
"Old  Glory"  and  the  Service  Flag  were  carried  at 


Auld,   Frank   P. 
Burnett,  George 
Barton,    Ray 
Becker,   Milton  A. 
Dill,  Arch 
Hudson,  Andy 
Hudson,   Elmer 
Hudson,  Xelson 


Johnson,  James 
Johnson,    Robert 
Johnson,   Roy 
Shu  IT,   Earl 
Tull,  Tom 
Worley,  Raymond 
Wakefield,    Everett 
Wallace,   Ogden 


Eight  of  the  above-named  men  were  with  the 
130th  U.  S.  Inf.  At  that  time  Roy  Johnson  was 
with  the  U.  S.  Marines,  Wallace  with  the  American 
forces  in  China,  Becker  with  the  aviation  corps  and 
Dill  at  Camp  Taylor. 

CHRISTIAN  CHURCH  SERVICE  FLAG 

Twenty-five  stars  originally  bedecked  the  Ser- 
vice Flag  of  the  Shelbyville  Christian  Church  at  the 
time  of  its  dedication  and  the  unveiling  of  the  Honor 
Roll,  Sunday,  December  2,  1917.  Later  a  number  of 
other  stars  were  added,  representing  men  who  sub- 
sequently entered  their  country's  service.  This 
church  was  the  pioneer  among  local  institutions 
and  organizations  in  providing  a  Service  Flag  in 
honor  of  its  "boys"  in  the  military  and  naval  estab- 
lishment, and  not  only  adopted  the  Service  Flag  in 
their  honor,  but  grouped  individual  pictures  of  the 
men  in  a  large  frame. 

The  original  dedicatory  service  was  a  feature  of 
all-day  patriotic  exercises  on  December  2,  1917,  in 
which  Lieutenant  Lester  W.  Miner  spoke  interest- 
ingly of  the  work  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  the  pastor, 
Rev.  N.  H.  Robertson  delivered  a  patriotic  address 
and  there  were  appropriate  songs  and  readings. 

The  subsequent  stars  and  photographs  were  added 
in  a  special  patriotic  service  during  a  revival  meet- 
ing, Tuesday,  March  26,  1918.  The  presentation  of 
a  new  American  flag  and  its  unfurling,  addresses  by 
Attorney  W.  H.  Chew,  chairman  of  the  local  board, 
and  Judge  A.  J.  Steidley,  and  readings  and  solos, 
with  a  sermon  by  the  pastor,  were  striking  features 
of  this  meeting.  The  boys  represented  in  these  two 
lists  were,  namely: 


Bridges,   Howard 
Barker,   Dewey 
Broyles,  Headen 
Downs,  Harry 
DeWeese,  Pearlie 
Fought,    Ellsworth 
Freybarger,    Floyd 
Frazier,    Rennie 
Frazier,   Don 
Frazer,    Bernard 
Goodrich,   Lawrence 
Hudson,  Nelson 
Hayward,  Truman 
Jarnagin,  Robert 
Kelley,  Leo 
Klauser,  William 


Lee,  Alonzo 
Lovins,  Lawrence 
Miner,    Lester 
Miller,  J.    Glenn 
Miller,   George 
Miller,   Ray 
SHfer,   Tom 
Storm,   Clair 
Sprague,  Ralph 
Thompson,    Henry 
Thompson,    William 
Westenhaver,  Burley 
Westenhaver,    Marion 
Worley,  Edmpnd 
Yakey,   Murvin 


MASONIC  SERVICE  FLAG 

In  honor  of  twenty-two  men  who  had  followed 
the  colors,  representing  a  little  better  than  10  per 
cent,  of  its  membership,  Shelbyville  Lodge  No.  53, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  dedicated  a  Service  Flag  in  appro- 
priate exercises  at  the  First  Methodist  Church 
Wednesday  evening,  May  1.  1918.  During  the  course 
of  the  service  the  flag,  bearing  22  stars  on  a  field  of 
white  and  red,  was  unveiled  by  Worshipful  Master 
J.  J.  Baker,  who  served  as  chairman  of  the  meeting. 
Participating  in  the  exercises  were  the  Ladies'  Glee 
Club,  the  Rev.  J.  A.  Tracy,  I.  M.  Douthit,  F.  R. 
Dove,  who  read  the  honor  roll  and  the  service  record 
of  the  men,  and  the  Honorable  Wm.  B.  Wright, 
judge  of  the  Circuit  Court,  who  delivered  a  patriotic 
address. 


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The  men  represented  on  the  Service  Flag  were: 


Auld,    Frank    P. 
Brown,    O.    C. 
Courtright,   Vance 
Courtright,  Harry 
Davis,  Samuel  C. 
Eiler,  Verner 
Frazier,   Rennie   L. 
Frazier,   Don 
Fought,   Ellsworth 
Herron,   Murphy  A. 
Hite,    Birney   S. 


Jarnagin,  Robt.  L. 
Klauser,    William 
Mpberley,   Grider 
Miner,   Lester  W. 
Miller,  J.   Glenn 
Price,   John 
Rominger,   Will   E. 
Tallman,  Elmer 
Twiss,  Chas.  L. 
Westenhaver,  Hurley 
Wendling,   F.   B. 


SHELBY  COUNTY  TEACHERS'  SERVICE 
FLAG 

No  other  profession  in  Shelby  County  gave  more 
•generously  to  the  man-power  of  the  Nation  during 
the  war  than  that  of  the  public  school  teachers.  At 
the  November  meeting  of  the  teachers  of  Shelby 
County,  held  in  this  city  under  the  direction  of 
County  Superintendent  of  Schools  Lee  W.  Frazer, 
a  Service  Flag  bearing  forty  stars,  three  of  them 
gold,  was  dedicated  with  appropriate  exercises.  The 
three  gold  stars  were  in  honor  of  the  following 
named  men: 

Charles  E.  Reiss,  Shelbyville. 
George  E.  Moore,  Tower  Hill. 
Roy  Ireland,  Oconee. 

The  first  named  died  of  disease  at  Camp  Grant, 
Rock  Island,  111.,  and  the  other  two  were  killed  in 
action  in  France. 

The  blue  stars,  representing  former  teachers  in 
Shelby  County  schools  and  others  who  were  ac- 
tively engaged  in  their  school  work  here  when 
called  to  the  colors,  were  for  the  following  named 
men: 

Abney,  M.  D.,  Sullivan. 
Bodine,    George,    Detroit,    Mich. 
Brewbaker,  C.  E.,  Beecher  City. 
Curry,  D.  Bruce,  Westervelt. 
Cannon,  Lester  G.,  Tower  Hill. 
Davis,  Sam  C.,  Shelbyville. 
Dush,    Ray,    Cowden. 
Dobbs,  Thomas  W.,   Herrick. 
Evey,   Fred,   Tower  Hill. 
Frazer,  Bernard,  Shelbyville. 
Francisco,  Cecil,  Findlay. 
Fry,    Edgar,    Cowden. 
Goddard,  H.  A.,  Hammond. 
Gregory,   Blaine,   Moweaqua. 
Howe,   Clyde   E.,   Cowden. 
Hickman,   Nile  W.,   Clarksburg. 
Hoover,  W.  Senn,  Jacksonville. 
Jones,   Delbert  W.,   Strasburg. 
Kingston,   Ray,   Shelbyville. 
Lindley,  Clyde,  Windsor. 
McClory,   Guy,  Trowbridge. 
McClory,   Regis    E.,    Trowbridge. 
Moore,  W.   Frank,  Tower  Hill. 
McGilligan,  Stanley,  Shelbyville. 
Moon,   Burl,  Herrick. 
Mussett,  R.   S.,  Stewardson. 
Mills,   E.    E.,   Neoga. 
Reynolds,   Guy  V.,   Chicago. 
Rosenberg,  H.   E.,  Greencastle,  Ind. 
Storm,  Foster  B.,  Neoga. 
Strohl,  Roy,  Clarksburg. 
Throckmorton,   Chas.   O.,   Strasburg. 
Theobald,  Paul  K.,  Shelbyville. 
Venters,  Roy,  Shelbyville. 
Wright,  Cloyd,  Cowden. 
Young,  Gordon  V.,  Oconee. 
Yakey,  Murvin,   Shelbyville. 

PRESBYTERIAN  SERVICE  FLAG 

Among  the  early  dedications  of  Service  Flags 
was  that  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  which 
in  a  special  patriotic  service  on  March  24,  1918,  un- 
furled a  new  American  flag  and  displayed  a  Service 
Flag  bearing  the  stars  of  six  members  of  that 
church  then  in  the  service. 

Following  the  introductory  exercises,  the  Pro- 
cessional was  played  and  the  new  American  flag, 
procured  to  the  church  largely  through  the  efforts 


of  Mrs.  Frances  Welsh,  was  carried  into  the  audi- 
torium by  boys,  while  the  choir  sang  "Hail  to  the 
Flag."  Followed  the  flag's  presentation  to  the 
church,  its  dedication,  salute  by  the  congregation 
and  prayer.  A  further  program  of  music,  readings, 
an  address  by  Honorable  Geo.  D.  Chafee  and  the 
singing  of  "The  Star-Spangled  Banner,"  a  solo  by 
Mrs.  Geo.  D.  Chafee  and  chorus  by  the  audience, 
was  given. 

At  the  conclusion  of  these  exercises  the  Service 
Flag  was  displayed,  and  the  names  of  those  repre- 
sented by  the  stars  read.  These,  with  others  added 
at  a  later  date,  were: 

Brown,   Oliver  Clinton  Dearing,  Bradford  French 

Hite,  Birney  Sinclair  Nutt,    Harrold 

Thorn,   Steward   McLean  White,  Walter  Lawrence 

Monroe,    Henry   E.  Thompson,    Theo. 

Woodworth,  Ray  C.  Williams,   George   W. 

Williams,   Roy 

FIRST  METHODIST  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH 
SERVICE    FLAG 

In  patriotic  services  held  on  the  evening  of  Sun- 
day, July  7,  1918,  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  of  Shelbyville  dedicated  a  Service  Flag  and 
unveiled  an  Honor  Roll  bearing  stars  and  names,  re- 
spectively, of  twenty-six  members  of  the  church  and 
congregation  who  at  that  time  were  in  the  service. 
The  list  was  as  follows: 


Austin,   Glenn 
Bechtel,    Oscar 
Bivins,  Warren   C. 
Barrett,   Charles 
Cruitt,  James 
Coleman,  Kirk 
Courtright,  Harry 
Osborne,   Harry 


Davis,  Sam  C. 
Eiler,  Verner 
Fleming,    Bruce 
Gaylord,    Everett 
Herron,    Murphy   A. 
Holloway,  W.   C.    • 
Lamb,    Orville 
Stretch,   J.    Leonard 


Orb  erg,  Oscar 
Orberg,  Russell 
Parker,  Thomas 
Parish,  Ben 
Parish,  Harry 


— Photo  U.  S.  Signal  Corps 


Stretch,  George 
Sims,  Glenn 
Tallman,  Leverett 
Theobald,  Paul  K. 
Wallace,  Bert 


The  services  in  which  this  Service  Flag  was  dedi- 
cated included  patriotic  music  and  addresses  of  an 
eulogistic  and  patriotic  nature  by  Dr.  J.  C.  West- 
ervelt and  the  pastor  of  the  church,  the  Rev.  M.  G. 
Coleman.  Practically  every  branch  of  the  military 
service  was  represented  in  the  list  of  service  men. 


Page  Sixty-Three 


SHELBYVILLE  HIGH  SCHOOL  SERVICE 
FLAG 

A  beautiful  feature  of  the  decorations  of  the  Shel- 
byville  High  School  auditorium  in  1918  was  a  large 
Service  Flag,  the  stars  on  which  represented  former 
students  of  that  institution.  Many  of  them  were 
graduates,  while  some  of  them  had  not  finished  their 
course.  The  list,  which  included  the  name  of  the 
Principal,  Paul  K.  Theobald,  who  left  Shelbyville 
with  a  contingent  for  Fort  Thomas,  Ky.,  only  a  few 
hours  before  the  commencement  exercises  of  the 
senior  class  of  that  year,  is  as  follows: 
Auld,  F.  P.  l.amb,  Orville 

Bowman,   Fred  H.  Miller,  J.   Glenn 

Barrett,    Charles  Miner,    I.ester  W. 

Hechtel,  Oscar  McColley,   Wm.    G. 

Becker,   Milton  McBride,    Eddie 

Cecil.    Eugene  Moberley,   Grider 

Courtright,    Harry  Price,  John 

Cannon,   Lester  Parish,   Hen 

Davis,    Samuel    C.  Pauschert,  Harry 

Frazer,   Bernard  l?tl?'  H-  '-• 

Fry,    Edgar  Smith,  Claud 

Freybarger,   Floyd  Slocum,  George 

Fought,    Ellsworth  Scarborough,    W.    E. 

Fisher.   George  Storm,    Clair 

Hite,  B.  S.  Terry,   Gaylord 

Jarnagin,    R.    L.  Thompson,  William 

Johnson,   Robert  Twiss.  Chas.  L. 

Kelley,   Leo  Wakefield,   Everett 

Klauser,  Arthur  Wall.   Adrian 

Kull,    Carl  Worley,    Edmund 

Kull,    Paul  Wallace.    Bert 

Wallace,    Ogden 

Many  other  students  and  alumni  of  the  High 
School  were  in  the  service  later. 

COWDEX  CHRISTIAN  CHURCH  SERVICE 
FLAG 

Forty-one  stars  appeared  on  the  Service  Flag  of 
the  Christian  Church  of  Cowden  at  the  time  of  its 
dedication,  Sunday,  March  10,  1918.  The  services 
were  under  the  direction  of  Scout  Master  M.  W. 


Williams  and  the  Rev.  F.  M.  Morgan.  One  of  the 
stars  represented  Miss  Mary  Buzzard,  serving  in 
Base  Hospital  Xo.  66,  in  France  from  Dec.  2,  1917. 
The  men  of  Cowden  and  vicinity  for  whom  stars 
were  placed  on  the  flag  were: 


Askins,    Ilarlin 
Burris,  Cecil   R. 
Banning,  Henry 
Cherry,  T.  E. 
Christy,  Floyd 
Curtis,   Fred 
Conrad,  Ralph 
Cross.  Everett 
Casstevens,  Don 
Carlisle,   Roy 
Dush,   Roy 
Davis,  James 
Flannigan,  Rollo 
Fowler,  Ralph 
Garrett,  Hubert 
Horn,  Oral 
Horn,    Edward 
Henry,   C.    K. 
Heath,  George 
Kroeninger,  John 


Kroeninger.    Earl 
Lawhorn,  James 
Lawhorn,   David 
Montooth.  Arnold 
Mitchell,   Don 
McGee,  Sylvester 
McGee.   Bee 
Nichols,   Robert 
Phipps,  Claud 
Kiggs,   Martin 
Riemann.   Edward 
Roadarmel,  Vivian 
Stamper,   Leverett 
Steagall,  Rabron 
Taylor,  Miles  E. 
Tressler,    Lane 
Wright,  Cloyd 
Williams,   Thurman 
Wiley,   Ray 
Walters.    Clark. 


EPWORTH  LEAGUE  SERVICE  FLAG 

Honors  were  achieved  by  the  Epworth  League 
of  the  First  Methodist  Church  of  Shelbyville,  when 
in  a  District  Epworth  League  Convention  at  Deca- 
tur  on  Saturday,  June  15,  1918,  it  was  awarded  a 
Service  Flag  by  reason  of  the  local  chapter's  having 
more  of  its  members  in  active  military  service  than 
any  other  Epworth  League  chapter  in  the  district, 
including  those  of  Decatur  and  many  other  towns 
and  cities  in  several  counties.  Fourteen  members 
were  represented  on  the  League's  Service  Flag. 
They  were,  namely: 


Austin,    Glenn    G. 
Bechtel.   Oscar 
Courtright,    Harry 
C'oleman.  Kirk 
Davis,  Sam  C. 
Eiler,    Verner 
Holloway,   W.   C. 


Lamb.   Orval 
Orberg,    Russell 
Orberg,  Oscar 
Osborne,  Harry 
Stretch,   J.    Leonard 
Theobald,  Paul  K. 
Wallace,    Bert 


The  Thirtieth  Division 


More  than  thirty  Shelby  County  men  were  in  the 
Thirtieth  Division,  which  had  some  of  the  roughest 
experiences  of  the  A.  E.  F.  Landing  in  Liverpool 
May  27,  1918,  it  proceeded  directly  across  the  island 
and  to  Calais,  where  it  landed  May  28.  After  three 
days  it  proceeded  a  short  distance  by  train,  then 
hiked  to  Louche,  where  the  month  of  June  was  spent. 
On  July  2  the  march  to  Belgium  was  started,  and  at 
4  p.  in.,  July  4,  the  division  reached  Watou,  Belgium 
— the  first  American  troops  to  enter  Belgium.  There 
it  drew  the  fire  of  the  German  long  range  guns  by 
day  and  bombing  planes  by  night.  Attached  to  the 
Fourth  English  army,  the  division  soon  got  into  the 
thick  of  the  fray.  Early  in  August  the  division  took 
over  the  sector  between  Ypres  and  Kemmel  Hill, 
and  drew  large  shells  and  gas  shells  from  the  enemy 
daily.  Aug.  30  the  boys  went  over  the  top  and  cap- 
tured Vermerzeele,  while  the  27th  Division  took 
Kemmel  Hill  on  their  right.  This  was  the  begin- 
ning of  the  last  big  drive  the  allies  made  in  Belgium. 

Relieved  Sept.  3,  the  boys  were  sent  to  a  small 
town  near  St.  Pol,  France,  thence  to  Fincourt 
Woods,  near  Roisel.  The  division  there  had  its 
greatest  task — the  breaking  of  the  Hindenburg  line 
between  St.  Quentin  and  Cambria.  At  5:50  a.  m., 
Sept.  29,  a  long  range  gun  announced  the  zero  hour, 
and  hell  broke  lose.  Immediately  the  allied  artillery 
on  a  72-mile  front  laid  on  the  enemy's  trenches  the 
deadliest  barrage  the  world  has  ever  known.  After 
five  minutes  of  bombardment,  the  barrage  lifted  and 
the  infantry  went  over  the  top,  keeping  well  up  with 
the  artillery  fire.  So  deadly  was  the  allied  fire  that 


prisoners  captured  said  they  could  not  live  on  the 
enemy  side,  and  were  glad  to  reach  comparative 
safety  with  the  allies. 

On  Sept.  30  the  Americans  advanced  their  sta- 
tion to  what  was  formerly  the  enemy's  trenches,  in 
which  were  found  good  concrete  dugouts.  The  Aus- 
tralians sifted  through  the  American  lines,  and  the 
latter  dropped  back  to  Pincourt  Woods,  then  further 
back  to  the  banks  of  the  Sonime.  These  boys  re- 
turned to  the  front  about  Oct.  8,  remaining  for  a  few 
days,  and  then  were  relieved  and  dropped  back  to 
Ramicourt.  Again  they  went  to  the  front  for  an- 
other siege  in  the  trenches,  returning  from  which 
they  retired  to  Behewcourt,  remaining  there  until  the 
cessation  of  hostilities. 

In  the  State  Service 

Captain  Frank  R.  Wendling,  a  Shelby  County 
man,  was  during  the  war  and  is  still  in  the  state 
service.  He  was  born  in  Shelbyville  on  Jan.  1,  1852, 
a  son  of  the  late  George  E.  and  Frances  Wendling. 
He  is  state  senator  from  the  Fortieth  senatorial  dis- 
trict, and  also  since  May  1,  1913,  has  been  attached 
to  the  Adjutant  General's  Office,  with  rank  of  cap- 
tain. On  the  above  date  he  was  commissioned  by 
Governor  E.  F.  Dunne,  after  a  very  rigid  examina- 
tion, with  questions  furnished  by  the  United  States 
army  authorities.  His  headquarters  are  at  the  state 
arsenal  in  Springfield,  where  his  duties  are  exacting 
and  important. 

Page  Sixty-Four 


In 


Abbott,  Ivan  P.,  Findlay. 
Beck,  Win.  R.,  Gays. 
Bennett.  Russell,  Herrick. 
Bixler,  Clarence  M.,  Findlay. 
Broughton,  Wilber,  Stewardson. 
Brims    Herman  T.,  Pana. 
Carroll,  Arthur,  Shelbyville. 
Carroll,  Glen,  Moweaqua. 
Casstevens,  Geneva,  Fancher. 
Collins,  Herbert  J.,  Assumption. 
Corson,  Howard  T.,  Tower  Hill. 
Cox,  Charles,  Windsor. 
Curry,  Ota  D.,  Gays. 
Farris,  Noah  F.,  Bethany. 
Flinn,  James  W.,  Cowden. 
Garrett,  Earl  A.,  Windsor. 
Good,  James  A.,  Shelbyville. 
Gordon,  Lester,  Findlay. 
Gordy,  Cecil,  Clarksburg. 
Harlan,  Remann  H.,  Moweaqua. 
Haverstock,  Robert  F.,  Stewardson. 
Ireland,  James  R.,  Oconee. 
Jester,  Thomas  S.,  Pana. 
Johnson,  Lloyd,  Shelbyville. 
Kirker,  Geo.  H.,  Moweaqua. 
Krieg,  Paul,  Stewardson. 
Lading,  Henry  C.,  Strasburg. 
Lee,  Elza  L.,  Findlay. 
Lucas,  Willis,  Mook,  Ky. 
Mars,  Jesse,  Clarksburg. 
Mars,  Truman  G-  L--  Clarksburg. 
Mechling,  Alva,  Shelbyville. 
Moore,  George  E.,  Tow^er  Hill. 
Morris,  Aaron  E.,  Westervelt. 
Nippe,  Fred  W".,  Strasburg. 
Orberg,  Oscar  P.,  Shelbyville. 
Osborn,  Clo  C..  Tower  Hill. 
Patient,  Orlando  F.,  Findlay. 
Pieper,  Henry  F.  W.,  Strasburg. 
Pugsley,  Maxwell,  Neoga. 
Reiss,  Charles  E.,  Shelbyville. 
Rodgers,  Clifford  A.,  Tower  Hill. 
Ruff,  Andrew  E.,  Strasburg. 
Russell,  Noah  O.,  Trowbridge. 
Sarver,  LeRoy,  Henton. 
Sarver,  \Vm.  E.,  Herrick. 
Schutte,  John  L.,  Sigel. 
Settles,  Chas.  V.,  Shelbyville. 
Sherlock,  Frank,  Shelbyville. 
Smith,  Chas.  F.,  Holland. 
Sphar.  Chester  W.,  Tower  Hill. 
Stivison,  James  F.,  Moweaqua. 
Sudkamp,  Lawrence,  Sigel. 
Sutton,  Clarence,  Windsor. 
Tressler,  Vollie  L.,  Lakewood. 
Vanderpool,  Roy,  Shelbyville. 
Walker,  Bert  P.,  Windsor. 
Wall.  Adrian,  Decatur. 
Watkins,  Ira  C.,  Hanson. 
Weakley,  John  P.,  Moweaqua. 


by   courtesy  of  Ladies    Home  Journal. 
Copyright  Curtis  Publishing  Conipuny. 


IVAN  P.  ABBOTT 

Ivan  P.  Abbott,  a  son  of  Mrs.  Martha  Dawdy  of  near 
Fiiidlay,  died  in  France  of  wounds  received  in  action. 
Previously  he  had  been  reported  as  wounded  severely, 
and  later  announcement  of  his  death  was  received  by 
his  mother  from  the  war  department  at  Washington. 

Abbott  enlisted  at  Shelbyyille,  and  left  there  on  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1918,  with  a  contingent  of  54  men  for  Camp 
Taylor,  Louisville,  Ky.  He  was  in  the  same  contingent 
with  Herman  It  runs,  Lester  Gordon,  Andrew  E.  Ruff, 
Wm.  R.  Beck  and  Chas.  V.  Settles,  all  of  whom  have 
a  place  in  the  gold  star  section  of  this  history. 

Further  particulars  concerning  Abbott  were  unobtain- 
able. 


All  that  happens  in  the  world  of  nature  and  man, — • 
every  war,  every  peace,  every  horn  of  prosperity,  every 
horn  of  adversity,  every  election,  every  death,  every  life, 
every  success  and  every  failure,  all  change,  all  perman- 
ence", the  perished  leaf,  the  unutterable  glory  of  stars, — 
all  things  speak  the  truth  to  the  thoughtful  spirit. 

— Rufus  Choate. 


WILLIAM  ROSS  BECK 

Private  William  Ross  Beck  was  one  of  four  children 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  W.  Heck  of  Gays  who  gave  their 
services  to  their  country  during  the  war,  and  he  gave 
more  than  his  services — his  life. 

W.  R.  Beck,  aged  25  years,  was  inducted  into  the  army 
February  22,  1918,  leaving  Shelbyville  February  23,  for 
Camp-  Taylor,  Ky.,  at  which  point  he  was  in  training  one 
month.  Leaving  there  on  March  22,  he  was 'transferred 
to  Camp  Sevier,  S.  C.,  where  he  was  in  training  about 
six  weeks.  From  there  he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Mer- 
ritt,  which  was  his  last  station  before  sailing  for  France, 


WILLIAM  ROSS  BECK 

where  he  was  destined  to  meet  his  death  while  fighting 
for  the  liberty  of  the  world.  Ilis  movements  are  best 
told  in  the  following  excerpt  from  a  letter  received  by 
his  relatives : 

"Wm.  R.  Beck  sailed  from  Boston  May  12,  1918,  for 
Halifax  on  the  British  S.  S.  Laomedon ;  from  Halifax 
May  16  for  Liverpool.  On  the  21st  the  boat  was  at- 
tacked by  U-boats  on  the  Irish  coast,  but  the  attackers 
were  beaten  off  and  three  of  them  destroyed.  Landed 
May  27,  and  from  Liverpool  traveled  to  London  and 
Dover,  then  across  the  channel  to  Calais  on  the  28th  of 
May.  On  June  2d,  we  went  into  training  at  Yeuse,  and 
July  1st  we  began  our  hike  to  the  lines  in  Belgium,  near 
Ypres.  We  spent  the  last  ten  days  in  the  front  lines 
with  the  British,  on  the  right  of  this  town.  On  August 
15th  we  took  the  sector  from  Vpres  to  Mt.  Kemmel.  We 
were  in  the  last  battle  of  Kemmel,  and  took  Voormazeele 
September  2 — the  first  town  taken  by  American  troops 
in  Belgium.  .September  5th  we  were  relieved  from  this 
sector  and  were  then  used  only  as  storm  troops.  We 
were  in  the  St.  Quentin  and  Cambrai  drive,  and  took  the 
Hindenburg  line  at  Bellecourt  September  29.  Among 
other  towns  your  brother  fought  for  were  Nanroy,  Es- 
tress,  Busigny  and  Escaufort. 

"In  the  woods  between  Busigny  and  Escaufort  on  Oct- 
ober 9  your  brother  was  wounded  by  a  machine  gun 
bullet."  " 

On  November  5  the  family  received  a  letter  from  the 
nurse  who  attended  young  Beck,  to  the  effect  that  he 
was  very  seriously  wounded  in  the  abdomen  and  died  at 
7  o'clock  p.  m.,  October  9,  a  few  hours  after  being 
wounded.  He  is  buried  in  grave  No.  4,  plot  3,  row  A, 
in  the  military  cemetery  at  Roisel,  Department  of  the 
Somme,  France. 

And  his  name  is  written  in  letters  of  gold  on  the 
scroll  whereon  are  inscribed  the  names  of  America's  hero 
dead. 


RUSSELL  CLIXT  BENNETT 

Russell  Clint  Bennett  was  a  victim  of  Spanish  influenza, 
which  slew  its  hundreds  of  thousands,  thus  adding  to  the 
horrors  of  war.  His  death  occurred  at  Camp  Grant, 
Rockford,  111.,  on  the  7th  of  October,  1918,  after  he  had 
been  in  the  service  little  more  than  a  month  and  before 
he  had  an  opportunity  to  go  overseas. 

Bennett  was  a  son  of  Jacob  F.  and  Emma  Bennett, 
who  live  between  Herrick  and  Cowden,  and  was  born 
October  14,  1895.  The  place  of  his  birth  was  Edgar 
county,  Illinois,  though  he  had  lived  in  Shelby  county 
for  a  number  of  years  and  was  engaged  in  farming.  On 
the  5th  of  September,  1918,  he  enlisted  at  LaSalle,  III., 
and  was  assigned  to  Company  2,  161  Depot  Brigade,  at 
Camp  Grant.  On  the  14th  of  June,  1918,  he  married 
Miss  Pearl  Neva  Cherry,  a  daughter  of  James  H.  and 
Clara  Cherry  of  Herrick,  Shelby  county.  His  wife  and 
mother  visited  him  in  the  hospital  at  Camp  Grant,  and 
left  him  improved  in  health.  His  apparent  improvement 
was  a  false  condition,  however,  for  shortly  he  suffered 
a  relapse  and  died. 

The  body  of  Mr.  Bennett  was  conveyed  to  Herrick,  111., 
for  burial  in  the  family  lot  in  the  cemetery  there.  It 
was  accompanied  from  Camp  Grant  by  his  father,  who 
went  to  the  encampment  for  that  purpose. 

Lester  Bennett,  a  brother  of  the  deceased  soldier,  was 
in  camp  at  Fort  Benjamin  Harrison,  Indianapolis,  Ind., 
at  the  time  of  Russell's  death. 


CLARENCE  MONROE  BIXLER 

Clarence  M.  Bixler,  a  son  of  George  and  Anna  Bixler 
of  Findlay,  was  the  eleventh  Shelby  county  soldier  to 
give  his  life  for  his  country  during  the  World  War.  He 
died  of  wounds  received  in  battle,  according  to  the  mes- 
sage received  by  his  parents  from  the  War  Department 
at  Washington.  The  date  of  his  death  was  July  26,  1918, 
and  his  body  rests  in  one  of  the  numberless  graves  *'in 
Flanders  field." 

Bixler  was  born  in  Rose  township,  near  Shelby ville, 
August  3,  1894,  and  was  reared  as  a  farmer.  He  was 
one  of  the  first  registrants  in  the  county,  and  on  Sep- 
tember 19,  1917,  was  inducted  by  the  Local  Board  and 
with  sixty- three  other  men  was  sent  to  Camp  Taylor, 
Ky.  On  the  16th  of  the  following  Xovember,  with  sev- 
eral other  boys  from  Shelby  county,  he  was  transferred 
to  Camp  Pike,  Little  Rock,  Ark.  Early  in  1918  he  and 
his  associates  were  sent  to  Camp  Green,  and  about  April 
1  embarked  on  the  ill-fated  Moldavia,  which  fell  a  victim 
to  the  Hun  campaign  of  submarine  frightfulness  and  in 
going  down  took  two  of  the  Shelby  county  boys  with 
her.  These  were  Jesse  Mars  and  Henry  C.  Lading. 

That  Bixler  was  soon  at  the  front  and  under  fire  is 
indicated  by  the  fact  that  only  about  three  months  after 
landing  in  France  he  suffered  the  fatal  wounds. 

Bixler  was  survived  by  his  parents,  two  brothers  and 
three  sisters.  One  of  the  brothers  was  then  subject  to 
the  call  to  service,  but  was  not  called.  This  was  Frank 
Bixler.  The  other  was  Fred  Bixler,  an  older  brother. 
The  sisters  are  Mrs.  Sarah  Tinnea  and  the  Misses  Car- 
oline and  Bertha  Bixler,  all  residing  at  Findlay. 


While  craving  justice  for  ourselves,  it  is  never  wise 
to  be  unjust  to  others.  To  deny  valor  in  the  enemy  we 
have  conquered,  is  to  underrate  our  victory ;  and  if  the 
enemy  be  strong  enough  to  hold  us  at  bay,  much  more 
to  conquer  us,  ^  *  self-respect  bids  us  seek  some 

other  explanation   of  our   misfortunes  than  accusing  him 
of    qualiti'.s    inferior    to    our    own. 

—Lew  Wallace. 


The  triumphs  of  truth  are  the  most  glorious,  chiefly 
because  they  are  most  bloodless  of  all  victories,  deriving 
their  highest  lustre  from  the  number  saved,  not  of  the 
slain. 

— Colton. 


\n    3s 


WILBER  BROUGHTON 

Death  came  to  Wilher  Broughton,  a  valiant  and  pa- 
triotic son  of  Shelby  county,  on  the  battlefield  in  France, 
where  he  was  serving  as  a  messenger  and  scout  in  the 
United  States  army.  On  the  night  of  July  19,  1918,  he 
was  wounded,  and  removed  to  a  hospital  at  Oise,  France. 
Six  days  later,  or  on  July  25,  he  died  from  the  effects  of 
the  machine  gun  bullet.  He  met  death  as  he  had  met 
the  enemy,  bravely. 

Wilber  Broughton  was  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas 
Broughton  of  Stewardson.  He  was  born  at  Rose  Hill, 
111.,  March  26,  1899,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
nineteen  years  old.  At  an  early  stage  of  the  World  War 
he  enlisted  in  the  United  States  army  at  Danville,  and 
was  sent  to  Texas  for  training.  After  nine  months  there 
he  was  transferred  to  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained 
for  four  months  before  being  sent  to  France,  where  he 
served  with  the  23d  Inf.,  M.  G.  Co. 

Young  Broughton  was  a  splendid  young  man,  brave 
and  intrepid,  and  gave  splendid  service  before  cut  down 
by  the  weapons  of  the  enemy  in  the  foreign  field.  His 
family  and  friends,  the  latter  of  whom  were  many,  sin- 
cerely mourned  his  untimely  death. 


Exact  justice  is  commonly  more  merciful  in  the  long 
run  than  pity,  for  it  tends  to  foster  in  men  those  stronger 
qualities  which  make  them  good  citizens. 

• — Lowell. 


Justice,  sir,  is  the  great  interest  of  man  on  earth.  It 
is  the  ligament  which  holds  civilized  beings  and  civilized 
nations  together.  Wherever  her  temple  stands,  and  so 
long  as  it  is  duly  honored,  there  is  a  foundation  for  gen- 
eral security,  general  happiness,  and  the  improvement  and 
progress  of  our  race. 

—Daniel  Webster. 


HERMAN  T.  BRUNS 

Cheered  by  a  letter  from  his  wounded  son  in  which  the 
latter  stated  he  was  "doing  fine"  and  expected  to  start 
for  home  soon,  only  to  be  plunged  into  deepest  grief  by 
a  letter  from  a  chaplain,  telling  of  the  death  of  the  boy 
the  day  after  he  had  written  the  cheery  letter,  was  the 
experience  of  Theodore  Bruns  of  Pana,  whose  son,  Her- 
man T.  Bruns,  was  a  selective  service  man  of  Shelby 
county  and  left  Shelbyville  February  23,  1918,  with  a 
contingent  of  fifty -four  men  for  Camp  Taylor,  Ky. 

After  four  weeks  at  Camp  Taylor  Bruns  was  trans- 
ferred to  C'amp  Sevier,  S.  C.  May  10  he  sailed  {or 
France,  where  he  fought,  bled  and  died  for  human  freedom. 

Bruns  landed  in  France  on  the  25th  day  of  May,  and 
on  the  llth  of  the  following  July  spent  his  first  night  in 
the  trenches.  From  that  time  on  he  was  under  fire  al- 
most continuously,  and  on  the  6th  of  August  he  was 
stricken  by  the  full  force  of  Hun  frightfulness  and  sus- 
tained wounds  which  later  caused  his  death.  While 
cleaning  his  gun  in  front  of  a  dugout,  he  was  struck  by 
fragments  of  a  high  explosive  shell.  Six  of  his  comrades 
were  killed  outright.  lie  himself  lost  an  arm  and  a  leg 
and  two  fingers  on  his  right  hand,  and  sustained  a  fright- 
ful wound  in  the  jaw,  also  a  very  severe  wound  on  his 
left  shoulder.  <  >n  November  20  Chaplain  Moulton  wrote 
the  cheerful  letter  to  his  father.  The  next  day  the  boy 
died. 

Mr.  Bruns  was  born  July  2,  1895.  He  was  23  years, 
4  months  and  20  days  old  at  his  death.  Before  his  call 
to  the  colors  he  was  in  the  employ  of  his  brother,  Wil- 
liam Bruns,  on  a  farm  near  Tower  Hill,  and  was  regis- 
tered in  Shelby  county.  He  is  survived  by  his  father, 
the  brother,  William  Bruns,  another  brother,  John  Bruns 
of  Griggsville,  and  one  sister,  Mrs.  M innie  Ade  of  Pana. 
His  mother  died  Dec.  16,  1916.  In  his  infancy  he  was 
baptized  in  the  German  Lutheran  church  at  Pana. 

Bruns  was  given  Christian  burial  in  France  following 
his  death,  Chaplain  Moulton,  who  notified  his  father  of 
his  death,  saying  the  last  rites  over  his  body  as  it  was 
committed  to  a  grave  back  of  the  lines,  in  Boulogne, 
France. 


ARTHUR  CARROLL 

A  resident  of  Shelby  county  but  enlisting  in  Billings, 
Mont.,  Arthur  Carroll  went  forth  to  foreign  soil  to  fight 
for  freedom,  and  there  fell  a  victim,  not  to  shot  or  shell 
of  the  German  enemy,  but  to  the  deadly  disease,  pneu- 
monia. His  death  occurred  in  an  overseas  hospital  on 
the  10th  of  October,  1918,  about  two  months  after  he 
landed  in  France. 

Carroll  was  a  son  of  John  D.  and  Carrie  Belle  Carroll, 
who  live  near  Shelbyville.  He  was  born  February  13, 
1887,  at  Moweaqua,  and  was  reared  on  the  farm.  He 
went  to  Montana  and  was  employed  there  when  the 
United  States  went  to  war.  On  the  28th  of  June,  1918, 
he  enlisted  at  Billings,  and  was  assigned  to  Company  A, 
160th  U.  S.  Infantry.  He  was  first  in  Camp  Lewis, 
Washington,  and  later  in  Camp  Kearney,  California. 
After  only  five  weeks,  however,  he  was  sent  east  and  in 
August  sailed  for  France.  There  he  was  in  the  trenches 
a  period  of  five  weeks  before  contracting  the  disease 
which  caused  his  death.  For  three  years  before  the  war 
he  was  in  the  Coast  Artillery  at  Ft.  Flagler,  Washing- 
ton. His  complete  service  record  is  unknown,  and  could 
not  be  learned  for  incorpo ration  in  this  sketch.  It  is 
known,  however,  that  he  served  faithfully  and  well  for 
as  long  as  it  was  given  him  to  follow  his  officers  and 
accompany  his  comrades.  It  was  with  sad  hearts  the 
good  people  of  Shelby  county  placed  a  star  of  gold  on 
the  service  flag  in  his  memory. 


GLEN  CARROLL 

Glen  Carroll,  another  Shelby  county  boy  who  laid  his 
life  on  the  altar  of  his  country  and  hesitated  not  when 
the  complete  sacrifice  was  exacted  of  him,  did  not  reach 
France,  and  in  that  was  disappointed.  He  was  still  at 
Camp  Custer,  Battle  Creek,  Mich.,  when  he  was  stricken 
with  bronchial  pneumonia  and  died.  His  death  occurred 
September  20,  1918,  and  as  soon  as  military  and  health 
regulations  would  permit,  the  body  was  returned  to  Mo- 
weaqua  for  burial  near  his  old  home  in  Flat  Branch  town- 
ship. 

The  funeral  was  held  from  the  home  of  the  young 
man's  father-in-law,  Stephen  Hastings,  at  10  o'clock  Sat- 
urday morning,  October  19.  The  service  was  brief,  and 
the  Sanner  Chapel  choir  furnished  the  music.  The  casket 
of  the  dead  soldier  was  draped  with  the  American  flag, 
the  Home  Guards  of  Assumption  under  the  command  of 
Captain  Shan  acted  as  escort,  and  Herman  Foster  sound- 
ed "taps."  The  casket-bearers  were  chosen  from  among 
the  young  man's  friends,  and  were,  namely  :  Arthur  San- 
ner, William  Bohlen,  Milton  liridgman,  Fred  Elmers, 
Raymond  Coulter  and  Corry  Simpson. 


The  germs  of  all  truth  lie  in  the  soul,  and  when  the 
ripe  moment  comes,  the  truth  within  answers  to  the  fact 
without  as  the  flower  responds  to  the  sun,  giving  it  form 
for  heat  and  color  for  light. 

— Robert   Browning. 


Truth  is  open  to  all  men ;  she  is  not  as  yet  borne  away 
all ;    there    is   much   of   her   left    for   posterity    to    find    out. 

— Seneca. 


Justice  is  what  is  established;  and  thus  all  our  estab- 
lished laws  will  be  regarded  as  just,  without  being  exam- 
ined, since  they  are  established. 

—Pascal. 


Liberty  is  the  parent  of  truth,  but  truth  and  decency 
are  sometimes  at  variance.  All  men  and  all  propositions 
are  to  be  treated  here  as  they  deserve,  and  there  are 
many  who  have  no  claim  either  to  respect  or  decency. 

—Johnson. 


Truth     conquers     with     itself  ; 
among    those    who    are    eternal. 


but 


opinion     conquers 
— Epictetus. 


GENEVA  CASSTEVENS 

On  Shelby  county's  roll  of  "those  who  did  not  come 
back"  appears  the  name  of  one  woman — Miss  Geneva 
Casstevens,  who  laid  down  her  life  in  a  foreign  land  that 
others  might  live.  Spending  every  ounce  of  energy  in 
alleviating  the  distress  of  the  patients  in  the  army  hospi- 
tal at  Liverpool,  Kn gland,  Miss  Casstevens,  a  nurse  at- 
tached to  the  Major  I).  M.  ( >ttis  Hospital  I'nit,  con- 
tracted the  influenza,  which  quickly  developed  into  pneu- 
monia and  on  October  14,  1918,  only  a  week  and  a  day 
after  she  was  stricken,  caused  her  death. 

Miss  Casstevens  was  the  youngest  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  T.  J.  Casstevens  of  near  Fancher,  and  was  horn 
February  20,  1891,  near  Etna.  From  her  second  year  her 
home  was  in  Shelby  county.  Completing  the  rural  school 
course  she  went  to  the  home  of  a  sister  at  Moscow, 
Idaho,  where  she  took  the  high  school  training.  In  1909 
she  entered  the  Nurses'  Training  School  at  St.  Luke's 
hospital,  Boise,  Idaho,  and  for  four  years  after  her  grad- 
uation in  1912  she  nursed  in  that  state.  In  1916  she  came 
to  Springfield,  111.,  where  she  served  as  a  Red  Cross  nurse 
for  a  year.  Then  she  volunteered  for  overseas  service  and 
sailed  for  England  on  April  18,  1918.  She  was  assigned 
for  duty  in  Military  Hospital  Xo.  40  at  Liverpool,  where 
she  performed  her  duties  assiduously  and  efficiently. 

On  August  31,  1919,  a  memorial  service  was  held  in 
the  United  Brethren  church  at  Fancher.  In  the  audience 
were  her  brother,  Don  Casstevens,  her  brother-in-law.  Dr. 
E.  W.  Brooks,  and  her  nephews,  Glen  and  Jesse  Sculley 
of  West  Frankfcrt,  all  of  whom  served  also  in  the  war. 
One  of  her  ancestors  was  David  Crockett,  of  Alamo  fame, 
and  her  maternal  grandfather  fought  and  died  in  the 
Civil  war. 

Miss  Casstevens  is  survived  by  her  parents,  five  sisters 
and  three  brothers.  The  latter  are  Mrs.  Maude  Sculley 
of  West  Frankfort,  111..  Mrs.  Nellie  Brooks  of  Beecher 
City,  III.,  Mis.  Edna  Shinn  of  Spokane,  Wash.,  Mrs. 
Frances  Schaub  of  St.  Elmo,  111.,  Mrs.  Georgiana  Mc- 
Gilligan  of  Shelby ville,  J.  M.  of  Beecher  City,  T.  H.  of 
Mt  Vernon,  la.,  and  Don  of  Fancher. 


HERBERT  J.  COLLINS 

Private  Herbert  J.  Collins,  a  Shelby  county  recruit  of 
January,  1918,  failed  to  realize  his  ambition  to  tight  the 
Hun  from  the  air.  Within  twenty-four  hours  after  reach- 
ing Kelly  Field,  San  Antonio,  Texas,  to  which  he  was 
transferred  from  Jefferson  Barracks,  Mo.,  where  he  had 
been  assigned  to  Company  16,  Aviation  Corps,  after  his 
enlistment  at  Decatur  and  successful  passing  of  the  phy- 
sical examination,  he  was  stricken  with  pneumonia  and 
despite  the  fact  that  for  nine  long  weeks  he  made  as 
brave  a  fight  for  life  as  he  had  anticipated  making  for 
democracy,  he  died  on  April  2,  1918.  Death  followed  an 
operation  for  empyemia,  into  which  his  illness  had  devel- 
oped. 

Collins  was  born  in  Shelby  county,  October  9,  1898, 
and  was  the  only  son  of  his  parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  H. 
Collins.  They,  with  two  daughters.  Avis  and  Bertie, 
survive  the  young  man.  The  latter  was  reared  at  the  old 
homestead,  near  Assumption,  and  following  his  demise  at 
Kelly  Field  his  body  was  brought  back  there,  to  be  laid 
away  where  those  who  mourn  his  untimely  passing  may 
in  melancholy  satisfaction  visit  its  resting  place  from 
time  to  time.  The  body  was  accompanied  from  Kelly 
Field  by  his  mother,  whose  privilege  it  was  to  be  with 
and  minister  to  him  during  four  weeks  of  his  illness,  and 
Sergeant  Major  Frank  I.  Glenn  of  Kelly  Field. 

The  funeral  was  held  from  the  Presbyterian  church  in 
Assumption,  of  which  he  had  been  a  member  since  his 
profession  of  faith  in  191 4,  and  the  services  were  more 
largely  attended  than  any  of  like  character  in  the  history 
of  that  church.  The  young  soldier's  body  was  clothed  in 
the  uniform  he  had  expected  to  wear  on  the  field  of  bat- 
tle, and  the  casket  was  draped  with  the  flag  which  he 
had  sought  to  defend.  Troop  1,  Assumption  Boy  Scouts, 
attended  the  funeral  in  a  body,  and  each  Scout,  living 
symbol  of  a  comrade  who  fain  would  have  stood  at  the 
bier,  dropped  a  flower  into  the  grave.  Taps  were  sounded. 

Collins'  career  as  a  soldier  was  brief  and  uneventful; 
but  while  he  did  not  get  to  the  battle  zone  and  was  not 
under  fire,  he  gave  his  life  for  the  great  Ideal  as  truly  as 
the  man  who  fell  in  Flanders. 


ARTHUR  HOWARD  CORSON 

Arthur  Howard  Corson,  the  only  son  of  W.  S.  and 
F.  J.  Corson  of  Tower  Hill,  died  of  pneumonia  on  the 
15th  of  November,  1918,  at  Pauillac  Gironde,  France,  and 
was  buried  in  the  Pauitlac  cemetery  with  full  honors. 

Corson  enlisted  in  his  country's  service  May  11,  1917, 
and  was  called  to  service  as  yeoman  of  the  second  class 
on  the  4th  of  the  following  September.  He  was  sent  to 
the  Great  Lakes  Naval  Training  School,  where  he  re- 
mained until  July  25,  1918,  when  he  was  transferred  to 
the  navy  yard  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.  About  September  15 
he  was  sent  to  France,  and  after  arriving  there  was  made 
a  yeoman  of  the  first  class.  Two  months  after  his  land- 
ing in  France,  he  yielded  to  disease  and  passed  away. 

Mr.  Corson  was  born  in  Pleasant  Plains,  111.,  Nov.  5, 
1895,  and  come  to  Tower  Hijl  when  about  12  years  old. 
After  completing  his  course  in  the  public  schools  there, 
he  entered  Sparks  Business  College  in  Shelbyville,  taking 
the  stenotypy  course.  Graduating  therefrom  in  June, 
1915,  he  took  employment  with  the  Big  Four  Railroad 
company  and  until  his  enlistment  in  the  navy  was  em- 
ployed in  the  office  of  the  superintendent  at  Mattoon. 
In  June,  1918,  he  married  Miss  Martha  A.  Williams, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  W.  Williams  of  Mattoon, 
and  in  dying  was  survived  by  her  and  his  parents. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Corson  received  a  letter  from  Glenn  R. 
Ward,  one  of  the  young  man's  comrades,  who  in  testify- 
ing to  the  splendid  character  and  the  popularity  of  their 
son.  said : 

"I  worked  in  the  same  office  with  your  son  from  the 
time  he  reported  at  this  station  until  his  death,  and  de- 
sire to  state  that  he  created  the  impression  among  his 
many  shipmates  that  he  was  one  of  the  most  manly,  ener- 
getic and  ambitious  men  in  our  group,  and  his  death  was 
a  shock  that  will  always  be  felt  by  his  friends.  He  gave 
his  life  for  his  country  and  died  for  a  true  and  just  cause." 

Subsequent  to  receipt  of  the  word  of  his  death,  memor- 
ial services  were  held,  both  at  Mattoon  and  in  Sparks 
Business  College,  where  fitting  tributes  were  paid  to  the 
memory  of  the  dead  yeoman. 


CHARLES  COX 

Charles  Cox  of  Windsor  died  of  spinal  meningitis  in 
an  army  hospital  at  Recey-sur-Ource,  Cote  d'Or,  France, 
January  27,  1919,  according  to  an  announcement  received 
by  the  young  man's  parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Linza  Cox. 
Later  a  letter  from  Captain  Henry  T.  Kent,  52d  Infantry, 
U.  S.  A.,  of  whose  company  Cox  was  a  member,  wrote 
the  parents  a  letter  of  condolence,  in  which  he  stated, 
among  other  things:  "His  death  takes  from  the  company 
one  of  our  best  soldiers.  Always  faithful  to  duty,  we 
have  never  known  him  to  shirk  any  responsibility — 
prompt  at  formations  and  drill  and  in  every  way  a  good 
soldier.  While  in  active  service  in  the  Argonne  forest 
lie  conducted  himself  in  such  a  way  as  to  bring  com- 
mendation upon  him.  lie  died  doing  his  duty,  than 
which  there  is  no  nobler  death." 

Charles  Cox  was  25  years  old,  having  been  born  in 
Cheyenne  Co.,  Kansas,  September  11,  1893.  He  was  a 
graduate  from  the  Windsor  high  school,  completing  the 
course  with  the  class  of  1912,  and  was  president  of  the 
Alumni  from  1912  to  1918.  He  was  an  active  member 
of  the  Methodist  church  and  was  president  of  the  men's 
class  of  the  Sunday  school.  He  belonged  to  the  Red 
Men  lodge.  On  June  27,  1918,  he  was  inducted  by  the 
local  board,  and  on  the  following  day  entrained  with 
nearly  200  men  for  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.  Soon  after  arriv- 
ing there  he  volunteered  for  overseas  service,  and  was 
sent  to  France  August  6,  1918.  At  Camp  Taylor  he  was 
assigned  to  Company  53,  14  Bn.,  159  Depot  Brigade, 
later  was  transferred  to  Company  F,  155  Inf.,  then  to 
D,  154  Inf.,  and  later  to  Company  A,  in  which  company 
he  served  20  days  in  the  trenches  and  in  many  skir- 
mishes, and  of  which  he  was  a  member  at  the  time  of 
his  death.  Selected  at  Camp  Taylor  as  one  of  twelve 
men  from  the  company  for  expert  rifle  practice,  he.  was 
transferred  to  Camp  Beauregard,  La.,  and  later  to  New- 
port News,  from  whence  he  sailed  to  France  August  6, 
1918.  A  memorial  service  was  held  at  the  Methodist 
church  Dec.  14,  1919.  Cox  was  a  fine  civilian,  and  a 
most  excellent  soldier. 


OTA  D.  CURRY 

To  serve  valiantly  through  three  of  the  biggest  battles 
of  the  World  War,  on  the  Marne.  at  St.  Mihiel  and  in 
the  Argonne  front,  then  to  fall  prey  to  pneumonia  was 
the  fate  of  Ota  I).  Curry  of  Ash  Grove  township,  who 
enlisted  at  Champaign,  III.,  September  21,  1917,  and  ar- 
rived in  France  July  6,  1918.  After  his  induction  lie  was 
sent  to  Camp  Dodge,  where  he  was  assigned  to  the  347th 
Infantry.  Later  he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Pike,  with 
the  345th,  and  later  to  Camp  Merritt.  On  the  19th  of 
June,  1918,  he  sailed  from  Hoboken,  and  landed  at  Bor- 
deaux July  6.  Thirteen  days  later  he  was  assigned  to 
the  30th  Inf.,  3d  Division,  and  went  at  once  to  Head- 
quarters company,  attached  to  a  signal  platoon.  He  was 
in  the  American  counter  attack  on  the  Marne  until  about 
the  J6th  of  July,  then  went  to  the  St.  Mihiel  front,  and 
after  a  few  days  was  sent  to  the  Argonne-  Meuse  front. 

Mr.  Curry  was  taken  ill  at  Salzig  on  December  13 
and  went  to  the  infirmary,  but  after  a  day  in  bed  started 
on  a  hike  with  his  battalion.  He  was  compelled  to  fall 
out  of  Hue,  however,  and  was  taken  in  the  ambulance  to 
Coblenz,  where  he  died  December  23. 

Ota  I).  Curry  was  the  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  S.  Curry 
of  Gays,  and  a  twin  brother  of  Oda  E.  Curry,  who  also 
served  in  the  army  in  France.  He  was  born  near  Gays 
October  6,  1887,  and  before  his  enlistment  was  conductor 
on  the  street  railway  in  Champaign,  Til.  On  November 
12,  1916,  he  married  Miss  Edna  !„.  Waggoner,  a  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Philip  Waggoner  of  Gays.  The  parents, 
wife,  four  brothers  and  five  sisters  survive  the  death  of 
the  brave  young  man,  who  gave  himself  to  sacrificial  ser- 
vice to  the  world.  The  brothers  are  Oda  E.  Curry,  al- 
ready mentioned,  Artie,  Frank  and  Leslie  Curry.  The 
sisters  are  Mrs.  M.  II.  Cullen,  Mrs.  Robert  Delong,  Mrs. 
Russell  Armantrout,  Mrs.  Myrtle -Houston  of  Champaign, 
and  Miss  Elva  Curry.  The  young  man  was  possessed  of 
splendid  character.  He  was  a  member  of  Gays  Camp, 
Modern  Woodmen  of  America. 

Mrs.  Curry,  who  during  the  service  of  her  husband  in 
France  and  since  his  death  there  has  been  a  teacher  in 
M  oultrie  county  schools,  had  two  brothers  in  service. 


NOAH  F.  KARRIS 

Seven  days  after  the  signing  of  the  armistice,  Noah  F. 
Farris,  son  of  John  II.  and  Mattie  R.  Farris  of  northern 
Shelby  county,  gave  up  his  life  in  a  foreign  army  hospi- 
tal. His  death  occurred  at  Gondercourt,  France,  Nov- 
ember 18,  1918,  and  was  due  to  spinal  meningitis,  con- 
tracted while  in  service.  According  to  direct  word  re- 
ceived by  his  parents,  the  body  of  the  young  man  lies 
in  a  beautiful  American  cemetery,  though  in  foreign  soil. 

Mr.  Farris  was  born  December  29,  1893,  on  a  farm  in 
Todd's  Point  township,  where  his  parents  still  reside. 
He  was  reared  on  the  farm,  and  was  engaged  in  agricul- 
tural pursuits  before  he  was  inducted  into  military  ser- 
vice at  Shelbyville,  June  27,  1918.  With  his  comrades  of 
the  contingent,  he  was  sent  to  Camp  Taylor,  Louisville, 
Ky.,  and  there  was  assigned  to  the  159th  Depot  Brigade. 
Later  he  was  transferred  to  Fort  Benjamin  Harrison,  at 
Indianapolis,  Ind.,  where  he  was  placed  with  G  Com- 
pany, 22d  Engineers,  with  which  he  remained  throughout 
his  service. 

After  a  period  of  training  at  Fort  Benjamin  Harrison, 
Farris  was  sent  overseas,  and  sailed  from  New  York. 
He  landed  at  Liverpool,  Eng.,  and  then  proceeded  to  La 
Havre,  France,  where  he  arrived  some  time  in  August, 
1918.  He  was  in  training  overseas  several  months. 

Young  Farris  was  the  third  of  three  brothers  to  enter 
military  service.  The  first  was  John  W.  Farris,  who  was 
inducted  October  3,  1917,  and  sent  to  Camp  Taylor, 
where  he  was  held  for  special  work  and  did  not  realize 
his  ambition  to  go  overseas.  T*he  second  brother  was 
Thomas  J.  Farris,  who  was  inducted  April  30,  1918,  and 
sent  to  Camp  Dix,  N.  J.  He  was  assigned  to  the  308th 
Field  Artillery,  and  saw  service  in  France.  He  reached 
home  on  Decoration  Day,  1919,  and  his  brother  John 
arrived  the  1  olio  wing  day.  Only  the  presence  of  the 
valiant  lad  who  had  given  his  life  was  needed  to  make 
the  family  circle  complete  and  happy.  Mr.  Farris  is  sur- 
vived by  Ins  parents,  the  two  veteran  brothers,  and  the 
following  brothers  and  sisters,  namely:  Lewis  McKinley 
Farris,  Charles  A.  Farris,  Mrs.  Jennie  B.  C'ole  of  Mo* 
weaqua,  and  Miss  Delia  May  Farris. 


JAMES  W.  FLINN 

"He  was  the  only  son  of  his  mother,  and  she  was  a 
widow,"  can  be  said  of  Corporal  James  W.  Flinn  of  Dry 
Point  township,  as  it  was  of  the  son  of  the  widow  of 
Xahi.  Moreover,  it  may  be  said  of  Flinn  that  he  was 
the  only  son  of  Dry  Point  township  who  lost  his  life  in 
action  during  the  World  War.  He  was  killed  October 
24,  1918,  in  the  Argonne,  where  he  was  lighting  witli  his 
company,  F  of  the  354th  Infantry,  89th  Division,  in 
which  he  had  been  made  a  corporal  and  placed  in  charge 
of  a  detail  of  thirteen  men  a  short  time  before.  Pre- 
vious to  that  he  had  been  a  liaison  runner,  connected 
with  both  battalion  and  regimental  headquarters  and  per- 
forming his  perilous  duties  with  bravery  and  efficiency 
than  won  favorable  comment  from  his  superior  officers 
and  comrades. 

Corporal  Flinn  was  a  son  of  Mrs.  Mary  Flinn  of  Dry 
Point  township,  and  was  her  only  support.  Before  the 
war  he  was  manager  of  a  brokerage  house  in  Oklahoma 
City,  Okla.  He  registered  at  Denver,  Col.,  and  left  for 
service  from  the  home  of  an  uncle,  E.  W.  Rider,  a  former 
resident  of  Shelby  county.  He  entered  the  service  on 
August  26,  1918,  and  was  sent  to  Camp  Funston.  After 
short  training  there  and  on  the  rifle  range,  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  an  eastern  embarkation  camp  and  left  for  over- 
seas, arriving  in  France  about  July  1 .  On  August  2  he 
was  on  the  firing  line,  and  was  made  liaison  runner. 
The  need  for  experienced  men  after  the  depletion  of  his 
company,  led  to  his  transfer  back  to  the  company  and 
his  rank  as  corporal.  He  was  in  the  hard  fighting  of 
St.  Mi  hi  el  and  the  Argonne,  and  men  and  officers  who 
were  associated  with  him  declare  that  he  acquitted  him- 
self as  a  brave  and  patriotic  soldier.  Major  (General 
Winn  wrote  his  mother,  subsequent  to  the  young  man's 
death,  that  he  was  a  fine  soldier,  did  all  that  was  asked 
of  him,  and  died  bravely.  Flinn  was  survived  by  his 
widowed  mother  and  one  sister.  Mrs.  Xell  Ensor  of 
Cowden. 


EARL  A.  GARRETT 

C'orporal  Earl  A.  darrett,  son  of  Peter  Garrett  of 
Windsor,  111.,  died  May  31,  1918,  from  the  effect  of 
wounds  received  while  commanding  a  gun  in  the  capture 
of  a  village  occupied  by  the  Germans  on  May  28  and  29. 
His  captain  writes  that  "he  did  splendi.I  work  keeping 
his  gun  in  action  and  looking  after  his  squad,  although 
under  the  most  severe  shell  fire."  A  shell  fell  in  the 
trench  where  he  was,  killing  two  and  wounding  three, 
of  whom  he  was  one.  He  died  shortly  after  being  evacu- 
ated to  the  hospital. 

Garrett  was  born  September  20,  1889.  On  Sept.  23, 
1910,  he  enlisted  in  Co.  L,  23d  Infantry,  and  at  the  ex- 
piration of  his  three-years  enlistment  was  honorably  dis- 
charged Sept.  26,  1913.  On  March  18,  1914.  he  re- 
enlisted  at  Columbus  Barracks,  Columbus,  Ohio,  and 
served  in  Panama  from  March  25,  1915,  to  Aug.  18,  1915, 
when  at  his  own  request  and  because  of  his  excellent 
service  he  again  was  honorably  discharged.  Under  the 
draft  law  in  1917  his  number  was  the  1 1th  drawn  at 
Washington  and  the  3d  in  Shelby  county.  However,  as 
the  son  of  a  volunteer  in  the  Civil  war,  he  waited  not 
for  the  operation  of  the  machinery  of  the  draft,  but  on 
July  27,  1917,  enlisted  at  Indianapolis  in  the  46th  Inf. 
When  the  commanding  officer  called  for  volunteers  for 
the  28th  regiment,  part  of  which  already  was  in  France, 
he  was  the  first  to  step  forward.  Later  he  was  asked  to 
go  to  Camp  Taylor  as  top  sergeant  to  train  men  for 
France;  but  to  his  commanding  officer  he  said:  "I  am 
ready  for  action,  but  if  I  am  to  be  of  any  use  to  my 
country,  let  me  go  to  France,"  and  on  Oct.  27,  1917, 
he  sailed.  Over  there  he  was  assigned  to  2d  Co.,  Di- 
visional Machine  Gun  Ilattalion,  1st  Div.,  A.  E.  F.t  and 
fell  in  the  desperate  fighting  for  the  capture  of  Catigny. 
His  body  lies  in  Cemetery  Xo.  170,  grave  No.  172,  at 
Uonvillers,  on  the  Ois<_-. 

To  Garrett's  father  his  captain  wrote:  "He  died  in 
action,  nobly  performing  his  duty  for  his  country,  and 
you  can  well  be  proud  of  him,  as  I  am." 


JAMES  A.  GOOD 

James  Abraham  Good,  a  Shelby ville  soldier  at  Camp 
A.  A.  Humphreys,  Va.,  died  Sunday,  October  6,  1918, 
of  Spanish  influenza  and  pneumonia. 

Young  Good  was  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  L.  Good, 
and  was  born  in  Rose  township,  just  west  of  Shelbyville, 
September  9,  1896.  He  was  reared  on  the  farm.  In 
1914  he  matriculated  with  the  Shelbyville  high  school, 
and  completed  the  course  in  the  spring  of  1918.  Immed- 
iately he  enlisted  in  his  country's  service,  was  accepted 
and  sent  to  Camp  A.  A.  Humphreys,  where  at  the  time 
of  his  death  he  was  a  member  of  Company  F,  2d  En- 
gineers Training  regiment.  His  death  occurred  at  the 
base  hospital  at  the  training  camp. 

James  Good  was  a  young  man  of  splendid  character, 
honest  and  industrious,  and  was  held  in  high  esteem  by 
all  who  knew  him.  He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  four 
brothers  and  three  sisters.  The  brothers  are  Winfred 
Good  of  St.  Louis,  Clint  Good  of  Kansas  City,  Ruel  M. 
Good,  who  holds  a  civil  service  position  at  the  reforma- 
tory at  Pontiac,  111.,  and  John  Good,  who  served  with  the 
American  army  in  France.  The  sisters  are  Miss  Mabel 
Good,  holding  a  civil  service  appointment  at  the  Southern 
Illinois  hospital  at  Anna,  and  the  Misses  Kmma  and 
Elizabeth  Good  of  Shelbyville. 

The  body  of  James  Good  was  returned  to  Shelbyville 
on  Sunday,  October  13,  and  because  of  health  restrictions 
was  held  at  a  mortuary  until  the  hour  of  the  funeral, 
2  o'clock  p.  m.,  Monday,  October  14.  It  was  then  con- 
veyed to  Glenwood  cemetery,  where  it  was  given  a  semi- 
military  burial.  The  colors  were  borne  by  Former  Color 
Sergeant  John  Wilburn,  and  the  Shelbyville  Commercial 
Club  and  the  high  school  class  of  1918  served  as  a  guard 
of  honor.  "Old  Glory"  floated  at  half  mast  near  the 
grave,  and  the  services  were  peculiarly  impressive.  Rev- 
eille, retreat  and  the  call  to  the  colors  were  sounded, 
and  as  retreat  was  sounded  the  flag  was  lowered  and  the 
flower-  and  flag-draped  casket  found  its  resting  place  in 
the  grave.  Following  the  benediction  taps  were  sounded. 


LESTER  GORDON 

Lester  Gordon,  farmer  and  soldier,  died  October  8, 
1918.  His  death  was  due  to  organic  cardiac  disorder, 
and  took  place  at  St.  Elizabeth  s  hospital,  Lafayette, 
Ind.,  to  which  institution  he  was  taken  from  the  train 
when  his  condition  became  critical,  as  he  was  en  route  to 
his  home  in  Findlay  from  Camp  Sevier,  S.  C.,  where  he 
received  his  discharge  the  preceding  September  30. 

Lester  Gordon  was  born  at  Moweaqua,  111.,  October  7, 
1891,  and  was  a  son  of  Jesse  and  Melvina  Gordon,  now 
of  Shelbyville.  He  was  reared  on  the  farm,  and  followed 
agricultural  pursuits  before  his  military  service.  On  De- 
cember 21,  1912,  he  married  Miss  Hazel  Underwood,  a 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  M.  Underwood  of  Findlay. 
He  was  inducted  February  22,  1918,  for  army  service  and 
with  53  other  Shelby  county  boys  was  sent  to  Camp  Tay- 
lor, Ky.,  where  he  was  assigned  to  the  18th  Co.,  Depot 
Brigade.  In  the  following  month  he  was  transferred  to 
Camp  Sevier,  S.  C.,  where  he  was  placed  in  the  119th 
Inf.,  30th  Division.  In  May  of  the  same  year  he  was 
transferred  to  Company  A,  1  Provisional  Dev.  regiment 
at  Camp  Sevier.  He  was  made  company  clerk,  and  was 
given  rank  of  sergeant. 

The  climate  at  Camp  Sevier  did  not  agree  with  Ser- 
geant Gordon,  and  serious  heart  trouble  developed.  He 
finally  received  an  honorable  discharge  for  disability,  and 
started  on  the  homeward  journey  that  was  destined  to  be 
interrupted  by  death.  Following  the  death  of  Gordon  at 
Lafayette,  the  body  was  taken  to  Findlay,  arriving  there 
on  Thursday,  October  10.  At  3  o'clock  in  the  afternoon 
of  the  same  day  the  funeral  was  conducted  from  the 
Christian  church  at  Findlay,  conducted  by  the  Rev. 
Myrtle  Storm  of  Bethany. 

Besides  the  parents  and  wife.  Mr.  Gordon  is  survived 
by  three  sisters  and  four  brothers,  namely :  Elza,  Wil- 
liam, Charles  and  Alva  Gordon,  all  living  in  or  near 
Findlay,  Miss  Delia  Gordon,  living  at  home,  Mrs.  Dora 
Salmons  of  Shelbyville  and  Mrs.  Barbara  Stockdale  of 
Tower  Hill. 


CECIL  GORDY 

Cecil  Gordy,  a  son  of  Ben  Gordy  of  Clarksburg  hut 
who  was  at  work  in  Iowa  at  the  time  of  the  registration 
and  induction  of  the  young  men  of  the  country,  was  re- 
ported by  the  war  department  to  have  been  killed  in 
action  in  France  on  either  the  23d  of  October,  1919,  or 
the  4th  of  November  following.  The  only  definite  infor- 
mation concerning  his  death,  and  that  is  meagre,  is  from 
a  friend  and  comrade,  who  states  that  four  of  them  were 
in  a  shell  hole,  when  young  Gordy  was  killed  by  an  ex- 
ploding shell.  The  place  and  battle  are  unknown  to  the 
young  man's  relatives. 

Gordy  was  born  April  26,  1889,  in  Douglas  county, 
III.,  and  when  he  grew  up  followed  agricultural  pursuits, 
lie  enlisted  August  29,  1918,  at  Cedar  Rapids,  la.,  and 
was  assigned  to  Co.  C,  4th  Inf.,  Replacement  regiment, 
Camp  Gordon,  and  went  overseas  about  October  1,  1918. 
In  France  he  served  with  Company  C,  163d  Infantry, 
American  Expeditionary  Force. 

Gordy's  mother  is  dead.  He  is  survived  by  his  father, 
three  brothers  and  three  sisters.  The  brothers  are  Wil- 
liam Gordy  of  Tuscola,  II 1.,  Leonard  Gordy  of  Iowa, 
and  Mearl  Gordy  of  Si  on  tana.  Tlie  sisters  are  Mrs. 
Grace  Barger  of  Montana,  Mrs.  Ada  Wood  of  Arthur, 
111,,  and  Mrs.  Laura  Strohl  of  Clarksburg. 


Truth  always  has  a  bewitching  savor  of  newness  in  it, 
and  novelty  at  the  first  taste  recalls  that  original  sweet- 
ness to  the  tongue ;  but  alas  for  him  who  would  make 
the  one  a  substitute  for  the  other. 

—Lowell. 


Justice  is  itself  the  great  standing  policy  of  civil  so- 
ciety ;  and  any  departure  from  it,  under  any  circum- 
stances, lies  under  the  suspicion  of  being  no  policv  at  all. 

—Burke. 


REMANN  H.  HARLAN 

Remann  Humphrey  Harlan  of  Moweaqua,  with  more 
than  a  year's  service  in  this  country  and  with  the  Amer- 
ican Expeditionary  Force  in  France  back  of  him,  re- 
turned to  his  home  to  die.  His  death  occurred  there  on 
June  19,  1919,  less  than  a  month  after  his  return  from 
foreign  soil.  He  died  of  pneumonia,  which  developed 
Irom  an  illness  he  sustained  while  he  was  in  France. 

Harlan  was  a  son  of  Lewis  E  and  Susan  Harlen,  and 
was  born  near  Moweaqua  October  23,  1894.  He  was 
reared  at  Moweaqua,  where  he  held  an  enviable  posi- 
tion in  church  and  social  circles.  He  was  selected  by 
the  local  board  January  23,  1918,  and  was  sent  rirst  to 
Fort  Oglethorpe,  Ga.,  then  to  Kelly  Field,  San  Antonio, 
Tex.  Later  he  was  transferrd  to  Fort  Omaha  and  as- 
signed to  18th  Balloon  company.  He  went  to  Newport 
News,  where  he  was  in  quarantine  because  of  influenza 
for  six  weeks  before  sailing.  He  landed  in  France  No- 
vember 3,  after  a  fourteen-day  voyage.  It  was  not  his 
lot  to  get  into  active  service  overseas,  and  after  six 
months  at  Bordeaux  was  returned  to  Newport  News, 
then  he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Lee,  Va.,  and  event- 
ually discharged  at  Camp  Grant.  He  reached  his  home 
at  Moweaqua  May  21,  1919,  and  died  as  stated,  from 
complications  due  to  exposure.  The  funeral  was  held 
on  Sunday,  June  22,  from  the  Baptist  church,  in  which 
the  young  soldier  had  been  an  active  worker,  including 
in  Ins  activities  the  presidency  of  both  the  Junior  and 
Senior  Christian  Endeavor  societies,  at  different  times. 
The  active  casket-bearers  were  soldiers,  namely :  Glen 
Tolly,  Maurice  Scribner,  Clayton  Shepherd,  Ilaldon 
Avars,  Ralph  Adams  and  Jesse  Chapman.  The  honorary 
pall -hearers  were  cousins  of  the  dead  youth,  namely : 
Clayton,  Rolland,  Glen,  Clarence  and  James  Humphrey 
and  Lawrence  Drake. 

Harlan  is  survived  by  his  father,  a  Civil  war  veteran, 
his  mother  and  one  brother. 

The  memory  of  the  young  soldier  is  honored  in  that 
the  recently  organized  post  of  the  American  Legion  at 
Moweauqua  is  named  the  Remann  H.  Harlan  Post. 


ROBERT  FRAXCIS  HAVERSTOCK 

The  influenza  scourge  and  its  aftermath,  pneumonia, 
which  were  even  more  deadly  to  United  States  soldiers 
than  the  shot,  shell  and  gas  of  the  Hun,  were  responsible 
for  the  death  of  Robert  Francis  Haverstock  on  Friday, 
October  18,  1918.  The  end  came  at  the  base  hospital 
at  Camp  Funston,  Kansas,  where  be  was  under  treat- 
ment for  a  week  for  pneumonia,  and  where  he  was  given 
the  kindliest  consideration  possible  by  the  greatly  over- 
worked hospital  staff.  With  the  young  man  at  his  death 
were  his  father  and  mother,  John  C.  and  Dora  Haver - 
stock  of  Stewardson,  who  had  been  summoned  to  his 
bedside  when  his  condition  became  critical.  The  body 
was  brought  to  Stewardson,  escorted  by  Gilbert  E. 
Wagers,  who  was  assigned  to  that  duty  by  the  authori- 
ties at  Camp  Funston.  The  government  also  provided 
a  floral  piece  for  the  funeral,  which  took  place  at  the 
family  home  soon  after  arrival  of  the  body  and  its  at- 
tendants, llurial  took  place  in  the  Stewardson  cemetery. 

Havertock  was  born  June  20,  1896,  at  the  family  home 
just  east  of  Stewardson.  He  was  reared  to  agricultural 
pursuits,  but  for  the  year  preceding  his  call  to  the  col- 
ors, September  5,  1918,  he  worked  at  Peoria,  Illinois, 
and  C'oncordia,  Kansas.  On  his  induction  he  was  sent 
to  Camp  Funston,  but  within  four  weeks  was  stricken 
with  his  fatal  illness.  In  the  meantime  he  had  been  as- 
signed to  25th  Company,  164  Depot  Brigade,  with 
which  it  was  his  hope  to  see  foreign  service. 

Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  his  sickness  and  ap- 
proaching death  were  a  keen  disappointment  to  the 
young  man,  he  stated  to  his  parents  before  the  end 
came  that  he  was  at  peace,  and  happy.  The  esteem 
in  which  he  was  held  by  the  people  of  his  home  com- 
munity was  fully  attested  by  the  floral  expressions  at 
the  time  of  his  funeral,  and  the  many  acts  of  kindness 
shown  the  sorrowing  family  by  the  business  men,  the 
Modern  Woodmen  of  America  and  the  public  in  gen- 
eral. 

Resides  bis  parents,  Haverstock  is  survived  by  two  sis- 
ters and  four  brothers.  One  of  the  latter  was  regis- 
tered, being  in  the  18-21  class.  One  brother  is  dead. 


JAMES  R.  IRELAND 

Just  two  weeks  after  he  set  foot  on  the  soil  of  France, 
with  the  purpose  of  helping  to  rid  that  country  of  the 
hated  enemy  and  make  the  world  free  from  autocracy 
forever,  James  Roy  Ireland  of  <  tconee  bowed  to  the 
conqueror  Heath,  and  laid  down  his  life  at  Mehun, 
France,  to  which  point  he  had  marched  with  his  com- 
rades from  II re st.  His  death  was  due  to  pneumonia, 
which  was  the  outgrowth  of  influenza. 

James  Ireland  was  born  at  Oconee,  Shelby  county, 
November  28,  1893,  the  son  of  James  M.  and  Mary  C. 
Ireland.  After  completing  hts  education  he  engaged 
in  school  teaching,  and  for  three  years  was  in  charge 
of  schools  in  Shelby  county,  continuing  that  profession 
until  the  time  of  his  induction,  June  27,  1918.  He  left 
Shelbyville  with  a  contingent  of  new  soldiers  for  Camp 
Taylor,  Ky.,  and  later  was  in  both  Camp  Reauregard 
and  Camp  Stuart.  lie  sailed  from  Newport  News  Au- 
gust 6,  1918,  and  landed  at  Brest  August  18.  From  this 
port  he  marched  to  a  point  near  Mehun,  where  he  was 
stricken  with  his  fatal  illness.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Masonic  lodge,  and  the  Masons  of  his  company,  R 
of  the  141st  Machine  Gun  Battalion,  gave  him  Chris- 
tian burial  and  marked  bis  grave  at  Mehun  with  a  foot- 
stone,  upon  which  was  placed  his  name  and  company. 
M  ilitary  honors  were  accorded  him  in  his  burial. 

Ireland  was  well  known  in  Shelby  county  as  a  pro- 
gressive young  educator,  who  was  very  successful  in  his 
work  as  a  teacher.  He  had  a  strong  personality,  and 
had  he  not  met  an  untimely  death  would  have  made 
his  mark  in  the  educational  world,  is  the  opinion  of 
those  who  knew  him  and  had  observed  bis  career.  He 
is  survived  by  his  parents  and  several  brothers  and  sis- 
ters. 

Great  patriots,  therefore,  must  be  men  of  great  ex- 
cellence ;  and  it  is  this  alone  that  can  secure  to  them 
lasting  admiration.  It  is  by  this  alone  that  they  be- 
come noble  to  our  memories,  and  that  we  feel  proud  in 
the  privilege  of  doing  reverence  to  their  nobleness. 

— Henry   Giles. 


THOMAS  S.  JESTER 

Sergeant  Thomas  Steven  Jester  of  Tower  Hill  died  at 
Fort  Logan  H.  Root,  Ark.,  Thursday,  December  12, 
1918,  of  pneumonia.  His  body  was  immediately  sent 
to  his  home,  arriving  there  on  Friday,  December  13, 
under  the  escort  of  Sergeant  F.  R.  Duernberger. 

Sergeant  Jester  was  a  son  of  Lewis  and  Christie  Mills 
Jester  of  Tower  Hill,  and  was  born  August  27,  1887,  in 
Shelby  county.  lief  ore  his  induction,  January  9,  1918, 
he  was  employed  as  a  miner.  On  December  17,  1914, 
he  married  Miss  Tennie  M.  Pollard  of  Tower  Hill,  who 
is  a  daughter  of  Mrs.  Ed.  Mills  of  Tower  Hill.  Her 
father  is  deceased.  One  son,  Wilba  Marion  Jester,  was 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs  Jester  on  June  2,  1916,  and  is 
among  the  survivors  of  his  father's  death. 

Following  his  induction,  Jester  was  sent  to  Ft.  Ogle- 
thorpe,  Ga.,  and  later  to  Fort  Logan  II .  Root,  Ark. 
He  was  attached  to  the  medical  corps,  and  during  the 
eleven  months  he  was  with  the  army  he  did  much  splen- 
did service.  During  the  "flu"  epidemic  he  helped  care 
for  several  hundred  influenza  patients  before  he  him- 
self was  stricken  with  pneumonia,  which  resulted  in  his 
death.  During  his  illness  he  was  very  patient,  and  it 
was  reported  by  those  who  were  with  him  in  cam])  that 
his  thoughts  ever  were  of  others,  rather  than  of  him- 
self and  his  own  condition. 

Jester's  good  service  won  for  him  the  rank  of  ser- 
geant on  September  16.  1918,  One  brother,  Howard 
Jester,  was  in  service  in  Cuba  at  the  time  of  his 
brother's  death. 

Sergeant  Jester  is  survived  by  his  parents,  wife  and 
son,  the  brother  already  mentioned,  and  another  brother, 
Leurs  Jester,  of  Mingus,  Texas,  and  the  following 
named  sisters :  Mrs.  Olive  Clark,  Mrs.  Ora  Holing, 
Mrs.  Goldie  Jester  Towers,  and  the  Misses  Gladys  and 
Clara  Jester,  all  of  Shelby  county,  and  Mrs.  J.  W.  Hayes 
of  El  Paso,  Texas.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  church,  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  United 
Mine  Workers.  His  funeral  was  held  from  the  Meth- 
odist church  in  Pana  on  Sunday,  December  15,  1918, 
and  burial  took  place  in  Mound  cemetery  in  that  city. 


LLOYD  VERNON  JOHNSON 

Lloyd  Vernon  Johnson,  a  former  member  of  Com- 
pany H,  130th  U.  S.  Infantry,  died  at  the  home  of  his 
mother,  Mrs.  Sarah  Stanley,  in  Shelby ville,  on  Thurs- 
day, February  13,  1918.  Death  was  due  to  tuberculo- 
sis, with  which  he  had  been  afflicted  for  some  time, 
and  which  was  responsible  for  his  discharge,  from  the 
company  at  Camp  Logan,  Houston,  Texas,  before  that 
unit  left  for  overseas  service  in  the  summer  of  1918. 

Johnson  was  born  in  Vernon  county.  Mo.,  July  26, 
1896.  His  father  was  the  late  John  Johnson,  and" after 
his  death  his  mother  was  remarried.  lief  ore  his  de- 
parture with  Company  H  for  Camp  Logan,  young  John- 
son was  engaged  in  labor  in  Shelby  ville.  He  enlisted 
May  25,  1917,  the  day  before  the  company  was  called 
to  Mattopn  for  service  in  the  cyclone  area,  and  later 
accompanied  it  to  the  southern  training  camp,  only  to 
suffer  the  development  of  the  disease  that  eventually 
caused  his  death.  He  received  his  discharge  on  Jan- 
uary 18,  1918,  and  returned  to  his  home  in  Shelbyville. 

Johnson  is  survived  by  his  mother,  three  brothers, 
Clarence  O.,  Jesse  W.,  and  Roy  Johnson,  a  sister,  Mrs. 
Sam  Rice,  and  one  half  sister,  Miss  Edith  Stanley.  Roy 
Tohnson  was  with  the  Engineer  Truck  Co.  457,  A.  E.  F., 
A.  P.  O.  705,  France.  The  burial  of  the  young  sol- 
dier took  place  in  Mound  cemetery,  Cowden. 


Liberty,  equality — bad  principles!  The  only  true 
principle  for  humanity  is  justice,  and  justice  towards 
the  feeble  becomes  necessarily  protection  or  kindness. 

— Amiel. 


Truth  will  never  be  tedious  unto  him  that  t ravel leth 
in  the  secrets  of  nature ;  there  is  nothing  but  falsehood 
that  glutteth  us. 

— Thomas    Lodge. 


GEORGE  KITCHEN  KIRKER 

Death  came  to  George  Hitchen  Kirker  unprosaically 
in  the  ward  of  a  western  hospital.  This  young  soldier 
was  denied  the  glory  of  a  death  among  the  stirring 
scenes  of  battle,  which  unquestionably  he  would  have 
chosen  had  he  had  his  will.  But  his  death,  caused  no 
less  truly  by  his  devotion  to  his  country  and  to  man- 
kind than  as  though  he  met  it  on  the  battle  field  or  in 
the  trench,  was  in  reality  none  the  less  glorious  by 
reason  of  its  coming  in  the  hospital.  lie  was  a  victim 
of  tuberculosis,  which  followed  a  siege  of  pleura!  pneu- 
monia, with  which  he  was  stricken  soon  after  entering 
the  training  camp  at  Camp  Hancock,  Ga.,  early  in  1918. 
After  being  treated  in  a  hospital  there  for  some  time, 
he  went  to  Nevada,  where  he  expired  in  the  convales- 
cent hospital  at  Montella  on  November  24,  1918.  His 
body  was  returned  to  his  home  at  Moweaqua,  where  it 
was  buried  December  2,  with  services  conducted  by  the 
Rev.  Frank  Campbell,  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
church. 

Kirker  was  born  at  Maroa,  III.,  June  21,  1884,  and  at 
the  time  of  his  death  was  34  years,  five  months  and 
three  days  old.  He  was  a  son  of  John  H.  and  Flor- 
ence M.  Kirker,  now  residents  of  Moweaqua,  Shelby 
county.  Employed  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  he  enlisted 
there  in  January,  1918,  as  a  motor  mechanic,  and  was 
sent  to  Camp  Hancock.  He  was  there  but  a  few  days 
when  he  was  taken  ill,  and  the  development  of  the  dis- 
ease which  eventually  mastered  him  blasted  his  hopes 
of  meeting  the  enemv  face  to  face  on  an  European  bat- 
tle field. 

Mr.  Kirker  received  his  honorable  discharge  at  Camp 
Hancock,  Ga.,  June  28,  1918,  and  later  went  to  the  hos- 
pital where  he  died. 

Love  of  country  is  one  of  the  loftiest  virtues  which 
the  Almighty  has  planted  in  the  human  heart,  and  so 
treason  against  it  has  been  considered  among  the  most 
damning  sins. 

• — Emery  A.  Starrs. 


PAUL  KREIG 

Paul  Kreig  died  October  8,  1918,  at  Norfolk,  Va., 
where  he  was  attached  to  the  U.  S.  N.  Hospital  Corps, 
in  which  he  enlisted  March  28,  1918.  His  death  was 
due  to  bronchial  pneumonia,  and  was  the  third  of  Shelby 
county  men  reported  within  twelve  hours'  time. 

Krieg  was  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Krieg  of 
Stewardson,  Shelby  county,  and  was  23  years  of  age  at 
the  time  of  his  death.  Following  his  enlistment  for 
service  with  the  hospital  corps  he  was  sent  to  Nor- 
folk, and  performed  the  duties  of  an  apprentice  with 
such  devotion  and  care  that  he  won  the  esteem  of  the 
patients  and  of  the  officers  in  command.  One  of  the 
latter  wrote  the  young  man's  parents  after  his  death, 
speaking  in  high  praise  of  his  work  and  of  his  cheerful 
obedience  to  military  discipline. 

Mr.  Krieg  is  survived  by  his  parents  and  three  sis- 
ters. The  latter  are  Mrs.  Clarence  Terry  of  Strasburg 
and  the  Misses  Lucile  and  Inez  Krieg  at  home.  His 
body  was  brought  to  Stewardson  for  burial,  and  funeral 
services,  attended  by  a  great  concourse  of  sorrowing 
citizens,  were  held  there. 


Courage  that  grows  from  constitution  very  often  for- 
sakes a  man  when  he  has  occasion  for  it,  and,  when  it 
is  only  a  kind  of  instinct  in  the  soul,  breaks  out  on  all 
occasions,  without  judgment  or  discretion.  That  cour- 
age which  proceeds  from  the  sense  of  our  duty  and  from 
the  fear  of  offending  Him  that  made  us,  acts  always  in 
a  uniform  manner,  and  according  to  the  dictates  of  right 
reason.  _  - — Addison. 

A  brave  man  inspires  others  to  heroism,  but  his  own 
courage  is  not  diminished  when  it  enters  into  other 
souls;  it  is  stimulated  and  invigorated. 

— Washington     Gladden. 


What    I    do   not   wish   men    to   do   to   me,    I    also   wish 
not  to  do  to  them. 

— Confucius. 


HENRY  C.  LADING 

A  marble  monument  stands  in  St.  Paul's  cemetery  in 
the  village  of  Strashurg,  bearing  an  inscription  that 
tells  the  silent  but  eloquent  story  of  the  heroic  death 
of  Henry  C.  Lading,  one  of  the  first  two  men  of  Shelby 
county  to  meet  a  violent  death  in  the  war.  Lading  was 
a  victim  of  the  Hun's  campaign  of  unrestricted  subma- 
rine frlghtfulness,  and  with  Jesse  Mars,  another  Shelby 
county  man,  lost  his  life  in  the  torpedoing  of  the  trans- 
port Moldavia,  as  he  was  crossing  to  France  with  Com- 
pany B,  58th  Infantry,  Fourth  I )i vision. 

Lading,  who  was  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas 
Lading  of  Strasburg,  and  born  September  24,  1892,  was 
called  to  the  colors  with  the  country's  second  contingent, 
leaving  Shelbyville  with  63  other  men  on  the  18th  of 
September,  1917.  His  first  destination  was  Camp  Tay- 
lor, but  he  was  soon  transferred  to  Camp  Pike,  Ark., 
then  to  a  camp  in  North  Carolina  and  thence  overseas, 
lie  and  his  company  landed  in  England  and  were  in  the 
great  parade  of  American  soldiers  reviewed  by  King 
George.  As  the  transport  bore  them  toward  France, 
it  was  struck  by  a  torpedo  and  sank,  May  26,  1918. 
Fifty-three  men  of  Company  B  were  killed  and  drowned. 
It  is  believed  by  soldiers  who  knew  the  location  of  the 
men's  quarters  and  the  point  of  contact  of  the  torpedo, 
that  Lading  must  have  been  killed  instantly  by  the  ex- 
plosion. Many  of  the  men  escaped  instant  death,  only 
to  drown  in  the  icy  waters. 

The  report  of  Lading's  death  was  first  received  in 
Shelbyville  through  a  press  report,  and  the  bulletin 
was  posted  while  a  crowd  of  thousands,  assembled  to 
attend  a  Red  Cross  demonstration,  thronged  the  streets. 
There  were  tears  in  many  eyes  as  the  message  was  read, 
telling  the  story  of  the  county's  first  sacrifice  of  blood 
in  the  great  war  for  universal  liberty. 

Subsequently  a  memorial  service  was  held  in  Strasburg, 
at  which  the  dead  hero's  virtues  were  extolled.  Later  a 
monument  to  his  memory  was  erected  in  the  cemetery  of 
the  church  of  which  he  was  a  member,  but  in  his  heroic 
sacrifice  is  found  an  even  more  enduring  memorial. 


El.ZA  L.  LEE 

Private  Elza  L.  Lee  of  Fiiidlay  died  of  disease  in 
France,  September  29^  1918,  while  he  was  serving  as  an 
infantryman  with  the  American  Expeditionary  Force  in 
an  effort  to  free  the  world  from  autocratic  oppression. 
His  death  was  due  to  influenza  and  pneumonia,  which 
he  contracted  aboard  ship  enroute  to  Europe  with  his 
company,  the  154th  U.  S.  Inf.,  39th  division.  Immedi- 
ately upon  the  arrival  of  the  transport  he  was  sent  to 
the  base  hospital,  and  following  his  death  his  body  was 
buried  in  the  American  lot,  grave  Xo.  22,  of  the  Mehun- 
Sur-  Nevre  cemetery. 

Lee  was  a  son  of  B,  F.  and  Louvica  Lee  of  Findlay, 
111.,  and  was  born  in  Shelby  county  September  16,  1892. 
He  was  a  farmer,  and  before  his  induction  into  army 
service  was  employed  on  a  farm  near  Bethany.  He  en- 
listed June  28,  1918,  at  Shelbyville,  and  with  nearly 
200  other  men  of  this  county  was  sent  to  Camp  Taylor, 
Ky.  He  was  in  that  training  camp  only  a  month  before 
being  transferred  east  and  shipped  overseas  from  New- 
port News. 

Following  the  young  soldier's  death  his  major,  H.  C. 
Hodges,  wrote  his  parents  a  letter,  in  which  he  said : 
"He  met  his  end  in  the  service  of  our  country,  and  with 
as  much  bravery  and  fortitude  as  if  he  were  in  the  act- 
ual presence  of  the  foe." 

Private  Lee  is  survived  by  his  parents,  well  known 
residents  of  Findlay,  four  brothers  and  five  sisters. 
The  brothers  are  William  H.  Lee,  Edward  Lee  and 
Frank  Lee  of  Findlay,  and  Charles  Lee  of  Canada.  The 
sisters  are  Mrs.  Lay  Sills  and  Mrs.  Dora  Cadle  of  Pax- 
ton,  111.,  Mrs.  Maude  Carlyle,  Mrs.  Grace  Nixon  and 
Mrs.  Bessie  Wamick  of  Findlay. 

Justice  commands  us  to  have  mercy  upon  all  men,  to 
consult  the  interests  of  the  whole  human  race,  to  give 
every  one  his  due,  and  to  injure  no  sacred,  public  or 
foreign  rights,  and  to  forbear  touching  what  does  not 
belong  to  us. 

— Cicero. 


WILLIS  LUCAS 

Willis  Lucas  was  a  Kentuckian,  who  by  reason  of  his 
employment  in  Shelby  county,  was  registered  here  and 
was  inducted  by  the  local  board.  1 1  is  term  of  service 
began  September  18,  1917,  when  he  was  called  with  the 
county's  second  contingent,  and  on  the  following  day 
was  sent  to  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.  On  the  16th  of  No- 
vember following  he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Pike, 
Ark.,  with  Company  G,  346th  Inf.  He  was  again  trans- 
ferred, April  14,  at  Camp  Greene,  N.  C.,  to  Company 
A,  58th  Inf.,  Fourth  Division,  and  sailed  May  7  on  the 
ill-fated  Moldavia.  He  escaped  death  when  that  steamer 
was  torpedoed  on  the  26th  of  May,  and  Henry  C.  Lading 
and  Jesse  Mars  of  this  county  lost  their  lives,  but  was 
destined  to  lose  his  life  on  the  battle  field  some  months 
later.  He  went  into  action  July  18,  and  was  wounded 
by  shrapnel  on  the  following  day  at  Chateau  Thierry. 
After  his  recovery  from  the  effects  of  the  wound  he  was 
returned  to  his  outfit,  and  was  assigned  to  the  10th  Ma- 
chine Gun  Battalion,  taking  part  in  the  St.  Mihiel  drive. 
About  October  4  Lucas  was  seen  by  George  Furr,  an- 
other Shelby  county  boy,  as  he  was  moving  up  to  the 
front.  A  couple  of  days  later,  while  in  the  Argonne, 
he  was  killed  by  a  rifle  bullet.  Notice  of  his  death  was 
officially  forwarded  to  the  young  man's  mother  in  Ken- 
tucky, and  transmitted  by  her  to  a  sister  in  Ash  Grove 
township.  A  brother  of  the  dead  soldier,  Renzo  Lucas, 
resides  near  Windsor. 

The  young  man's  home  was  at  Mook,  Ky. 


Justice  is  immortal,  eternal  and  immutable,  like  God 
Himself ;  and  the  development  of  law  is  only  then  a 
progress  when  it  is  directed  towards  those  principles 
which,  like  Him,  are  eternal  ;  and  whenever  prejudice 
or  error  succeeds  in  establishing  in  customary  law  any 
doctrine  contrary  to  eternal  justice. 

— Kossuth 


JESSE  MARS 

Jesse  Guy  Mars,  who  with  Henry  C.  Lading  of  Stras- 
burg  lost  his  life  when  the  transport  Moldavia  was  tor- 
pedoed in  pursuance  with  the  Germans'  campaign  of 
ruthlessness,  was  a  son  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Mars,  who 
lives  a  few  miles  south  of  Shelby ville,  and  left  Slu-lhy- 
ville  with  the  third  contingent  of  fighting  men  on  Oc- 
tober 3,  1917.  He  went  first  to  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.,  then 
to  Camp  Pike,  Ark.,  later  to  Camp  Greene,  N.  C.,  and 
in  May  sailed  for  Europe,  only  to  make  the  supreme 
sacrifice  before  he  set  foot  on  the  soil  of  battle- torn 
France. 

Mars  was  thirty  years,  two  months  and  twenty -eight 
days  old  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  born  of  the 
union  of  Solomon  and  Elizabeth  Mars.  His  father  is 
dead.  His  mother  and  two  brothers,  Elmer  and  William 
Mars,  survive  him. 

On  the  9th  of  June,  1918,  a  service  in  memory  of 
Jesse  Mars  was  held  at  Mt.  Zion  church,  near  his 
home,  and  was  attended  by  a  large  concurse  of  people, 
who  assembled  to  pay  tribute  to  the  sacrifice  the  young 
man  had  made  for  mankind.  The  room  was  decorated 
by  the  American  flag  and  roses,  and  on  the  pulpit  stood 
a  photograph,  enlarged  from  a  snapshot  and  framed. 
As  one  feature  of  the  service  this  picture  was  presented 
to  the  sorrow- stricken  mother,  the  presentation  being 
made  by  J.  E.  Gallagher  in  behalf  of  the  Sunday  school 
which  Mr".  Mars  had  attended.  A  gold  star  appeared  in 
the  service  flag,  which  bore  stars  for  26  young  men 
of  the  community  who  had  gone  out  to  serve  their  coun- 
try on  land  and  sea. 

Attorney  F.  R.  Dove,  a  member  of  the  exemption 
board  which  inducted  Mars,  was  chairman  of  the  meet- 
ing, the  Shelby  ville  Woman's  Glee  Club  furnished  the 
music,  and  the  Rev.  M.  G.  Coleman  pronounced  a  glow- 
ing eulogy  of  the  dead  hero,  and  to  all  others  who  were 
engaged  in  the  battle  for  humanity  and  righteousness. 


TRUMAN  G.  L.  MARS 

Truman  G.  L.  Mars,  a  first  cousin  of  Jesse  Mars,  who 
was  one  of  the  victims  in  the  torpedoing  of  the  Moldavia, 
was  killed  September  27,  1918,  when  he  was  shot  through 
the  stomach  by  a  machine  gun  bullet  as  he  was  taking 
part  in  the  charge  on  Charpentry.  For  three  months 
after  first  getting  into  active  service  the  latter  part  of 
June,  having  landed  in  May,  young  Mars  was  constantly 
under  fire  in  Alsace  Lorraine,  then  was  in  reserve  in  the 
St.  Mihiel  drive.  He  suffered  all  the  hardships  of  actual 
warfare — wet,  cold,  hunger,  sleeplessness,  and  eventually 
death.  His  face  was  to  the  foe  and  he  was  advancing 
when  the  end  came.  He  died  instantly.  A  comrade 
writes  the  sorrowing  relatives  that  "Mars  was  a  game 
soldier,  as  game  as  any  I  ever  saw." 

Truman  Mars  was  a  son  of  Simon  and  Janice  Mars 
of  Clarksburg.  His  mother  is  dead.  For  two  or  three 
years  before  entering  military  service  the  young  man 
was  employed  as  an  auto  mechanic  at  Mott,  N.  D.,  and 
was  registered  and  inducted  there.  His  induction  oc- 
curred March  30,  1918,  and  he  was  in  camp  only  three 
weeks  before  sailing  from  an  eastern  seaport.  He  landed 
in  Liverpool  May  15,  and  served  as  a  member  of  Com- 
pany F,  139th  Inf.,  35th  Division.  He  was  a  native  of 
Clarksburg,  this  county,  where  he  was  born  June  22, 
1891.  His  first  day  in  the  trenches  was  on  his  27th 
birthday. 

Besides  his  father,  Mars  was  survived  by  four  sisters, 
two  brothers,  a  half  sister  and  half  brother.  The  sis- 
ters are  Mrs.  Will  Whitesel  and  Mrs.  Clay  Cook,  both 
of  Kentley,  N.  D.,  Mrs.  Eva  Fishel  of  Clarksburg  and 
Mrs.  Lista  Dihel  of  Colo,  Iowa.  The  half  sister  is 
Mrs.  Lucy  Pierce  of  St.  Louis.  The  brothers  are  Fran- 
cis Mars  of  Clarksburg  township  and  Menzo  Mars  of 
Clarksburg.  The  half  brother  is  William  Mars  of  Ar- 
kansas. 


ALVA  HECKLING 

Alva  Mechling,  a  son  of  Mrs.  Laura  Stockdale.  died  at 
Camp  Lewis,  Wash.,  Saturday,  September  21,  1918, 
after  only  a  few  hours'  illness  from  influenza.  The  body 
was  brought  to  Shelby ville  for  burial,  arriving  on  Sat- 
urday, September  28.  The  funeral,  military  in  its  aspect 
and  with  soldiers  in  uniform  and  the  Shelby  ville  Com- 
mercial Club  forming  a  guard  of  honor,  was  held  at 
the  graveside  in  Glen  wood  cemetery  the  following  day. 
Uniformed  soldiers  acted  as  casket-bearers,  the  Stars 
and  Stripes  were  hoisted  at  half-mast  near  the  grave, 
and  taps  were  sounded.  The  casket  was  draped  with 
"Old  Glory,"  for  the  honor  of  which  the  young  man 
gave  his  life,  and  small  flags  were  used  in  the  lining  of 
the  grave.  This  was  the  first  service  held  here  for 
Shelby's  new  soldier  dead. 

Mechling  was  born  in  Illinois,  April  28,  1897,  the  son 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tunice  Mechling.  His  father  died 
when  he  was  a  lad  of  two  years,  and  later  his  mother 
was  married  to  John  Stockdale,  and  resides  near  Shelby- 
ville.  At  the  time  of  his  induction  into  military  ser- 
vice, August  31,  1918,  young  Mechling  was  a  resident 
of  South  Dakota,  where  he  was  employed.  He  was  as- 
signed to  the  7th  Company,  2d  Batt.,  166th  Depot 
Brigade,  and  sent  to  Camp  Lewis,  where  he  was  in 
training  until  stricken  with  the  illness  which  terminated 
so  quickly  and  fatally.  Only  a  few  days  after  his  en- 
listment he  was  given  the  rank  of  corporal,  a  testimo- 
nial to  the  fact  that  he  was  made  of  soldier  timber. 
He  came  of  soldier  stock,  being  a  grandson  of  L.  I). 
Mechling  of  Shelby  ville,  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  war. 
He  was  a  young  man  of  splendid  character,  industrious 
and  energetic,  and  entered  upon  his  military  duties  with 
the  same  vigor  that  characterized  his  civil  activities. 

Mechling  is  survived  by  his  mother,  one  brother  and 
three  half  sisters.  The  brother  is  Harry  Mechling  of 
Shelbyville,  and  the  half  sisters  are  Mrs.  Grace  Winters 
of  Springfield  and  the  Misses  May  and  Fay  Stockdale 
of  Rose  township. 


GEORGE  E.  MOORE 

Corporal  George  Kilsworth  Moore  of  Tower  Hill  was 
killed  in  action  in  the  Argonne,  September  5,  1918.  The 
shell  which  caused  his  death  also  killed  his  captain  and 
a  major.  That  lie  met  his  death  in  this  manner  was 
not  at  first  credited  by  his  relatives  in  this  country,  as 
shortly  before  that  time  they  had  received  word  from 
him  to  the  effect  that  he  was  in  the  mail  service  in 
France,  and  because  of  this  they  had  felt  some  confi- 
dence in  his  safety.  He  had  been  transferred,  however, 
and  was  in  the  thick  of  the  fighting. 

Moore  was  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  E.  M9ore,  and 
was  born  in  Shelbyville,  January  17,  1892.  Five  years 
ago  he  entered  the  railway  mail  service,  passing  the 
civil  test  at  the  head  of  a  long  list  of  applicants.  He 
was  given  a  fast  mail  run  on  the  Chicago  &  Eastern 
Illinois  railroad  between  Chicago  and  St.  Louis.  He 
held  that  run  for  three  years. 

Corporal  Moore  was  inducted  by  the  Shelby  county 
exemption  board  on  the  30th  of  April,  1918,  and  left 
Shelbyville  as  leader  of  a  squad  in  a  contingent  of  men 
entrained  on  that  day  for  Camp  Dix,  N.  J.  After  only 
a  month's  training  there  he  was  sent  overseas,  arriving 
in  France  June  9.  Because  of  his  experience  as  a  mail 
clerk,  he  was  given  duties  in  that  line,  and  according  to 
the  statement  of  his  superior  officers  and  in  keeping  with 
his  well  known  reputation,  he  performed  all  his  tasks 
with  fidelity  and  efficiency.  His  death  was  a  severe 
blow  to  his  family  and  myriads  of  friends.  A  memorial 
service  was  held  for  him  at  Pana  in  the  spring  of  1919, 
with  exercises  appropriate  to  the  occasion  and  attesting 
the  popularity  of  the  young  hero. 

Moore  is  survived  by  his  parents,  two  brothers  and 
one  sister.  The  brothers  are  Frank  Moore,  who  also 
was  in  service  and  was  at  Laredo,  Texas,  when  his 
brother  was  killed,  and  Floyd  Moore,  a  Shelby  county 
school  teacher.  The  sister  is  Miss  Hazel  Moore,  who 
holds  a  responsible  position  with  the  express  com- 
pany at  Springfield. 


AARON  E.  MORRIS 

Private  Aaron  E.  Morris  was  born  in  Bethany,  Moul- 
trie  county,  Illinois,  and  while  he  enlisted  at  Decatur  and 
was  sent  to  a  training  camp  from  that  city,  his  home 
was  at  Westervelt,  Shelby  county.  He  was  born  De- 
cember 20,  1889. 

Morris  enlisted  August  5,  1918,  at  the  age  of  18 
years.  He  entered  the  service  as  a  truck  driver,  and 
was  assigned  to  Truck  Co.  539,  Motor  Supply  Train 
No.  427,  A.  P.  O.  723,  at  Camp  Johnston,  Florida. 
After  sixty  days'  training  there  he  was  transferred  to 
overseas  service  and  sailed  from  New  York  City.  He 
was  taken  ill  on  the  voyage,  and  was  sick  four  days  be- 
fore he  landed  at  Brest.  His  arrival  there  was  011  the 
14th  of  October,  and  he  was  placed  in  a  hospital,  where 
he  was  given  every  possible  treatment  in  an  effort  to 
check  the  bronchial  pneumonia  with  which  he  was  suf- 
fering. Remedies  were  unavailing,  however,  and  on  the 
24th  of  October  he  passed  away.  He  was  buried  in  the 
American  cemetery  at  Tambezella,  Finisterre,  France. 


Above  all  other  things  is  justice ;  success  is  a  good 
thing;  wealth  is  good  also;  honor  is  better;  but  justice 
excels  them  all.  — David  Dudley  Field. 


To  have  the  power  of  forgetting,  for  the  time,  self, 
friends,  interests,  relationship ;  and  to  think  of  doing 
right  toward  another,  a  stranger,  an  enemy,  perhaps,  is 
to  have  that  which  man  can  share  only  with  the  angels, 
and  with  Him  who  is  above  men  and  angels. 

— David  Dudley   Field. 


But  when  you  view  everything  with  reason  and  re- 
flection, of  all  connections  none  is  more  weighty,  none  is 
more  dear,  than  that  between  every  individual  and  his 
country.  Our  parents  are  dear  to  us;  our  children,  our 
kinsmen,  our  friends  are  dear  to  us ;  but  our  country 
comprehends  alone  all  the  endearments  of  us  all. 

— Cicero. 


FRED  W.  NIPPE 

Shortly  after  receiving  a  card  which  told  of  the  "safe 
arrival"  of  their  son  overseas,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  Xippe 
of  Strasburg  were  notified  officially  that  their  hoy,  Fred 
W.  Xippe,  was  dead  and  that  his  body  was  at  an  eastern 
port  of  embarkation,  awaiting  their  orders.  It  was  an- 
nounced that  Xippe  died  on  the  high  seas  after  leaving 
an  American  port,  and  that  his  body  was  returned  to 
land.  Apparently  the  card  telling  of  his  arrival  in 
France  was  released  for  mailing,  with  many  others,  as 
soon  as  the  transport  reached  the  foreign  port,  and 
before  those  in  whose  hands  the  cards  had  been  left 
learned  of  his  death. 

In  accordance  with  the  wishes  of  his  parents,  the 
body  of  the  young  man  was  dispatched  immediately  to 
Strasburg  under  escort  of  Private  Curtis  Gordon  of 
Camp  Merritt.  Upon  its  arrival  there  flags  were  sus- 
pended at  half  mast,  and  the  whole  village  turned  out 
to  the  simple  but  impressive  service  that  was  •  held  at 
once  in  St.  Paul's  cemetery. 

Fred  W.  Xippe  was  born  at  Strasburg  January  21, 
1894,  the  son  of  Fred  J.  and  Mary  A.  X'ippe.  He  grew 
to  manhood  on  his  father's  farm,  where  he  was  em- 
ployed at  the  time  of  his  enlistment,  June  24,  1918. 
He  entered  the  service  at  Lincoln,  111.,  and  was  in  train- 
ing with  Company  E,  121st  Inf.,  four  months  at  Camp 
Wheeler,  Va.,  and  Camp  Mills,  L.  I.  He  sailed  for 
France  October  2,  1918,  eager  to  face  the  foe  and  strike 
his  blow  for  the  freedom  of  the  world.  He  was  doomed 
to  disappointment,  however,  for  his  voyage  ended  quickly 
in  his  death,  as  stated  above.  His  death  occurred  Oc- 
tober 12,  and  was  due  to  bronchial  pneumonia. 

Xippe  is  survived  by  his  parents  and  one  brother, 
whom  he  had  bade  farewell  with  the  words :  "I  am 
ready  and  willing  to  answer  my  country's  call,  so  I 
must  be  up  and  away.  Later  in  his  letters  he  expressed 
himself :  "If  we  have  no  occasion  to  meet  again  on 
earth,  let  us^ray  for  a  happier  and  more  glorious  meet- 
ing in  the  heavenly  home  above."  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Lutheran  church,  and  an  exemplary  Christian. 


OSCAR  P.  ORBERG 

Oscar  P.  Orberg,  a  son  of  Peter  Orberg  of  Shelbyville, 
died  of  disease  in  France  on  the  24th  of  August,  1918, 
his  death  being  due  to  pneumonia,  according  to  the  offi- 
cial statement  of  the  military  authorities. 

Orberg  was  born  in  Chicago,  May  30,  1893,  and  after 
the  removal  of  his  father  to  Shelbyville  the  young  man 
made  his  home  in  that  city.  In  1917  he  was  employed 
as  a  shoe  salesman  in  Flint,  Mich.,  and  on  the  4th  of 
June  went  to  Detroit  and  enlisted  in  the  ordnance  di- 
vision of  the  army.  On  December  6  of  that  year  he 
was  summoned  for  service,  and  was  sent  to  Columbus, 
Ohio,  where  he  was  assigned  to  the  Depot  Brigade. 
Later  he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Dodge,  la.,  and  from 
that  point  to  Camp  Merritt,  XT.  J.  After  three  months 
of  training  he  sailed  from  Hoboken,  March  15,  1918, 
and  landed  at  Hordeaux  April  3. 

The  last  letter  received  from  Orberg  by  his  relatives 
bore  date  of  August  8,  and  at  that  time  he  stated  that 
he  was  in  the  best  of  health.  The  later  message  an- 
nouncing his  death  was  therefore  a  distinct  shock  to 
them,  as  they  had  no  intimation  that  he  was  ill.  At  the 
time  of  his  last  writing  the  young  man  was  still  at 
the  supply  base  in  France,  but  stated  he  expected  soon 
to  be  sent  nearer  the  front. 

Mr.  Orberg  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal church  in  Shelbyville,  and  of  its  choir  and  Sunday 
school.  He  had  a  wide  circle  of  friends.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  father,  his  stepmother,  two  sisters  and  one 
brother.  The  sisters  are  Miss  Lillian  Orberg  and  Mrs. 
Esther  Holland  of  Chicago,  and  the  brother  is  Russell 
Orberg,  who  also  served  in  the  United  States  army  in 
France. 

A  memorial  service  for  the  dead  soldier  was  held  in 
the  Methodist  church  of  Shelbyville,  and  a  gold  star  in 
his  memory  was  placed  on  the  service  flag  of  that 
church. 


C.  CLO  OSBORN 

Corson  Clo  Osborn,  Shelby  county's  first  selective 
service  man  to  die  in  training  camp,  passed  away  at 
Camp  Taylor,  Ky.,  Tuesday,  December  11,  1917,  where 
for  several  days  he  was  ill  with  spinal  meningitis,  fol- 
lowing an  attack  of  measles  and  mumps.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  county's  second  contingent  of  service 
men,  and  was  sent  to  Camp  Taylor  with  63  other  men 
on  the  1 9th  day  of  September,  1917.  There  he 
was  assigned  to  Battery  D  of  the  327th  Field  Artillery, 
and  was  in  training  with  that  outfit  until  stricken  with 
the  illness  which  proved  fatal.  His  body  was  returned 
to  Tower  Hill,  arriving  there  on  Friday,  December  14, 
and  in  the  afternoon  of  that  day  was  laid  away  in  the 
Eiler  cemetery,  two  miles  south  of  that  village. 

Mr.  Osborn  was  a  son  of  William  and  Lucy  Osborn, 
and  was  born  in  Shelby  county,  September  26,  1891.  He 
was  born  and  reared  on  the  farm,  and  followed  agricul- 
tural pursuits  until  called  to  the  direct  service  of  his 
country.  Besides  his  parents,  Osborn  is  survived  by 
one  sister,  Mrs.  Flora  Lee  of  Delavan,  111. 

Mr.  Osborn,  father  of  the  dead  soldier,  received  a  let- 
ter from  Frank  W.  Bryant,  captain  of  the  company  in 
which  his  son  was  in  service,  in  which  the  following 
comforting  statement  was  made : 

"It  had  not  been  my  privilege  even  to  have  met  Pri- 
vate Osborn  since  I  arrived  at  this  post,  as  he  was  in 
the  hospital.  But  I  have  made  careful  inquiry  into  the 
matter,  and  want  to  assure  you  that  he  had  the  best  of 
medical  care  and  nursing  attention.  His  fellow  soldiers 
feel  this  deeply,  and  desire  to  state  that  his  unfortunate 
death  is  a  source  of  genuine  sorrow  to  all." 


Courage,  considered  in  itself  or  without  reference  to 
its  causes,  is  no  virtue,  and  deserves  no  esteem.  It  is 
found  in  the  best  and  the  worst,  and  is  to  be  judged 
according  to  the  qualities  from  which  it  springs  and 
with  which  it  is  conjoined. 

— William   Ellery    Channing. 


ORLANDO  F.  PATIENT 

Orlando  F.  Patient  spilled  his  life's  blood  on  foreign 
soil  in  conflict  with  the  German  horde  that  his  country 
and  the  whole  world  might  be  safe  from  Prussianism. 
He  was  killed  in  a  trench  on  the  Champagne  front,  Oc- 
tober 3,  1918,  about  ten  miles  north  of  Suppes,  France. 
He  was  in  action  with  Company  G,  346  Inf.,  with  which' 
he  had  been  sent  overseas. 

Patient  was  one  of  the  first  men  of  the  county  to  be 
called,  and  left  Shelbyville  for  Camp  Taylor  on  the  19th 
of  September,  1917.  After  training  at  Camp  Taylor  for 
a  while,  he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Pike,  Ark.,  where 
he  completed  his  training  in  a  home  camp  and  then  was 
transferrd  to  the  east.  He  sailed  July  5,  1918,  and  ten 
days  later  set  foot  on  French  soil.  He  was  soon  in  ac- 
tion, but  twice  was  laid  up  in  the  hospital,  once  by  an 
automobile  accident  and  the  second  time  from  exposure 
in  the  trenches.  Recovering,  he  returned  to  the  front 
line,  only  to  meet  death  at  the  hands  of  the  foe  on  Oc- 
tober 3,  at  the  age  of  twenty-four  years. 

Patient  was  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Patient, 
who  live  north  of  Findlay,  in  Shelby  county,  and  was 
born  in  1894.  He  spent  almost  his  entire  life  in  the  vi- 
cinity of  Findlay,  and  was  well  and  favorably  known. 
He  was  engaged  in  farming  near  Prairie  Home  when 
he  was  called  to  the  colors.  After  his  arrival  in  France 
his  parents  received  a  letter  from  him,  but  for  some 
little  time  before  they  received  the  notice  of  his  death, 
no  word  had  come  from  him. 

Mr.  Patient  is  survived  by  his  parents,  one  brother, 
Harry  Patient  of  Bethany,  and  three  sisters.  The  latter 
are  Mrs.  James  Whitacre  of  Gays,  111.,  Mrs.  Earl  Will- 
iams of  Montana  and  Miss  Gertrude  Patient,  who  re- 
sides with  her  parents. 


To  bear  other  people's  afflictions,   every  one  has  cour- 
age enough  and  to  spare. 

• — Benjamin    Franklin. 


HENRY  F.  W.  PIEPER 

Henry  Fred  William  Pieper,  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henry  Pieper  of  near  Strasburg,  was  born  March  14, 
1892,  and  died  December  8,  1918,  at  the  age  of  26  years, 
eight  months  and  25  days.  His  death  occurred  at  the 
base  hospital  at  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.,  where  he  was 
stricken  with  illness,  a  week  before  the  end  came.  His 
death  was  due  to  pneumonia. 

Young  Pieper  was  inducted  into  service  by  the  Shelby 
County  Board  on  the  28th  of  June,  1918,  and  dispatched 
to  Camp  Taylor  with  the  county's  largest  contingent, 
185  men.  He  was  transferred  from  Camp  Taylor  to  the 
Remount  Depot,  Auxiliary  319,  Louis  vile,  Ky.,  where 
he  remained  until  the  3d  of  December,  when  he  was 
taken  sick.  He  was  taken  to  the  base  hospital  at  Camp 
Taylor,  dying  there  five  days  later.  He  was  survived  by 
his  parents,  four  brothers  and  four  sisters.  One  brother, 
Martin  Pieper,  died  of  influenza  in  March,  1919.  The 
surviving  brothers  arc  William,  Walter  and  Edwin  Pie- 
per, and  the  sisters  are  Mrs.  Fred  Beitz,  Jr.,  and  Mrs. 
William  J.  Mueller,  both  of  Stewardson,  111.,  and  Hulda 
and  Lena  at  home.  The  young  man's  parents  were  with 
him  when  he  died,  and  they  made  arrangements  for  the 
transfer  of  the  body  to  their  home,  where  it  arrived  on 
Tuesday,  December  10.  The  funeral  was  held  December 
12  from  St.  Paul's  church,  conducted  by  Rev.  C.  Keller 
and  Rev.  M.  F.  Buenger,  while  burial  took  place  in  St. 
Paul's  cemetery  at  Strasburg. 

Henry  Pieper  lived  an  exemplary  life.  On  the  27th 
of  March,  1892,  when  an  infant  only  thirteen  days  old, 
he  was  baptized,  and  on  the  8th  of  April,  1906,  he  re- 
newed his  baptismal  covenant  by  confirmation.  He 
held  the  confidence  and  respect  of  all  who  knew  him, 
and  his  untimely  death  was  considered  a  loss  by  the 
entire  community. 


MAXWELL  PUGSLEY 

Maxwell  Pugsley  was  another  of  Shelby  county's 
heroes  who  died  at  the  front,  a  victim  of  the  deadli- 
ness  of  the  Hun  warfare.  He  was  wounded  October  31, 
1918,  in  the  battle  of  Olseme,  Belgium,  receiving  com- 
pound fractures  of  both  legs.  A  day  later,  November  1, 
he  died. 

Pugsley  was  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Pugsley  of 
eastern  Shelby  county.  He  was  born  at  Crossplain, 
Ind.,  February  22,  1888,  and  moved  with  his  parents  to 
a  farm  in  Shelby  county,  near  Xeoga,  in  February,  1903. 
He  continued  to  make  his  home  there  until  called  into 
military  service.  He  was  inducted  by  the  local  board 
and  accompanied  other  selective  service  men  to  Camp 
Dix  on  the  2d  of  May,  1918.  After  only  a  few  weeks' 
training  there  he  was  sent  to  Camp  Lee,  Va.,  where 
he  was  assigned  to  Company  B,  148th  U.  S.  Inf.,  37th 
Division.  Early  in  July  he  sailed  for  France,  and  imme- 
diately upon  his  arrival  there  was  dispatched  to  the 
front,  where  he  served  valiantly  and  well  until  he  was 
struck  down  by  the  enemy  shell. 

He  responded  willingly,  fought  bravely,  and  died  that 
others  might  enjoy  the  blessings  of  perfect  freedom. 


Courage  multiplies  the  chances  of  success  by  some- 
times making  opportunities,  and  always  availing  itself 
of  them ;  and  in  this  sense  Fortune  may  be  said  to 
favor  fools  by  those  who,  however  prudent  in  their  opin- 
ion, are  deficient  in  valor  and  enterprise. 

— Coleridge. 


Courage   of   the   soldier   awakes   the   courage   of   woman. 

• — Emerson. 


I  like  to  read  about  Moses  best  in  th'  Old  Testament. 
He  carried  a  hard  business  well  through,  and  died  when 
other  folks  were  going  to  reap  the  fruits ;  a  man  must 
have  courage  to  look  after  his  life  so,  and  think  what'll 
corne  of  it  after  he's  dead  and  gone. 

• — George    Eliot. 


CHARLES  EDWARD  REISS 

Charles  E.  Reiss,  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Adolph  Reiss 
of  Shelbyville  and  for  several  years  a  school  teacher  in 
the  county,  died  October  8,  1918,  in  the  hospital  at 
Camp  Grant,  Rockford,  111.,  where  he  was  ill  of  influenza 
for  only  a  couple  of  days.  The  first  message  of  his  ill- 
ness reached  his  parents  on  the  preceding  Sunday.  His 
father  went  to  him  immediately,  and  on  Monday  wired 
home  that  the  boy  was  distinctly  better.  The  young 
man  took  a  sudden  turn  for  the  worse,  however,  and 
died  almost  at  once. 

Charles  Reiss  was  born  in  Shelbyville  March  18,  1894, 
and  was  the  only  son  of  his  parents.  He  was  graduated 
from  the  Shelbyville  high  school  in  1912,  entered  the 
University  of  Chicago  the  following  year  and  still  later 
took  the  university  correspondence  course  while  teaching 
the  Sandy  Hill  school  in  Rose  township,  where  he  did 
notable  work  in  educational  and  community  betterment 
lines.  During  the  summers  he  attended  the  Eastern 
Illinois  State  Normal  school  at  Charjeston  or  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago.  He  taught  in  Find  lay  a  year,  and 
then  took  another  course  in  the  University  of  Chicago. 
Deciding  to  enter  the  ministry  of  the  Lutheran  church, 
he  matriculated  with  Capitol  University  at  Columbus, 
<  >hio,  but  remained  there  through  only  one  semester. 
For  two  years  before  his  death  he  was  principal  of 
schools  at  Tower  Hill,  where  he  did  fine  work.  While 
in  the  midst  of  work  at  the  Chicago  university  to  win 
his  degree,  he  was  called  for  limited  service,  and  on  the 
4th  of  September  was  sent  to  Camp  Grant,  where  he 
was  soon  to  die,  thus  closing  a  very  promising  career. 

The  body  of  the  young  soldier  was  returned  to  Shelby- 
ville, where  the  funeral  took  place  at  Glenwood  cemetery 
on  Friday,  October  1 1.  He  was  given  military  honors, 
while  hundreds  of  sorrowing  friends  assembled  to  do 
him  honor. 

Mr.  Reiss  was  survived  by  his  parents  and  three  sis- 
ters. Miss  Marie  Reiss  of  Shelbyville,  Mrs.  Hilda  Peck 
of  Chicago  and  Mrs.  L.  C.  Austin  of  Memphis,  Tenn. 


CLIFFORD  A.  RODGERS 

Clifford  A.  Rodgers,  a  son  of  James  Rodgers,  died  of 
influenza  at  Camp  Custer,  Battle  Creek,  Mich.,  Octo- 
ber 16,  1918.  He  had  been  transferred  to  Custer  from 
Fort  Benjamin  Harrison,  after  he  had  gone  to  the  lat- 
ter training  camp  with  a  contingent  of  Shelby  county 
men  on  the  23d  of  June,  1918.  It  was  his  desire  to  see 
overseas  service,  but  his  hopes  were  not  realized.  He 
was  a  member  of  Headquarters  Company,  10th  Inf. 

Rodgers  was  born  May  1,  1896,  in  Franklin  county, 
Kansas,  but  for  two  years  before  his  call  to  military 
service  he  had  lived  and  was  employed  in  and  near 
Tower  Hill.  He  was  a  youth  of  splendid  character, 
and  it  has  been  said  of  him  that  he  made  a  splendid 
soldier,  cheerful,  willing  and  obedient  to  his  officers, 
and  that  through  his  kindly  disposition  and  brotherly 
love  to  all  around  him  he  won  many  warm  friends. 
When  the  influenza  broke  out  in  camp,  he  gave  of  his 
service  to  alleviate  the  distress  of  others,  and  many  a 
comrade  felt  the  effect  of  his  kindly  ministrations. 

The  young  man  is  survived  by  his  father,  four  sis- 
ters and  one  brother,  residents  of  Rantoul,  Kansas. 


As  a  rule,  he  fights  well  who  has  wrongs  to  redress ; 
but  vastly  better  fights  he  who,  with  wrongs  as  a  spur, 
has  also  steadily  before  him  a  glorious  result  in  pros- 
pect— a  result  in  which  he  can  discern  balm  for  wounds, 
compensation  for  valor,  remembrance  and  gratitude  in 
event  of  death. 

—Lew   Wallace. 


Manhood  begins  when  we  have,  in  a  way,  made  truce 
with  necessity  ;  begins,  at  all  events,  when  we  have  sur- 
rendered to  necessity,  as  the  most  part  only  do ;  but 
begins  joyfully  and  hopefully  only  when  we  have  recon- 
ciled ourselves  to  necessity,  and  thus  in  reality  triumphed 
over  it,  and  felt  that  in  necessity  we  are  free. 

— Carlyle. 


ANDREW  E.  RUFF 

Near  Bellicourt  was  the  scene  of  the  death  of  An- 
rew  Edwin  Ruff  of  Strasburg,  who  was  killed  during 
a  battle  on  the  Ilindenburg  line,  September  29,  19.18, 
while  he  was  serving  with  the  American  Expeditionary 
Force.  He  was  a  rifleman  with  Company  K,  1 19th 
Inf.,  30th  Division,  and  landed  in  Liverpool,  Eng.,  May 
27,  1918,  after  a  perilous  voyage  in  which  the  transport 
Laomedia,  on  which  he  sai!ed  from  Boston  May  12,  was 
attacked  by  a  submarine.  Fortunately,  however,  the 
vessel  was  not  torpedoed,  and  she  and  her  human 
freight  escaped  unharmed. 

Ruff,  who  was  a  son  of  Martin  F.  and  Flora  Ruff  of 
Strasburg,  was  born  in  that  place  January  28,  1896. 
He  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm,  and  was  a  tiller  of 
the  soil  when  called  to  the  colors,  February  23,  1918. 
He  was  inducted  by  the  local  board  at  Shelbyville  on 
that  date,  and  was  sent  to  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.,  where 
he  was  assigned  to  18th  Company,  159  Depot  Brigade. 
In  March  he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Sevier,  S.  C., 
where  he  was  placed  in  Company  K  of  the  119th.  After 
two  and  one-half  months  of  training  in  these  camps,  he 
was  sent  to  France.  After  arriving  there  he  completed 
his  training  near  Yeuse,  and  about  July  22  realized  his 
ambition  to  get  into  the  trenches.  For  two  months  he 
served  on  the  Ypres  front  near  Popperinge,  and  was 
actively  participating  in  a  battle  on  the  Hindeiiburg 
drive  when  he  was  killed.  His  particular  work  was  as 
a  rifleman,  and  he  was  an  expert.  Twice  he  was  in 
the  hospital — once  afflicted  with  the  mumps,  and  again 
after  lie  was  gassed  by  the  enemy.  Recovering,  he  re- 
turned to  his  outfit  about  September  20,  and  only  a  few 
days  later  sacrificed  himself  in  the  great  cause  for  which 
he  and  his  comrades  were  fighting. 

Mr.  Ruff  stood  well  in  his  home  community.  In  in- 
fancy he  was  baptized  in  the  Lutheran  faith,  and  later 
took  the  confirmation  vows  and  became  a  member  of 
St.  Paul's  church.  He  was  survived  by  his  parents,  a 
brother,  Carl  Ruff,  and  one  sister.  Miss  Alma  Ruff. 


NOAH   RUSSELL 

Noah  O.  Russell,  a  private  in  Company  B,  130th  I*.  S. 
Inf.,  was  wounded  by  accidental  gunshot  January  1, 
1918,  and  died  from  the  effects  more  than  a  year  later. 
His  death  occurred  in  the  hospital  at  Maywood,  111.,  to 
which  he  returned  from  a  visit  with  relatives  in  Shelby 
county,  following  his  discharge  at  Houston,  Texas,  in 
March,  191..  His  death  occurred  February  2,  1919. 

Russell  was  a  son  of  Xoah  and  Mollie  Russell  of 
Trow  bridge,  Shelby  county.  111.,  and  was  born  near 
Strasburg  March  8,  1892.  Before  his  enlistment,  which 
took  place  at  Maywood,  111.,  September  19,  1917,  he 
was  employed  as  a  mechanic  at  Maywood,  though  be- 
fore that  time  he  had  been  a  farmer.  From  Maywood 
he  was  sent  to  Camp  Grant  and  later  was  transferred 
to  Camp  Logan,  Houston,  Tex.,  where  he  was  assigned 
to  Company  B  of  the  130th.  Following  his  accidental 
shooting  he  was  discharged,  and  spent  nearly  a  month 
at  his  home.  Returning  to  the  hospital  at  Melrose  Park 
to  submit  to  an  operation  for  the  removal  of  the  bullet 
from  his  brain,  he  died  very  sudden tly.  Hope  of  his  ul- 
timate recovery  from  the  effects  of  the  wound  were  en- 
tertained because  of  his  condition  over  quite  a  period  of 
time  between  the  date  of  the  accident  and  his  death,  and 
the  sudden  termination  of  his  life  was  a  surprise  and 
shock  to  his  family  and  friends. 


When    moral    courage    feels    that    it    is    in    the    right, 
there    is   no   personal    daring   of   which   it    is    incapable. 

— Leigh   Hunt. 


To  hope  for  safety  in  flight,  when  you  have  turned 
away  from  the  enemy  the  arms  by  which  the  boiy  is  de- 
fended, is  indeed  madness.  In  battle  those  who  are 
most  afraid  are  always  in  most  danger ;  but  courage  is 
equivalent  to  rampart. 

— Sallust. 


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LEROY  SARVER 

LeRoy  Sarver,  the  second  son  of  Ed  and  Minnie  Sar- 
ver of  Hen  ton,  Shelby  county,  was  over  the  top  four 
times  during  his  active  service  overseas,  was  wounded 
in  his  fourth  battle  and  died  from  the  effects  of  his 
wounds  on  the  20th  of  June,  1918.  This  in  brief  is 
the  record  of  the  valiant  service  and  complete  sacrifice 
which  this  young  soldier  made  for  his  country  and  the 
peoples  of  the  old  world. 

Sarver  enlisted  at  St.  Louis,  June  18,  1917,  for  service 
with  the  marines,  and  was  sent  to  the  marine  barracks  at 
Port  Royal,  S.  C.,  and  later  to  Quantico,  Va.,  from  which 
joint  he  sailed  on  February  1,  1918.  He  landed  at 

rest,  and  was  one  of  the  splendid  fighting  men  who 
wrote  the  name  of  the  United  States  Marines  high  on 
the  roll  of  fame  and  checked  the  enemy  in  his  advance 
on  Paris  and  civilization. 

Following  his  death  from  wounds  received  in  action 
after  three  months  at  the  front,  Sarver's  body  was 
buried  June  20,  in  cemetery  Xo.  241,  grave  No.  90,  at 
La  Ferte,  Department  of  the  Marne  et  Seine.  Those 
who  have  seen  the  place  declare  it  to  be  a  beautiful 
place,  and  after  the  burial  an  American  flag  was  placed 
above  the  resting  place  of  the  young  hero. 

Sarver  was  born  in  Shelby  county,  March  18,  1895, 
and  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm  near  Henton.  He 
developed  a  splendid  character,  and  was  upright  and  in- 
dustrious, a  joy  to  his  parents  and  respected  by  all.  He 
was  survived  by  his  parents,  five  sisters  and  two  broth- 
ers. One  of  the  brothers  is  Charles  E.  Sarver,  also  in 
the  service,  and  the  other  is  Russell  Sarver,  at  home. 
The  sisters  are  Mrs.  Pearl  Small  and  the  Misses  Ollie, 
Alta,  Dorothy  and  Velma  Sarver.  all  of  Henton. 

A  memorial  service  was  held  in  honor  of  the  dead  hero 
on  July  20,  1918,  when  patriotic  music  and  addresses, 
with  an  eulogy  of  the  young  man,  were  features  of  the 
exercises.  

Courage  is,  on  all  hands,  considered  as  an  essential  of 
high  character. 

— Froude. 


WILLIAM  SARVER 

William  Sarver  of  Herrick  was  another  Shelby  county 
overseas  soldier  who  lost  his  life  in  a  foreign  country 
through  disease.  He  died  of  pneumonia,  following  in- 
fluenza, at  Visernay,  France,  about  March,  1919.  He 
was  a  brother  of  John  D.  Sarver,  and  the  two  were  in- 
ducted at  the  same  time  by  the  Shelby  County  Exemp- 
tion Hoard,  and  left  Shelbyyille  together  on  the  30th  of 
April,  1918.  Their  destination  was  Camp  Dix,  Wrights- 
town,  X.  J.  After  a  short  period  of  training  there  they 
were  sent  overseas  with  the  308th  Field  Artillery.  Sar- 
ver was  in  the  battles  of  St.  Mihiel  and  the  Meuse-Ar- 
gonne,  and  acquitted  himself  splendidly.  Some  time 
after  the  signing  of  the  armistice  and  the  cessation  of 
hostilities,  and  while  he  was  awaiting  orders  to  return 
to  his  native  land,  he  was  stricken  with  the  deadly  in- 
fluenza, to  which  he  fell  a  victim. 

Sarver  was  well  known  in  the  southern  part  of  Shelby 
county,  and  was  well  respected. 


When  you  meet  your  antagonist,  do  every  ting  in  a 
mild  and  agreeable  manner.  Let  your  courage  be  as 
keen,  but  at  the  same  time  as  polished,  as  your  sword. 

— Sheridan. 

Our  Country !  In  her  intercourse  with  foreign  na- 
tions may  she  always  be  right ;  but  our  country,  right 
or  wrong. 

— Stephen    Decatur. 

Patriotism  depends  as  much  on  mutual  sufferings  as 
on  mutual  success ;  and  it  is  by  that  experience  of  all 
fortunes  and  all  feelings  that  a  great  national  character 
is  created. 

—Disraeli. 


Courage,   when    it   is   not   heroic   self-sacrifice,   is   some- 
times a  modification  and  sometimes  a  result  of  faith. 

— J.  C.  and  A.  W.  Hare. 


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JOHN  L.  SCHUTTE 

Private  John  L.  Schutte's  career  as  a  soldier  was 
short.  Death  struck  him  down  before  he  left  the  train- 
ing camp,  and  he  failed  of  his  ambition  to  meet  the 
Hun  on  the  battle  field.  The  young  man  got  into  the 
game  early  in  the  conflict  between  the  United  States 
and  the  Central  Powers,  but  it  was  only  for  a  few 
months.  He  was  one  of  the  county's  second  contingent, 
and  was  inducted  at  Shelby ville  on  September  the  19th, 
1917.  On  that  day  he  was  sent  with  others  to  Camp 
Taylor,  Ky.,  where  he  remained  until  February  16,  1918, 
when  he  was  stricken  with  pneumonia  and  died  two  days 
later,  at  the  age  of  27  years.  He  was  a  member  of 
Battery  I),  327th  Field  Artillery.  His  body  was  brought 
to  the  home  of  his  parents  at  Sigel,  where  it  was  buried 
with  military  honors. 

Private  Schutte  was  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  II. 
Schutte,  well  known  residents  of  southeastern  Shelby 
county.  It  was  there  the  dead  soldier  was  born  and 
reared,  and  where  he  won  and  enjoyed  the  respect  and 
esteem  of  all  who  knew  him. 


There  is  no  greater  sign  of  a  general  decay  of  virtue 
in  a  nation  than  a  want  of  zeal  in  its  inhabitants  for 
the  good  of  their  country. 

• — Addison. 


We   join   ourselves  to  no  party   that   does  not  carry   the 
flag  and  keep  step  to  the  music  of  the  Union. 

— Kufus  Choate. 


Our  country,  whether  bounded  by  the  St.  John's  and 
the  Sabine,  or  however  bounded  or  described,  and  be 
the  measurements  more  or  less ;  still  our  country,  to 
be  cherished  in  all  our  hearts,  to  be  defended  by  all 
our  hands. 

— Robert  C.  Winthrop. 


CHARLES  V.  SETTLES 

Unlike  most  of  the  men  of  the  Gold  Star  section,  it 
was  the  privilege  of  Charles  V.  Settles  to  die  in  his 
own  home,  receiving  in  his  last  illness  the  loving  care 
of  his  mother  and  others  dear  to  him.  He  passed  away 
at  his  home  in  Shelby  ville,  September  15,  1918.  His 
death  was  due  to  tuberculosis,  which  he  contracted  sev- 
eral months  before,  and  which  led  to  his  honorable  dis- 
charge from  army  service  on  the  8th  of  the  preceding 
Apri!. 

Settles,  who  was  barn  driver  for  the  Mo  ok  &  Weil 
stables  in  Shelby  ville,  was  inducted  into  service  Feb- 
ruary 22,  .1918,  and  sent  to  Camp  Taylor.  A  little  later 
he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Sevier,  S.  C.,  and  it  was 
while  there  that  he  began  to  decline.  After  his  dis- 
missal from  the  army  he  was  in  such  a  state  of  health 
that  he  was  unable  to  work,  and  continued  to  decline 
until  the  end  came. 

Mr.  Settles  was  born  March  22.  1892,  at  Tola,  111., 
and  became  a  resident  of  Shelby  ville  in  1903.  His 
father  died  when  he  was  but  three  years  old,  and  later 
his  mother  remarried.  She  is  Mrs.  Alice  Ferryman,  now 
resident  of  Decatur,  111.  He  is  survived  also  by  four  sis- 
ters and  three  brothers.  The  sisters  are  Mrs.  Charles 
Harrell  and  Mrs.  A.  T.  Young  of  Taylorville,  Mrs. 
Charles  Winson  of  Shelby  ville  and  Miss  Alice  Perry - 
man,  who  lives  with  her  mother  in  Decatur.  The 
brothers  are  Frank  Settles  of  Shelbyville,  Ed  Settles  of 
Decatur,  and  Charles  Settles,  who  at  the  time  of  his 
brother's  death  was  in  the  canteen  at  Camp  Custer, 
llattle  Creek,  Mich. 

The  funeral  of  the  young  soldier  was  held  from  the 
family  residence  in  Shelby  ville  at  2:30  o'clock  p.  m., 
Tuesday,  September  17.  1918. 


The  patriot  reveals  the  secret  of  his  soul  when  he 
gladly  dies  for  his  country,  and  sacrifices  his  life  upon 
the  altar  of  his  inspiration. 

— Timothy   Titcomb. 


FRANK  SHERLOCK 

Frank  Sherlock,  a  Shelhyville  soldier  who  was  a 
member  of  Company  H,  130th  U.  S.  Infantry  when  that 
outfit  left  Shelhyville  October  9,  1917,  died  January  2, 
1919,  of  bronchial  pneumonia,  and  his  body  rests  in  for- 
eign soil. 

Sherlock,  who  was  a  son  of  the  late  Andrew  W.  and 
Xancy  Sherlock,  and  was  born  in  Shelbyville  April  27, 
1888,  enlisted  with  Company  H  of  the  old  Fourth  regi- 
ment, Illinois  National  Guard.  May  25,  1917.  His  en- 
listment was  on  the  day  preceding  the  big  cyclone 
which  did  so  much  damage  in  Shelby  and  Coles  coun- 
ties, and  his  first  service  as  a  militiaman  was  with  the 
company  in  the  devastated  area  at  Mattoon.  Then  and 
after  the  company  went  into  training  at  Camp  Logan, 
Houston,  Texas,  word  came  back  that  Sherlock  was 
making  a  "fine  soldier."  Similar  reports  came  back 
from  overseas.  A  harnessmaker  by  trade,  Sherlock 
was  transferred  at  Camp  Logan  to  the  Supply  Com- 
pany as  regimental  harnessmaker.  He  was  still  in  that 
department  when  the  regiment  went  overseas,  and  con- 
tinued in  that  capacity,  doing  splendid  work  in  Europe. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  Sherlock  was  survived  by 
his  mother,  who  died  a  little  later  in  grief  over  the 
death  of  her  son.  He  also  left  two  sisters,  who  are 
Mrs.  1<  W.  Casselman  and  Mrs.  .T.  W.  Tackson,  both 
of  Shelhyville,  and  one  brother,  George  Sherlock,  also 
of  Shelbyville. 


It  is  a  brave  act  of  valor  to  contemn  death:  but 
where  life  is  more  terrible  than  death,  it  is  the  truest 
valor  to  dare  to  live. 

— Sir  Thomas   Browne. 


Perfect    valor    is    to    do    without    witnesses    what    one 
would    do   before    all    the    world. 

—  La    Rochefoucauld. 


CHARLES  F.  SMITH 

But  little  information  concerning  the  service  record 
of  Charles  F.  Smith  was  available,  as  relatives  received 
but  the  simple  notice  from  the  war  department  that  he 
had  died  of  wounds  received  in  action.  His  mother, 
Mrs.  Mary  E.  Smith  of  Holland  township,  has  but  the 
melancholy  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  her  son,  whom 
she  gave  to  his  country,  but  whom  she  hoped  to  take 
to  her  arms  again  at  the  close  of  the  war,  was  bravely 
fighting  for  the  freedom  of  the  world  when  he  met  his 
death  at  the  hands  of  the  enemy.  According  to  the 
statement  received,  his  death  occurred  August  3,  191 8, 
but  it  is  not  known  in  just  what  manner  he  received  the 
wounds  which  took  his  life.  He  was  in  a  hospital  when 
the  end  came. 

Smith  was  born  in  Holland,  III.,  October  29,  1894, 
and  at  his  death  was  23  years  of  age.  He  was  reared 
on  the  farm,  and  before  his  enlistment  was  employed  at 
Meadows,  HI.  He  enlisted  February  16,  1918,  at 
llloomington,  and  was  assigned  to  Company  C  of  the 
39th  Division.  He  was  at  Camp  Mills,  L.  I.,  about 
two  months  before  he  sailed  for  France. 


Whenever    a    separation    is    made    between    liberty    and 
justice,   neither    is,    in    my    opinion,    safe. 

—Burke. 


We   mutually   pledge   to  each   other   our  lives,   our    for- 
tunes   and    our    sacred    honor. 

— Thomas  Jefferson. 

If    I    were    an     American,    as    I    am    an     Englishman, 
while     a     foreign     troop     was     landed     in     my     country,     I 

111         i 
never  would  lav   uo wn   mv   arms — never,   never,   never. 

—William    Pitt. 


Tf  any   one  attempts  to  haul   down   the   American   flag, 
shoot   him   on   the  spot. 

—John   A    Dix. 


CHESTER  W.  SPHAR 

Chester  W.  Sphar,  a  Shelby  county  registrant,  died 
of  pneumonia  in  France  on  the  22d  of  October,  1918, 
according  to  official  messages  received  by  his  relatives 
at  Tower  Hill.  He  was  inducted  by  the  Shelby  County 
Local  Board  at  Shelbyyille  on  the  27th  of  May,  1918, 
with  a  contingent  of  sixty-five  men,  and  sent  -  to  Hat- 
tiesburg,  Mississippi,  where  he  was  trained  at  Camp 
Shelby.  Later  he  was  transferred  overseas,  and  gave 
his  life  in  a  losing  battle  with  the  prevailing  epidemic. 

The  man  who  loves  home  best,  and  loves  it  most  un- 
selfishlv,  loves  his  country  best. 

— J.   G.   Holland. 


JAMES  FRANKLIN  ST1VISON 

James  F.  Stivison,  a  Moweaqua  soldier  who  was  in 
service  at  Camp  Holabird,  Md.,  for  three  months,  suc- 
cumbed to  the  influenza  and  pneumonia  epidemic  in  the 
hospital  at  Fort  Mctlenry,  Md.,  after  an  illness  of  only 
seven  days.  He  enlisted  at  Shelby  ville  September  3, 
1918,  and  was  assigned  to  the  Motor  Transport  unit 
321.  At  Camp  Holabird  he  served  as  cook  until  stricken 
with  his  fatal  illness. 

Stivison  was  born  at  Moweaqua,  October  15,  1892, 
and  was  a  farmer.  Before  his  enlistment  he  was  en- 

5 aged    in    agricultural    pursuits    on    his    own    farm    near 
loweaqua.      He   was   a   son    of   William   and    Lena   Stivi- 
son of  Moweaqua. 


CLARENCE  SUTTON 


Clarence  Sutton,  a  Shelby  county  youth  who  died 
from  wounds  received  in  action  in  France,  was  a  son 
of  Henry  and  Rosetta  Sutton  of  Windsor.  He  was 
born  near  Farmers  ville,  111.,  August  13,  1897,  and  died 
September  17,  1918.  The  story  of  his  death  is  told  in 
the  following  letter  from  the  Bureau  of  Communication, 
American  Red  Cross,  to  his  parents,  under  date  of  Oc- 
tober 29,  1918: 

"Private  Button's  company  was  encamped  in  a  wood 
about  fifteen  miles  from  the  front.  About  10  p.  m. 
three  German  aeroplanes  bombed  the  woods,  and  Pri- 
vate Sutton  was  struck  by  a  piece  of  shrapnel  which 
penetrated  his  brain.  At  Field  Hospital  No.  332  he 
received  immediate  attention  and  was  then  hurried  to 
Evacuation  Hospital  Xo.  7.  Everything  possible  was 
done  for  him  by  the  devoted  American  doctors  and 
nurses.  An  operation  was  started  in  the  faint  hope 
that  it  might  save  his  life,  but  he  died  a  few  min- 
utes after  they  had  begun.  The  Red  Cross  chaplain 
was  praying  at  his  side  all  the  time  until  the  hour  of 


his  death,  which  was  forty  minutes  after  midnight  on 
the  morning  of  September  17.  That  day  he  was  buried 
in  the  hospital  cemetery,  a  lovely  spot  on  the  side  of  a 
hill.  Chaplain  Kelley  conducted  the  service,  and  he 
was  buried  with  military  honors.  When  we  are  able  to 
send  you  a  photograph  of  his  grave  you  will  see  that 
it  has  the  same  loving  care  that  it  would  have  had 
if  he  had  been  buried  at  home." 

Private  Sutton  enlisted  at  Sullivan,  and  left  that  place 
as  a  member  of  C  Company,  130th  U.  S.  Inf.,  33d  Divi- 
sion. In  May,  1918,  he  left  Camp  Logan,  Houston, 
Texas,  where  the  regiment  had  been  in  training  since 
the  fall  of  1917,  and  crossed  with  his  company  to 
France,  where  he  was  soon  under  fire.  As  young  Sut- 
ton was  a  member  of  the  Moultrie  county  company  and 
went  into  camp  and  across  seas  with  that  company,  his 
service  record  is  not  in  the  archives  of  Shelby  county. 
However,  his  death  added  another  to  the  list  of  heroic 
dead  accredited  to  this  county,  and  his  name  is  revered 
as  one  of  Shelby's  gallant  sons. 


LAWRENCE  H.  SUDKAMP 

Lawrence  II.  Sudkarap,  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barney 
Sudkamp  of  Sigel,  was  born  on  the  farm  northeast  of 
that  village  on  the  15th  of  January,  1896.  He  grew  to 
young  manhood  on  the  farm,  and  was  employed  with  his 
father  in  agricultural  pursuits.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
boys  of  the  county  to  respond  to  the  call  to  military 
service,  and  was  inducted  with  the  second  contingent  of 
men  summoned  by  the  Local  Exemption  Board.  On 
the  19th  of  September,  1917,  he  left  Shelbyville  for  Camp 
Taylor,  Ky.,  where  he  was  placed  in  the  327th  Field 
Artillery,  Headquarters  Company,  as  first  class  saddler. 
In  January,  1918,  he  was  transferred  to  West  Point, 
Ky.,  where  he  was  taken  seriously  ill.  He  was  taken 
back  to  the  base  hospital  at  Camp  Taylor,  where  he  un- 
derwent an  operation  for  mastoid  abscess.  Following 
the  operation,  which  was  a  severe  one,  he  showed 
some  signs  of  improvement,  but  later  grew  worse  and 
died  May  28,  1918. 

The  body  of  the  dead  soldier  was  taken  to  the  home 
of  his  parents  at  Sigel,  where  the  funeral  was  held  and 
burial  took  place  in  the  Catholic  cemetery  at  Sigel. 

He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  4  sisters  and  5  brothers. 


IRA  WATKINS 

Ira  C.  Watkins,  formerly  of  Oconee  but  in  the  United 
States  regular  army  since  1910,  was  killed  in  action  on 
the  French  front,  April  27,  1918.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  within  six  days  of  being  thirty -seven 
years  old.  He  was  the  second  son  of  the  family  to  die 
in  the  service,  his  brother  Albert,  who  joined  the  army 
in  the  Spanish-American  war,  dying  in  an  army  hospital 
in  Washington,  I).  C..  in  1903. 

Ira  Watkins  enlisted  in  February,  1910.  At  the  time 
of  his  death  he  was  a  member  of  Company  D,  Machine 
Gun  Battalion.  Through  all  his  military  service  he  dis- 
played the  true  characteristics  of  a  real  soldier,  and 
when  the  end  came  he  met  his  death  bravely. 

Watkins  was  survived  by  his  mother,  Mrs.  Mary  J. 
Watkins  of  Oconee,  his  wife  and  son  Ira  Verne,  four 
sisters  and  one  brother. 


JOHN  PINKSTON  WEAKLEY 

John  P.  Weakley  of  Mqweaqua  was  the  only  Shelby 
county  soldier  to  yield  his  life  on  German  soil.  He 
died  in  a  hospital  in  Germany  while  there  with  the  army 
of  occupation.  His  death  was  due  to  spinal  meningitis, 
to  which  he  fell  a  victim  after  passing  through  some 
of  the  thickest  of  the  fighting  of  the  war  without  a 
scratch.  His  death  occurred  on  May  27,  1919,  on  the 
first  anniversary  of  his  call  to  the  colors.  On  May  27, 
1918,  he  was  inducted  by  the  Fayette  County  Local 
Board,  and  left  with  a  contingent  of  Fayette  county 
men  for  Camp  Gordon,  Ga.,  where  he  was  assigned  to 
26th  Company,  3d  Replacement  Regiment.  On  July  14 
he  left  Camp  Gordon  for  Camp  Merritt,  X.  J.,  and  on 
July  20  sailed  for  England,  where  he  landed  about  Au- 
gust 5.  On  the  9th  of  August  he  reached  France,  and 
was  placed  in  llth  Co.,  1st  Inf.,  Tr.  Reg.  Directly 
after  the  battle  of  Vesle  river  he  became  a  member  of 
the  Fourth  division,  and  was  in  the  front  line  on  the 
5th  of  September,  little  more  than  three  months  after 
leaving  home.  For  ten  days  he  was  on  the  Verdun  sec- 
tor, where  he  helped  hold  the  line,  and  after  being  re- 
lieved by  the  French,  went  immediately  to  the  Meuse- 
Argonne  great  offensive.  During  his  ti gluing  he  served 
on  three  battle  fronts,  and  was  under  fire  57  days.  He 
was  under  the  hottest  fire,  bullets  passing  through  his 
clothing,  sleeves  ami  pack,  hut  he  did  not  receive  a 
scratch. 

Later  a  letter  came  to  his  mother,  mailed  from 
Coblenz,  where  he  was  with  the  army  of  occupation. 
He  stated  he  was  suffering  from  a  stomach  disorder, 
and  said  he  would  take  a  train  for  the  border  and  ex- 
pected to  arrive  in  the  United  States  about  the  middle 
of  June.  The  next  message  told  of  his  death  in  the 
Evacuation  hospital  Xo.  49,  at  Coblenz.  He  was  witli 
the  59th  U.  S.  Inf.,  4th  Div.,  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Weakley  was  born  in  Shelby  county  X'ovember  17, 
1893,  the  son  of  James  and  Rossea  Weakley.  His 
father  is  dead.  Besides  his  mother  he  is  survived  by 
five  brothers  and  two  sisters. 


VOLLIE  L.  TRESSLER 

Vollie  Lane  Tressler,  a  young  farmer  of  Lake  wood, 
died  at  Fort  Logan  H.  Roots,  Ark.,  Thursday  morning, 
March  14,  1918.  His  death  was  due  to  measles  and 
pneumonia,  with  which  he  had  been  ill  at  camp  for  four 
weeks.  The  body  was  brought  to  the  home  of  his  par- 
ents, Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  L.  Tressler,  at  Lakewood  on  the 
day  following  his  death.  It  was  accompanied  by  Dean 
Tanner,  a  comrade  in  arms,  and  Miss  Lillian  Tressler, 
a  sister  of  the  dead  man,  who  had  been  summoned  to 
her  brother's  bedside  when  his  condition  became  crit- 
ical. 

Though  Tressler  was  a  Shelby  county  resident  and 
subject  to  the  draft,  he  did  not  await  the  process  of 
the  selective  draft  machinery,  but  early  in  the  year 
made  application  to  the  Local  Exemption  Board  for  in- 
duction, and  with  ten  other  voluntary  recruits  left 
Shelbyville  January  10  for  Fort  Oglethorpe,  (ia.  Later 
he  was  transferred  to  Arkansas,  and  died  there.  He 
was  almost  23  years  of  age,  having  been  born  April  17, 
1895,  in  Shelby  county.  He  was  reared  on  a  farm,  and 
remained  at  home  until  entering  the  service.  He  was 
an  exemplary  young  man,  and  stood  high  in  the  esti- 
mation of  all  who  knew  him.  He  was  the  second  Shelby 
county  man  to  die  after  going  to  the  training  camps. 

Mr.  Tressler  was  survived  by  his  parents,  three  sis- 
ters and  :wo  brothers.  The  sisters  are  Mrs.  Harley 
Hall,  Miss  Jettie  Tressler  and  Miss  Lillian  Tressler,  all 
of  Lakewood.  The  last  two  named  are  school  teachers, 
and  a  few  years  ago  Miss  Lillian  Tressler  was  a  candi- 
date for  the  nomination  for  county  superintendent  of 
schools.  The  brothers  are  .lames  and  Robert  Tressler, 
both  residing  in  Oklahoma. 

The  funeral  of  the  young  soldier  was  held  from  the 
family  home  at  Lakewood,  Saturday,  March  16,  con- 
ducted by  the  Rev.  J.  E.  Bowman.  Burial  was  in  the 
Ridge  cemetery. 


ROY  VANDERPOOL 

Roy  Vanderpool,  born  and  reared  in  Shelbyville  and 
a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Vanderpool,  now  of  Pana, 
111.,  died  in  France  because  of  his  bravery  and  in  sac- 
rifice for  others.  Facing  the  boche  snipers  in  the  town 
of  Albert  and  disregarding  the  advice  of  a  British  T'om- 
mie  to  "make  it  to  the  rear,"  Vanderpool  kept  up  an 
incessant  fire  that  did  much  to  cover  the  retreat  of  his 
comrades  to  a  place  of  safety,  only  to  become  the  target 
of  an  enemy  bullet  that  resulted  in  his  death  a  little 
later. 

Roy  Vanderpool  was  20  years  old,  having  been  born 
in  Shelbyville  in  1908.  In  1915,  when  but  17  years 
old,  he  enlisted  in  Company  H  of  the  old  Fourth  regi- 
ment, Illinois  National  Guard.  He  was  on  the  Mexican 
border  with  this  organization  in  1916-17,  and  left  Shelby- 
ville with  Company  H,  later  a  unit  of  the  130th  U.  S. 
Inf.,  for  Camp  Logan,  Houston,  Texas,  October  9,  1917. 
Later  he  accompanied  it  overseas,  and  was  with  it  in 
action  when  he  received  his  mortal  wound.  At  this 
particular  time  each  platoon  of  H  company  was  at- 
tached to  a  British  company,  and  acting  under  orders 
of  the  British  commanders.  A  daylight  patrol  of  40 
Hnglish  soldiers  and  one  American  from  each  platoon 
was  ordered  into  Albert,  which  was  in  No  Man's  Land 
and  infested  with  German  snipers.  Vanderpool  volun- 
teered from  his  platoon  and  while  pouring  his  fire  into 
the  enemy  after  entering  the  town  was  hit  by  a  sniper's 
bullet  fired  from  the  top  of  a  Cathedral.  He  was  car- 
ried out  under  dangerous  fire  and  after  several  weeks 
in  a  field  hospital  was  conveyed  to  the  base  hospital, 
where  he  died  October  12,  1918. 

Lieutenant  Me,  ,'onnough  said  of  him :  "They  got  the 
best  man  I  had  in  my  platoon.** 

Roy  Vanderpool  Post,  American  Legion,  Shelbyville, 
111.,  has  been  named  in  his  honor. 


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BERT  P.  WALKER 

Bert  P.  Walker,  another  Shelby  county  victim  of 
pneumonia,  following  a  siege  of  influenza,  was  buried 
in  the  White  cemetery,  Windsor  township,  Thursday, 
October  10,  1918.  His  death  occurred  at  Camp  Taylor, 
Ky.,  on  the  7th  of  October. 

Mr.  Walker  was  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  N. 
Walker  of  Windsor  township,  where  he  was  born  in 
1896.  On  the  28th  of  June,  1918,  he  was  inducted  into 
the  military  service  by  the  Shelby  County  Local  Board, 
and  sent  from  Shelbyville  with  185  men  to  Camp  Taylor. 
Two  days  before  his  departure  for  camp  he  married 
Miss  Eva  Johnson,  who  in  his  early  demise  was  left  a 
widow.  On  Sunday,  October  6,  Walker's  relatives  were 
notified  that  he  was  in  a  critical  condition,  and  his  wife, 
mother  and  brother  Rimer  left  at  once  for  Camp  Taylor, 
arriving  there  only  a  few  hours  before  his  death,  which 
occurred  on  the  7th.  The  body  was  brought  to  Wind- 
sor, arriving  there  on  Thursday  morning.  The  funeral 
took  place  a  few  hours  later,  with  services  conducted  by 
aii  old  friend  of  the  family,  the  Rev.  D.  A.  Shuck  of 
Fin  (11  ay. 

Besides  his  wife  and  parents,  Private  Walker  was  sur- 
vived by  two  brothers  and  two  sisters.  They  are  El- 
mer, Carroll,  Nellie  and  Dorothy  Walker,  all  of  Wind- 
sor township. 

I  do  not  know  what  I  may  appear  to  the  world,  but 
to  myself  I  seem  to  have  been  only  like  a  boy  playing 
on  the  sea-shore,  and  diverting  myself  in  now  and  then 
finding  a  smoother  pebble  or  a  prettier  shell  than  ordi- 
nary, whilst  the  great  ocean  of  truth  lay  all  undiscovered 
before  me. 

— Isaac   Xewton. 


Patriotism  is  simple  and  trustful,  like  family  affec- 
tion ;  and  its  subordinate  place  in  the  ordinary  life  of 
the  nation  is  seen  in  the  fact  that  it  rarely  shows  itself 
except  in  the  national  emergencies. 

— J.   G.   Holland. 


ADRIAN  WALL 

Adrian  Wall,  for  so  many  years  a  resident  of  Shelby- 
ville that  he  was  still  looked  upon  as  belonging  there, 
though  actually  a  resident  of  Decatur  when  he  entered 
the  service,  died  of  influenza  Friday,  September  27,  1918, 
at  the  Great  Lakes  Naval  Training  Station,  where  he 
went  several  months  prior  to  that  for  training.  The  in- 
sidiousness  of  the  disease  from  which  he  died  is  seen 
from  the  fact  that  after  his  first  illness  he  recovered 
sufficiently  to  be  discharged  from  the  hospital,  then 
suffered  a  relapse  and  died  within  a  day  or  two.  The 
body  was  brought  to  Shelbyville,  where  it  was  laid 
away  in  Glenwood  cemetery  on  Tuesday,  October  1,  with 
honors  befitting  the  dead  sailor.  The  service  took  place 
at  the  graveside,  with  the  flag  at  half  mast  and  the 
bugle  calls  as  features  of  the  impressive  ceremonies. 
The  body  was  escorted  from  the  home  of  a  relative. 
Miss  Mabel  Hagan,  to  the  cemetery  by  the  Shelbyville 
Commercial  Club  in  a  body,  the  procession  being  led  by 
the  "colors,"  borne  by  Color  Sergeant  John  WUburn. 
Many  of  the  former  classmates  of  young  Wall  were  in 
the  assemblage  at  the  grave. 

Wall  enlisted  at  Peoria  February  8,  1918,  in  the  Ra- 
dio service.  He  was  called  to  Great  Lakes  May  3,  1918, 
then  to  get  into  quicker  service  secured  transfer  to  be 
a  submarine  listener,  and  was  ready  to  leave  for  New 
York  when  he  was  taken  ill. 

Adrian  Wall  was  born  in  Shelbyville  about  twenty- 
two  years  ago,  and  was  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Russell 
Wall.  Some  years  later  the  family  moved  to  Danville, 
111.,  then  back  to  Shelbyville  and  eventually  to  Decatur, 
where  Mr.  Wall  is  a  concrete  contractor.  Following 
the  return  to  Shelbyville,  the  son  attended  the  public 
schools  and  was  graduated  from  the  Shelbyville  high 
school  with  the  class  of  1917.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Baptist  Sunday  school  and  of  the  church,  and  his  mem- 
bership remained  there  until  his  death.  He  bore  a 
splendid  reputation,  was  quiet,  courteous  and  kindly, 
and  won  and  held  many  friends  by  his  charming  char- 
acteristics. 


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MANY  YIELDS 


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The  Armistice 


In  common  with  the  Nation's  capital  and  prac- 
tically every  other  city,  town  and  hamlet  in  the 
country,  Shelbyville  and  other  towns  of  Shelby 
County,  through  an  erroneous  press  report,  had  the 
privilege  of  twice  celebrating  the  signing  of  the 
armistice.  That  the  early  report  was  premature  was 
not  learned  in  time  to  detract  from  the  satisfaction 
the  people  had  in  giving  vent  to  their  great  delight 
in  the  end  of  the  war;  and  even  when  they  were 
informed  that  the  supposed  cessation  of  hostilities 
had  not  taken  place,  they  took  the  matter  philo- 
sophically, secure  in  the  well-founded  belief  that  it 
would  be  but  a  matter  of  days  or  perhaps  hours, 
until  they  could  celebrate  the  verity.  And  this  proved 
to  be  true,  for  within  four  days  of  the  erroneous  re- 
port of  the  signing  of  the  armistice,  the  military 
authorities  representing  the  belligerent  nations  had 
attached  their  signatures  to  that  fateful  document 
and  the  war  was  over. 

Announcement  that  the  greatest  war  in  history 
had  come  to  an  end  was  first  made  in  Shelbyville 
through  a  press  report  that  reached  the  city  at 
ten  minutes  of  twelve  o'clock,  noon,  on  Thursday, 
Xov.  7,  1918.  Within  a  minute  after  the  Daily 
Union,  which  received  the  report,  had  posted  the 
flash  in  the  window,  a  crowd  which  rapidly  swelled 
to  thousands  began  to  assemble  and  from  a  nucleus 
of  a  half  dozen  men  who  threw  their  hats  into  the 
air  and  gave  three  rousing  cheers  as  they  read  the 
joyful  tidings,  a  throng  of  men,  women,  boys  and 
girls  formed  into  a  parade  and  for  hours  marched 
through  the  streets,  demonstrating  their  happiness 
with  a  spontaneity  lacking  in  the  later  celebration. 
Early  in  the  game  the  big  siren  at  the  electric 
light  plant  cut  loose,  and  its  strident  but  welcome 
"notes"  quickly  turned  the  old  town  inside  out,  for 
out  of  homes,  offices,  stores,  schools  and  shops 
poured  the  nopulace,  instantly  to  take  up  the  glad 
refrain  of  "Peace!"  Men  in  shirt-sleeves  and  hat- 
less,  soldiers  of  other  wars,  young  soldiers  home  on 
furlough,  school  teachers  and  pupils,  gray-haired  men 
and  women,  little  boys  and  girls  —  all  with  happy  and 
grateful  hearts  —  were  participants  in  the  event  that 
will  never  be  effaced  from  memory  of  those  who 
experienced  it. 

In  an  incredibly  short  time,  too,  the  country  peo- 
ple began  to  pour  into  the  county  seat,  and  the 
wires  were  hot  between  Shelbyville  and  outlying 
towns,  carrying  the  tiding,  "The  war  is  over!" 

Practically  all  afternoon  the  demonstration  con- 
tinued, though  committees  at  once  began  prepara- 
tions for  a  monster  celebration  in  the  evening. 
This  was  held,  and  for  hours  to  the  accompaniment 


of  a  band  and  every  conceivable  noise-making  in- 
strument, the  people  of  all  ages,  sex  and  color  vied 
with  each  other  in  exhibitions  of  their  joy  that  was 
well  nigh  frantic. 

THE   SECOXD   CELEBRATION 

But  the  big  peace  celebration  had  to  be  done  all 
over  again!  And  the  people  did  it  with  a  will. 

Plans  for  an  organized  demonstration  were  laid 
early.  In  Windsor,  Strasburg,  Stewardson,  Tower 
Hill  and  other  outlying  towns  of  the  county,  the 
celebration  started  at  noon,  while  in  the  county  seat 
it  was  held  in  the  evening,  with  the  people  of  the 
other  towns  participating.  Windsor  has  credit  for 
putting  on  the  first  formal  celebration. 

As  in  the  first  instance,  The  Daily  Union  re- 
ceived the  message  of  the  signing  of  the  armistice, 
getting  the  wire  at  an  early  hour  in  the  morning  of 
Monday,  Nov.  11,  1918,  that  the  surrender  terms  of 
the  Germans  had  been  signed  at  3  o'clock,  a.  m. 
The  report  was  abundantly  verified  before  being  an- 
nounced, and  then  given  to  the  people,  who  for  the 
most  part  took  the  news  gravely,  yet  could  ill  con- 
ceal their  gratification  and  happiness  that  the  long 
and  terrible  war  was  ended.  Flags  went  up,  coun- 
tenances took  on  a  different  expression,  friend 
clasped  hand  with  friend  in  silent  or  exuberant  greet- 
ing. 

The  crowd  that  assembled  in  the  evening  on  the 
streets  of  Shelbyville  was  too  unwieldly  to  whip 
into  regular  marching  order.  Had  that  been  done, 
the  procession  would  have  extended  a  mile  and  a 
half.  "Old  Glory,"  in  the  hands  of  Color  Bearer 
John  Wilburn,  led.  Following  were  soldiers  in  uni- 
form, a  committee  from  the  Shelbyville  Commercial 
Club  bearing  that  organization's  Service  Flag,  the 
band,  the  Red  Cross  Chapter,  with  its  great  banner 
borne  by  its  president.  Dr.  J.  C.  Westervelt,  and  a 
great  number  of  other  organizations,  including  all 
the  war  work  departments,  schools,  college,  lodges, 
unions,  citizens,  and  with  many  service  flags  borne 
by  willing  hands. 

There  was  plenty  of  noise,  plenty  of  enthusiasm, 
plenty  of  pep  and  ginger,  and  underneath  the  sur- 
face an  abiding  feeling  of  gladness  that  having  ac- 
complished the  things  for  which  they  fought,  the 
boys  of  Shelby  County  no  longer  were  on  the  fir- 
ing line. 

The  first  anniversary  of  the  signing  of  the  arm- 
istice was  celebrated  soberly.  At  various  points  in 
the  county  all  work  suspended  for  a  minute  at  11 
o'clock,  while  the  people  reflected  on  the  blessings 
of  peace. 


Page  Xincty-Fire 


tirtesy  "Over  Here." 


SALVATION   ARMY   LASSIES   FRYING  DOUGHNUTS   XEAR   SOISSONS 


Salvation  Army  Home  Service 


Shelby  County  was  asked  for  a  donation  of  $7,950 
for  the  Salvation  Army  Home  Service,  to  which  Illi- 
nois pledged  the  raising  of  $2,250,000  during  the 
week  of  Sept.  22  to  29,  1919.  The  valiant  overseas 
war-time  service  of  the  Salvation  Lassies  commended 
that  organization  to  the  interest  and  approval  of  the 
public  in  the  drive  that  was  designed  to  relieve  it 
from  the  further  task  of  raising  its  funds  for  home 
service  in  miserable  pittances  gleaned  in  tambourines 
and  personal  solicitation  on  the  streets,  and  make  it 
possible  for  the  devoted  workers  to  divert  their  en- 
tire time  and  energies  to  the  magnificent  work  of 
ministration,  to  which  they  had  dedicated  their  lives. 

Election  of  officers  for  the  county  organization 
took  place  at  a  banquet  at  the  New  Neal  hotel  on 
the  evening  of  Monday,  Aug.  25,  with  the  following 
results: 

Chairman— L.    E.    Powell,   Shelbyville. 

Vice  Chairman — Dr.  F.  W.  Risser,  Strasburg. 

Secretary — L.  C.   Westervelt,  Shelbyville. 

Treasurer — J.  J.   Ward,  Shelbyville. 

Publicity    Director — D.    Leslie    Davis,    Shelbyville. 

EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE 
Tom  Newby,  Okaw. 
J.  H.  Wallace,  Windsor. 
Frank   Larimer,  Mode. 
And  the  officers. 


LOCAL  CHAIRMEN  AND  QUOTAS 

The  local  chairmen  and  quotas  allotted  to  the 
several  townships  of  the  county,  were  as  follows: 

Oconee,  Harry  Hinton  ;  $330. 
Herrick,  Roscoe  T.  Clark;   $160. 

Cold  Spring,   Guy   Foster  and   George   Fankboner;   $170. 
Tower  Hill,  J.   P.  Wilkinson;  $310. 
Rural,   George   Galster;    $370. 
Flat   Branch,    M.   A.   Duncan;   $380. 
Moweaqua,   W.   K.   Andrews;    $440. 
Dry    Point,   Clyde  Howe;   $200. 

Lakewood,    Lon    Parr,   R.    L.   Shores,    C.   P.    Roberts;   $160. 
Rose,  John   Kull,   Roy   Kull ;    $300. 
Ridge,    Edward  Christman ;   $300. 
Pickaway,   Ed  Cole;  $360. 
Penn,  $330 ;   chairman  not  named. 
Holland,   Frank  Larimer;  $120. 
Clarksburg,  J.   K.   Hoagland;   $120. 
Shelbyville,  J.  D.   Miller;   $1,120. 
Okaw,  Tom  Newby,  Ed  Turney ;  $350. 
Todd's  Point,  James  Snapp,  C.  C.  Snapp;   $230. 
Prairie,  A.  C.  Mautz,  R.  E.  Voris;  $450. 

Richland,  Dr.  F.  W.  Risser,  J.  E.  Weber,  Dr.  F.  W. 
Schroeder;  $490. 

Windsor,  J.  II.  Wallace,  A.  B.  Storm;  $360. 
Sigel,  John  A.   Berchtold,  A.   W.   Bigler;  $170. 
Big  Spring,  J.  C.  Quinn ;  $200. 
Ash  Grove,  H.  C.  May,  Sylvester  Clawson ;  $420. 

Resolutions  were  adopted  approving  the  plan  and 
pledging  support  to  the  drive,  but  for  some  reason 
yet  unexplained  the  work  failed  of  its  purpose,  and  at 
the  date  of  this  writing,  months  after  the  close  of 
the  campaign,  a  total  of  only  $1,982.51  is  in  the  hands 
of  the  treasurer. 


Page  Ninety-Six 


DIVISION  AND  CORPS  INSIGNIA 


FIRST  ARMY: 
Organized  August  10, 
1918,  under  General 
Pershing.  Composed 
of  First,  Fifth  and 
Kightji  Corps. 


SKCOX1)  CORPS: 
( )rganize;l       Februarv 
22,     1918.       Composed 
of  27th  and   30th    Di- 
visions. 


THIRL)   CORPS: 
Organized     May    8, 
1918.        Composed     of 
1st,    3d,    4th,    33d   and 
80th    Divisions. 


THIRD  ARMY: 
( >rganized  Nov.  14, 
1918,  under  Major- 
Genera!  I )  i  ck  man. 
Composed  of  Third, 
Fourth  and  Seventh 
Corps. 


FOURTH  CORPS: 

Organized  June  20, 
1918.  Composed  of 
-M.  5th,  42d,  78th, 
89th  and  90th  Divi- 
sions. • 


SKCOXI)  ARMY: 
Formed  ( )ctober  10, 
1918,  under  Lieuten- 
ant-General Bullard. 
Composed  of  the 
Sixth  and  X  i  11  t  h 
C'orps. 


FIRST  C'ORPS:  ' 
Organized  January 
20,  1918.  C'omposed 
of  28th,  35th,  77th, 
82(1  and  9.M  Divi- 
sions. 


SIXTH  CORPS: 
<  )rganized  August  1 , 
1918.  Composed  of 
92d,  88th,  7th,  28th, 
5th  and  33d  Divi- 
sions. 


SEVENTH  CORPS: 
Organized  August  20, 
1918.  Composed  of 
6th,  81st  and  88th 
Divisions. 


G.il.Q.  IXSiGXlA: 
General  Headquarters 
insignia  is  said  to 
have  been  derived 
from  the  striped  arm- 
band worn  by  staff 
officers  at  the  front. 


KIGHTII  CORPS: 
Organized  November 
29,  1918.  Composed 
of  6th,  77th  and  81st 
1  divisions. 


A 

XKW    TANK    IX"* 
SIGNIA: 

Adopted  Jtccause  the 
Tank  Corps  combines 
functions  of  Artillery, 
In  fan  try  and  Cavalry, 


XTXTII    C'ORPS: 
( >rganized     Xovember 
26,      1918.        Included 
33d,     35th     and     88th 
and     79th    Divisions. 


RAILROAD    SEC- 
TIONS: 

Insignia  worn  by 
Regulating  and  Rail- 
road Sections,  com- 
posed of  Ertffiiieerti. 


UKSKRVK   MAL- 
LET: 

Organized  October  I, 
1917,  from  Members 
of  former  American 
Field  Service  at  Sois- 
sons,  France. 


AMBULANCE 
SERVICE: 

These  colors  are  the 
same  as  those  of  the 
insignia  on  Ambu- 
lance and  Hospital 
trains. 


CKXTRAD   RKC- 
ORDS  OFFICE: 
I -oca  ted    at     ISourges. 
Keeps    tal>    on    every- 
body in   the  A.    F.    F. 
and       compiles       vital 
statistics. 


C.  W.  S.  SERVICE 

This  is  the  insignia 
of  the  Chemical  War- 
fare Service,  which 
provides  d  e  fens  e 
against  gas  attacks. 


/9th  DIVISION: 
Arrived  in  France 
July  15,  1918.  Na- 
tional Army  of  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia, 
Maryland  and  Penn- 
sylvania. 


87tii  DIVISION1; 

Arrived  in  France 
Sept.  14,  1918.  Na- 
tional Army  of  Miss- 
issippi, Louisiana  and 
Arkansas. 


40th  DIVISION* 
Arrived  in  France 
August  20,  1918.  Sol- 
diers from  California, 
Nevada,  tJtah,  Colo- 
rado, Arizona  and 
New  Mexico. 


41st  DIVISION': 
Arrived  in  France 
J  an  uar  y  1,  1918. 
Composed  of  Wash- 
ington. Oregon,  Mon- 
tana, Idaho  and  Wy- 
oming troops. 


78th  DIVISION  : 
Arrived  in  France 
June  8,  1918.  Made 
up  of  National  Army 
of  New  Jersey,  Dela- 
ware and  New  York. 


REGIMENTAL  OFFICERS  AXI)  PERSOXXEL  OF  COMPAXY! 

Y1LLE,  OCTPBI 


Major: 

William   Klauser 

Captains : 

Frank  P.  Auld 
C'arl  F.  Lauer 
Vance  Courtright 

First    Lieutenants  : 
Charles  Twiss 
J.  Glen   Miller 
( )liver  C.    Brown 

Second     Lieutenant  : 
Harry    Downs 

First    Sergeant : 
I  loward    Bridges 


Supply   Sergeant : 
Samuel   Davis 

Sergeants : 

Clete    Henderson 
.1  olm    W  iiburn 
( ieorge    llurnett 
George   Stretch 
Gaylord   Terry 
Raymond   Voiles 
Charles   Young 

C'orporals : 
Fred    Martin 
Alma   White 
("linton    Wiley 


Frank   I  Jeweese 
Harry    Osborne 
Karl   Fisher 
Ellsworth    Fought 
Art    Gilleland 
Roy    Kull 
Carl    Olmstead   . 
(Irvil    Rich 

Cocks : 

Andrew  Hudson 
Pearlie  Deweese 
Karl  Shoaf 

Musician  : 

1  Icnry  Thompson 


Privates : 

l!agh    Baillic 
I  'ewey    Barker 
Charles    Barrett 
Kay    Barton 
Clyde    I  Sates 
I  .ueian    Hates 
G.-orjje   1'atton 
John    Batton 
1  leaden    Broyles 
Paul    Buckler 
Walter    P>ullerman 
Joe    Iturgen 
Rollie    Iturrus 
Dail    F.    Ilutler 
lohn    Ilutler 
\\'illiam   Commerford 


Frc<l  Cunn 
R:ilpli  Con1 
( tuy  Cordr 
James  Crul 
Ravmcnd  i 
William  I) 
John  1  )ieU 
I lerman  PI 
1  .incohi  Kli 
Char'es  El 
Win  field  E 
Fred  Keldi 
lirucf  Flei 
lames  K.  1 
"iVIhert  Fl 
Floyd  Fre;i 


SHELBY  COUNTY'S  LARGEST  COXTIXGEXT,  INDUCTED  J 


Otto    C.    Arnold 
Klmer    Allen 
Stephen    J.    Uusher 
Lester    C'.    Kahcock 
Millard     Hlancett 
( it-orge    T.    Itaptist 
( Iscar    H.    Marhre 
Sidney    V.     Ilivins 
Walter    IHgler 
Lloyd    L.    P.igler 
Chester    K.    Barton 
(Irover     Maker 
Fred     Bridges 
X'irgil    R.    Brewer 
Charles     C.     Banks 
I  ?avie    liartley 
Leonard    Hartley 
Dan     P.    Boblctt 
Alonzo    Bruner 
less   W.    Coultas 


Roy    \*.    Cowling 
John    F.    Chappel 
I  >aniel    I").    Christner 
( luy    Christie 
Alfred    Crow 
Charles    Cox 
Joseph    I.    Cocagne 
Joe     D.    ( 'hristner 
I ,opan    J,    Clark 
John    J.    Carroll 
( Jscar    Connor 
Robert    Cress 
Clyde    Denier 
T  burnt  an     Dildine 
Thomas    W.    Dobba 
Kd.    W.    Doeding 
Kdfjar    W'.    Doenring 
Lloyd    Kwick 
Ralph    Klliott 
Arthur    J.    Finks 


Ralph   K.   Flanders 
Clarence    L.    Frazier 
Paul     Fisher 
Albin    A.    Foelsinp 
Leonard    R.    Flescli 
I  .oj^an     Frailey 
lohn    1 1 .    Friesner 
N'oah    F.    Farris 
Harry    Frailey 
Roy  "K.    Fish'-.-l 
Ross    Fleming 
Lawrence     L.     (Iregory 
William    drabner 
Karl    Cioodwin 
C'liarles    (lor don 
Lloyd     Gregory 
Lawrence    Gordon 
Lenjel    (iriffin 
t  Jrville    Gillispey 


Floyd    K.   (Iroo:n 
Luther    Hen  Iricks 
Garland    IS.    Hiatt 
I  avid    F.    Hudson 
Xoali     Hamilton 
Edgar    llinton 
Frank    Hill 
-  Nile    Hickman 
James    C.     Hall 
Chancy     M.    Hosteller 
Yernon    L.    Haines 
Chester    C.    I  lagan 
Kddie    R.    Heil 
lames    K.    He<lges 
Ralph    Huber 
Harry    Holthaus 
James    L.    Ireland 
William    F.   Jones 
(lien    Johnson 


Earnest   II. 
Joseph    E.   K 
Walter  G.  K 
Lawrence    K 
Louis    K.   Ka 
Clarence     E. 
Elmer    G.    L; 
FIza    L.    Lee 
Henry    S.    L 
George    F.    I 
Karl    Lowe 
C'lyde    K.    Lo 
Claud    H.    M 
Oscar    F:    M 
Edmund     Ma 
Sylvester    J. 
Charles    W.     , 
Guy    T.    McCj 
Clarence    D. 


.  130TH  U.  S.  1XFAXTRY,  WHEN  LEAVING  SHELBY- 

9,  1917 


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ing 

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ger 


Pan    Fritz 
Everett   (iermaiii 
Ralph    Gilleland 
Yarnie    ( inftin 
Albert   Griffith 
(ieorge    Griffith 
Fernand    (luvot 
Ralph    Hatfield 
Elmer   Hawk 
Elmer   Hudson 
Nelson   Hudson 
Lloyd  Johnson 
James   Johnson 
Robert    Johnson 
Victor  Keller 
Paul    Kull 


Orvillc    Lamb 
. \Ionzo    Lee 
Albert  McBroom 
Foster  McMullin 
Xeil   Manning 
Lester   Melton 
Ora    Mills 
Arnold  Montooth 
Sidney   Morgan 
Ross    Muncey 
\'urn    Mullinix 
Frank    Xeal 
Harold    Xutt 
Charles  Onion 
Tom    Parker 
John    Peters 


Arthur    UadlotT 
Susa    Risser 
(ieorge   Salmons 
Clarence    Sammons 
M aynard    Sam]) son 
Yirgil    Sharp 
David   Sharrock 
Roy    Sharrock 
Frank   Sherlock 
Walter   Shewmake 
Fred  -Skaggs 
Thomas    Slifer 
Lawrence   Smith 
Ralph  Sprague 
Charles   Smith 
John  Stockdale 


Emery   Tallman 
Carl  Tapp 
John    Tetrick 
William   Thompson 
Tom  Tull 
Roy   Vanderpool 
Orrie    Wade 
John    Wafford 
Everett  Waketield 
Baird   Walden 
Earl   Whitacre 
Hurley    Westenhaver 
Marion   Westenhaver 
Charles  Wilson 
Raymond    Worley 
Murvin    Yakey 


E  27,  1918,  AND  ENTRAINED  FOR  CAMP  TAYLOR,  KY. 


ISU11 

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Claude     McKinn  ?y 
Fdw.    McClanahan 
Harper    MayTierry 
(ieorge    E.    Xe wherry 
Jo*1"     !      Malone 
Ester    c.'.    McCoy 
lames    C.    Moore 
John    D.    Miller 
Louis    T.    Mittendorf 
Lloyd    0.    Miller 
William    Mueller,    Jr. 
Jasper    W.    X'ance 
Claud    Xewberry 
Vernie    E.     X'ew  berry 
Luther    Olshaskie 
John    W.    Xorth 
Sam    Patterson 
Lawrence    Ponsler 
Chester    Prosser 


Ray    Pebernat 

Ernest    L.    Presnell 

Ollie    Phelps 

Henry     F.    W.    C.     Pieper 

Lemuel    Pratt 

Thomas    Rudd 

Earl    W.    Reynolds 

Floyd    Rinehart 

Edwin    II.    Ruwc 

Floyd    Robh 

Frank  Robv 

Harry    E.    Russell 

Lucian    Ruch 

Walter    Shellenberger 

William    Smith 

Roy    Strohl 

Marion    E.    Slifer 

Reverdia   Storm 

Clifford    Schutte 


Fred    W.    Staehli 
Delhert     M.    Stoddard 
Wilse    E.    Slifer 
Roll    Seward 
Rolla  C.   Sloan 
Roy     Schwenker 
X'ewton    Siler 
Otto   H.    Schmitt 
C'ecil    W.    Slater 
Wallace   Smith 
Eli    W.    Skidmpre 
Joseph    Schabbing 
Clarence    H.    Summers 
Edward    Sloan 
Lewis    B.    Sudkamp 
Ambrose    L.    Strohl 
Clarence    Scott 
Roy    Tull 
AdJey    S.    Tull 
Daniel    W.    Trigg 


Phillip    II.    Tiemati 
Wallace/).    T'abbert 
Eldon    (ilynn    Turner 
Ralph    Towers 
Earl    VermilHon 
Theo.    Von  1'ehren 
William    I!.    Wright 
John     L.    Wheat 
Thomas    F.    Wheat 
Leonard    Wirey 
Iva    M.    Wooters 
Clayton    A.    Ward 
Robert    S.    York 
Jake    Daniel    Ulmar 
lames    A.    Welch 
Dail    Butler 
Sylvester    T.    Fouste 
Henry    E.    Wade 
liert  'P.    Walker 
lohn    H.    Wirey 


DIVISION  INSIGNIA 


3d  DIVISION": 
Made  up  from  Regu- 
lar Army,  ( Division 
Headquarters  arrived 
in  France  April  4, 
1918). 


26th    DIVISION': 
Made   up  of   National 
Guard    of    New    Kng- 
land.         (Arrived      in 
France  Dec.  5,  1917.) 


32d  DIVISION: 
Made  up  of  National 
Guard  of  "  Michigan 
and  Wisconsin.  (Ar- 
rived in  France  Feb. 
29,  1918.) 


37th    DIVISION: 
Made   up    of    National 
Guard  of  Ohio.     (Ar- 
rived  in    France  June 
23,    1918.) 


8Sth  DIVISION: 
Made  up  of  National 
Army  of  N.  Dakota, 
Minnesota,  Iowa,  Illi- 
nois. (Arrived  in 
France  Aug.  16,  '18.) 


4th    DIVISION": 
Made    up    from    Regu- 
lar Army.   (Arrived  in 
France  May   17,   '18.) 


27th    DIVISION": 
Made    up    of    .National 
Army     of    Xew     York 
(."ity.          ( Arrived       in 
France  April  13,  '18.) 


33d  DIVISION: 
Made  up  of  National 
(  i  uar  d  of  Illinois  and 
West  Virginia.  (Ar- 
rived in  France  May 
24,  1918.) 


42d  DIVISION: 
Made  up  from  Na- 
tional Guard  of  26 
States  and  District  of 
Columbia.  ( Arrived 
in  France  Nov.  1, 
1917.) 


82d  DIVISION: 
National  Army  of 
Georgia,  Alabama  and 
Tennessee.  (Arrived 
in  France  May  17, 
1918.) 


5th  DIVISION': 
Regular  A  r  m  \ 
(Arrived  i  : 
France  May  1 
1918.) 


1 


1st    DIVISION: 
Made       up       from 


34th    DIVISION: 
National       Guard       of 
Iowa,   Minnesota,   Xe- 


Regular      Army.    |)raska   and  North  Da- 
(Arrived        in     ^ota 
France     June     27, 


90th    DIVISION: 
National       Army       of 
Texas  and  Oklahoma. 
(Arrived      in      France 
June   23,    1918.) 


28th    DIVISION: 
Pennsylvania    Nation- 
al  Guard.    (Arrived  in 
France    May    18,    '18.) 


6th    DIVISION  : 
Made     up     from     the 
Regular   Army.       (Ar- 
rived   in    France   July 
23,   1918,) 


29th  DIVISION: 
Made  up  from  Na- 
tional Guard  of  Mary- 
land, Xew  Jersey, 
Delaware,  Virginia 
and  District  of  Co- 
lumbia. (.Arrived  in 
France  June  27,  '18.) 


2d   DIVISION: 
Selected     from     Regu- 
lar    Army.      (Arrived 
in     France     Oct.     26, 
1917.) 


80th  DIVISION: 
Made  up  of  National 
Army  of  Virginia, 
West  Virginia  and 
Pennsylvania.  (Ar- 
rived in  France  May 
30,  1918.) 


7th    DIVISION: 
Made    up    from    Reg- 
ular  Army.      (Arrived 
in     Frante     Aug.     1 1< 
1918.) 


30th  DIVISION;: 

Made  up  of  soldiers 
of  Tennessee  and  the 
Carolinas.  (Arrived  in 
France  June  27,  '18.) 


36th    DIVISION: 
National      Guard      of 
Texas  and  Oklahoma. 
( Arrived      in      France 
July   31,    1918.) 


81st  DIVISION' i 
Made  of  soldiers  from 
North  and  South  Car- 
olina, Florida  and 
Porto  Rico.  (Arrived 
in  France  Aug.  16, 
1918.) 


77th    DIVISION: 
National       Army       of 
New   York  City.   (Ar- 
rived in   France  April 
13,   1918.) 


91st  DIVISION: 
Ma-le  of  soldiers  from 
Alaska,  Oregon, 
Washington,  Califor- 
nia, Idaho,  Nevada, 
Montana,  Wyoming 
and  Utah.  ( Arrived 
in  France  July  12, 


92d    DIVISION: 

(Colored) 

National  Army.  (Ar- 
rived in  France  Tune 
19,  1918.) 


89th    DIVISION: 
Made    up    of    Soldiers 
from       Missouri      and 
Kansas.      ( Arrived    in 
France  June  22,  '18.) 


35th  DIVISION:  ; 
Made  up  of  the  Na- 
tional Guard  of  Mis- 
souri and  Kansas. 
( Arrived  in  France 
May  11,  1918.) 


31st  DIVISION: 
Made  up  of  troops 
from  Alabama,  Geor- 
gia, Florida.  Initials 
mean  "Dixie  Divi- 
sion." 


38th  DIVISION: 
Made  up  of  troop 
from  Indiana  an 
Kentucky.  Letter 
stand  for  "Cyclon 
Division." 


§6th  DIVISION": 
Made  up  of  troops 
from  1 1  linoi  s  and 
Wisconsin  Infantry, 
use;!  as  replacements. 
"Black  Hawk  Divi- 
sion." 


Color  Plates  by  Adv.  />cpt.   Simmons  Hardware   Co.,  St.   Louis,   M 


Miss  BLANCHE  SNYDER         Miss  CORNELIA  THOMAS         Miss  EMMA  PAUSCHERT      MRS.  GAIL  FREDE  TALLMAN 


In   Service   to   Soldiers 


Shelby  County's  men  in  uniform  were  not  all  on 
the  firing  line  nor  subject  to  military  discipline. 
Some  of  them,  serving  just  as  patriotically  and  ef- 
fectively were  in  the  garb  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  secre- 
tary or  War  Camp  Community  worker,  while  other 
devoted  servants  of  the  men  of  the  military  and 
naval  establishments  were  the  self-sacrificing  women 
who  entered  the  hospital  ward  to  minister  to  the 
sick  and  wounded  in  their  need.  No  less  than  eigh- 
teen of  Shelbyville's  men  and  women  entered  service 
in  one  or  another  of  these  capacities,  and  did  splendid 
work  in  their  chosen  field.  The  list  follows: 
NURSES 

Miss  Minnie  Snyder,  Moweaqua. 
Miss  Ethel    Vantis,   Moweaqua. 
Miss  Cornelia  Thomas,  Shelbyville. 
Miss   Emma  Pauschert,  Chicago,  111. 
Mrs.  (iail   Freda  Tallman,  Shelbyville. 
Miss  Geneva   Casstevens,    Fancher. 
Miss  Mary  Buzzard,  Cowden. 

Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Mrs.   Carl   Olmstead,   Findlay. 
Rev.  W.  II.  Storm,  Findlay. 
W.   F.   Aichele,  Shelbyville. 
Rev.  Chas.   R.  Shepherd,  Shelbyville. 
Lyman   R.   Hiatt,  Trowbridge. 
Orville  S.  Storm,  Shelbyville. 
Wilse  Underwood,  Findlay. 

WAR  CAMP  COMMUNITY  SERVICE 
Mrs.   Fae   Isenberg   Searcy,   Springfield. 
Arthur  M.  Cannon,  Seattle,  Wash. 

YEOMANETTE 
Miss  Anna   M.    Reck,  Windsor. 

CIVIL  SERVICE 
Miss  Flossie  A.   Heck,  Windsor. 

While  in  two  or  three  instances  the  place  of 
residence  is  given  as  outside  Shelby  County,  the  per- 
sons designated  formerly  were  residents  of  this 
county  and  look  upon  Shelby  as  "home."  The  serv- 
ice record  of  the  above,  as  far  as  the  publishers  of 
this  history  have  been  able  to  learn  it.  is  as  follows: 

MIXXIE  LUCILE  SXYDER 

Miss  Minnie  Lucile  Snyder  was  born  in  Mowea- 
qua in  1891.  and  is  a  daughter  of  Mrs.  M.  E.  Snyder. 
In  her  young  womanhood  she  became  a  nurse,  and 
was  employed  at  St.  Louis.  On  Aug.  1,  1918,  she  en- 
listed at  St.  Louis  in  the  Army  Xurse  Corps,  and  was 
assigned  to  Base  Xo.  70,  at  Camp  Logan,  Houston, 


Tex.  On  the  28th  of  Xov.,  1918,  she  sailed  from 
Hoboken  on  the  transport  Mongolia,  landing  in 
Brest,  France,  on  Dec.  10  following.  She  served  at 
Allerey,  where  she  had  charge  of  the  surgical  ward, 
and  at  Toul.  where  she  was  in  charge  of  the  spinal 
meningitis  patients.  Returning  to  Xew  York  in  the 
summer  of  1919,  Miss  Snyder  was  discharged  there 
in  June  and  returned  to  her  former  employment  as 
a  nurse  in  St.  Louis.  She  is  a  graduate  from  Barnes 
hospital,  St.  Louis. 

ETHEL  YAXT1S 

Miss  Ethel  Yantis,  formerly  of  Moweaqua,  was 
throughout  the  war  and  still  is  in  service  as  a  nurse. 
About  six  years  ago  she  was  graduated  from  the  Post 
Graduate  Hospital  in  Chicago.  In  the  year  the 
United  States  entered  the  war  she  enlisted  for  war 
service,  and  for  some  time  was  stationed  at  Camp 
Grant,  Rockford,  111.,  where  she  gave  her  best  work 
in  ministering  to  the  sick  soldiers.  F'rom  that  camp 
she  was  transferred  to  Fort  Sheridan,  where  she  re- 
mains. She  is  in  love  with  the  work  in  which  she  is 
engaged,  and  means  to  re-enlist  for  three  years  more, 
instead  of  accepting  the  discharge  to  which  she  is 
entitled. 

Miss  Yantis  is  a  daughter  of  the  late  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
John  Yantis,  and  was  born  and  reared  in  the  vicinity 
of  Moweaqua.  Shortly  after  her  graduation  from  the 
nurse's  training  course,  however,  she  located  in  De- 
catur,  where  she  was  engaged  at  her  profession  until 
she  heeded  the  call  to  wider  service.  She  is  an  at- 
tractive young  woman,  and  is  popular  with  those  to 
whom  she  ministers. 

CORXKLIA  M.  THOMAS 

Miss  Cornelia  M.  Thomas  is  a  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  James  H.  Thomas  of  Shelbyville,  and  was 
born  in  Paris,  111.,  June  25,  1894.  She  took  a  training 
course,  was  graduated  with  honors,  and  was  on  pri- 
vate duty  in  her  profession  when  she  enlisted,  Oct., 
1918.  in  the  Army  Xurse  Corps.  Her  first  duty  in  the 
service  was  at  Camp  Custer,  Battle  Creek,  Mich., 
where  she  was  on  duty  during  the  terrible  scourge 
of  influenza.  She  received  the  rank  of  second  lieu- 
tenant during  her  service  there.  On  Dec.  6,  1918,  she 
was  transferred  to  United  States  General  Hospital 
Xo.  6,  Detroit  Mich.,  and  worked  in  the  operating 
room  there  until  the  hospital  was  closed  in  the  latter 


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MRS.  CARL  OLM  STEAD 


MRS.  FAE  ISENBERG  SEARCY 


ARTHUR  M.  CANNON 


part  of  July,  1919.  She  was  then  transferred  to 
United  States  Hospital  No.  28,  Fort  Sheridan,  111.. 
and  discharged  in  December,  1919. 

EMMA  PAUSCHERT 

Miss  Emma  Pauschert  was  born  in  Shelbyville 
June,  1890,  and  is  a  daughter  of  W.  R.  Pauschert, 
who  now  lives  in  Decatur,  111.  Miss  Pauschert  was 
a  nurse,  and  was  employed  as  Night  Superintendent 
of  Grant  Hospital,  Chicago,  when  she  enlisted,  Sept. 
1,  1918,  for  service  in  the  Army  Xurse  Corps,  and  was 
sent  to  Camp  Sherman,  Chillicothe,  Ohio.  After 
being  on  duty  there  for  nearly  two  months  she  was 
transferred  to  Albert  Hotel,  New  York  City,  where 
she  continued  her  service  until  Xov.  28,  1918,  when 
she  was  ordered  overseas  and  sailed  from  Hoboken, 
N.  J.,  aboard  the  U.  S.  S.  Mongolia.  She  arrived  at 
Brest,  France,  Dec.  6.  She  gave  splendid  service 
overseas  until  the  summer  of  1919,  when  she  was 
returned  with  Base  Hospital  Unit  Xo.  99  to  Xew 
York  City,  where  she  received  her  honorable  dis- 
charge on  July  6,  1919. 

GAIL  FREDE  TALLMAN 

Mrs.  Gail  Frede  Tallman,  wife  of  J.  Leverett  Tall- 
man,  was  born  in  Stewardson,  111.,  1895,  and  is  a 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Frede  of  that 
place.  She  was  married  to  Mr.  Tallman  on  May  27, 
1919.  Before  her  enlistment  she  was  employed  as  a 
newspaper  reporter  on  the  Decatur  Herald.  In  June, 
1918,  she  entered  Vassar  Training  Camp  for  Xurses 
at  Poughkeepsie,  X.  Y.,  for  three  months'  intensive 
course.  In  September  she  was  transferred  to  the 
Walter  Reed  General  Hospital  at  Washington.  D.  C., 
as  a  student  nurse  in  training,  and  was  discharged 
from  that  place  with  rank  of  student  nurse  after  a 
training  course  covering  a  total  period  of  nine 
months.  Though  not  permitted  to  see  overseas  serv- 
ice, she  nevertheless  did  a  great  deal  of  practical 
work  among  the  sick  and  wounded. 

ALTA  KOOXTZ 

Miss  Alta  Koontz  of  Stewardson,  was  one  of  the 
nurses  in  the  service.  She  was  called  to  Camp 
Grant  in  the  fall  of  1918,  and  gave  splendid  service 
there.  She  already  was  a  graduate  nurse,  and  had 
been  practicing  her  profession,  with  eminent  success. 


BLANCHE   McCOLLOM 

Miss  Blanche  McCollom,  formerly  of  Windsor, 
was  in  the  service  at  Xewport  Xews,  Va.,  for  a  period 
of  eight  months.  Following  her  release  from  army 
nursing  service  she  returned  to  Jacksonville,  111., 
where  she  is  engaged  as  a  school  nurse.  She  is 
a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  C.  S.  McCollom,  a  former 
pastor  of  the  Methodist  Church  at  Windsor. 


MARY  BUZZARD 

Miss  Mary  Buzzard  of  Cowden  was  a  Red  Cross 
nurse,  and  was  on  duty  at  a  base  hospital  near  Paris, 
France. 


GEXEVA  ELIZABETH   CASSTEVEXS 

There  was  one  of  the  nurses  who  went  from 
Shelby  County  to  tend  the  wounded  and  sick,  who 
gave  her  life  for  them.  This  was  Geneva  Elizabeth 
Casstevens,  a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  J.  Cass- 
tevens  of  near  Fancher,  who  died  Oct.  14,  1918.  at 
Liverpool,  England,  where  she  was  on  duty  at  Mili- 
tary Hospital  Xo.  40,  with  Unit  W  from  Springfield, 
111.,  under  command  of  Major  D.  M.  Ottis.  Over- 
worked, as  was  the  ordinary  lot  of  the  nurses  during 
the  influenza  epidemic.  Miss  Casstevens  contracted 
the  disease  and  in  her  weariness  of  body  hadn't  suffi- 
cient vitality  to  withstand  its  ravages.  She  was  sick 
but  a  week  and  a  day  before  her  brave  spirit  took  its 
flight.  Busy  and  happy  had  been  a  customary  con- 
dition, and  those  who  came  in  contact  with  her  from 
time  to  time  say  she  was  a  veritable  ray  of  sunshine. 

Her  popularity  among  those  who  knew  her  best 
was  attested  when  a  great  concourse  of  people  as- 
sembled at  the  little  United  Brethren  church  in  Fan- 
cher, one  day  in  the  summer  of  1919,  to  attend  serv- 
ices in  her  memory.  Truly  of  her  it  may  be  said, 
"she  hath  done  what  she  could." 


FAE  ISEXBERG  SEARCY 

After  completing  a  War  Workers'  Training 
course  at  Lake  Geneva,  Wis.,  in  Aug.,  1918,  Mrs.  Fae 
Isenberg  Searcy,  wife  of  Sergeant  Earl  B.  Searcy, 
received  appointment  from  the  National  War  Council1 
of.  the  Young  Women's  Christian  Association  to  as- 
sume duties  at  Camp  Funston,  Kansas,  as  Volunteer 
Assistant  in  recreation  activities.  Shortly  afterward 


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W.   F.  AlCHELE 


Y.  M.  C.  A.  SECRETARIES 
W.  H.  STORM  LYMAN  R.  HIATT  O.  S.  STORM 


WILSE  UNDERWOOD 


she  was  transferred  to  War  Camp  Community  Serv- 
ice in  the  capacity  of  hostess  to  the  soldiers  of  Camp 
Funston  and  Fort  Riley,  in  the  Soldiers'  Com- 
munity House  in  Manhattan,  Kansas.  She  remained 
there  until  February,  1919. 

This  tells  in  brief  the  service  of  Mrs.  Searcy  after 
her  formal  entrance  into  the  service;  but  before  her 
course  at  Lake  Geneva  she  had  been  in  Red  Cross 
training  at  St.  Louis,  where  she  also  had  served  in 
the  canteen  at  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  hut.  She  sang  in  va- 
rious cantonments,  and  in  Shelbyville,  where  she 
was  born  and  reared,  she  worked  diligently  with  the 
women  of  the  Red  Cross  and  materially  aided  activi- 
ties there.  During  the  summer  of  1919.  when  Ser- 
geant Searcy  was  stationed  in  Chicago  as  temporary 
secretary  of  the  American  Legion  of  Illinois,  Mrs. 
Searcy  still  further  gave  generously  of  her  service 
as  motor  driver,  transferring  wounded  men  to  and 
from  the  hospital,  taking  them  for  a  drive  and  in 
other  ways  ministering  to  those  in  need. 

ARTHUR  M.  CANNON 

Arthur  M.  Cannon,  native  of  Tower  Hill,  111., 
where  he  was  born  March  4,  1877,  a  son  of  the  late 
Robert  E.  Cannon  and  of  Mrs.  Julia  A.  Cannon,  still 
a  resident  of  Tower  Hill,  entered  the  War  Camp 
Community  service  at  Portland,  Ore.,  Aug.  15,  1918, 
and  is  still  engaged  in  that  work  in  a  very  respon- 
sible way.  Immediately  before  entering  that  service 
he  was  city  agent  for  a  life  insurance  company  at 
Portland,  Ore.,  where  from  1911  to  1917  he  was 
principal  of  the  Holladay  and  Couch  public  schools. 
His  career  as  a  teacher  began  at  Puckett,  southeast 
of  Tower  Hill,  then  from  1899  to  190S  he  was  prin- 
cipal of  schools  at  Tower  Hill;  from  1905  to  1906  at 
Rochester,  111.;  from  1907  to  1910  principal  of  the 
high  school  at  Shelbyville,  and  from  1910  to  1911 
principal  of  the  high  school  at  Eveleth,  Minn. 

Mr.  Cannon  entered  the  War  Camp  Community 
Service  as  representative  for  the  Clatsop  district  in 
Oregon,  with  headquarters  at  Astoria  and  in  charge 
of  spruce  production  centers  of  Astoria,  Seaside  and 
Tillamook,  Ore.,  and  near  the  coast  defense  forts, 
Stevens,  Columbia  and  Canby.  When  the  camps 
broke  up,  subsequent  to  the  signing  of  the  armistice, 
he  was  transferred  to  Seattle,  and  on  April  1.  1919, 
was  placed  in  charge  of  the  outside  work,  including 
clubs  at  a  number  of  points  near  Port  Townsend. 
The  work  is  now  being  transferred  from  W.  C.  C.  S. 
through  a  transition  period  from  Nov.  1  to  Feb.  1,  to 
Community  Service,  Inc.,  and  efforts  are  being  made 
to  form  local  Community  Service  committees  to  con- 
tinue the  work  indefinitely. 


Mr.  Cannon  is  married  and  has  six  children,  name- 
ly: Robert  S.,  Mabel  A.,  Arthur  M.,  Jr.,  Stewart  C., 
Julia  E.  and  Kesler  R.  Cannon. 

MRS.  CARL  OLMSTEAD 

Mrs.  Carl  Olmstead,  though  little  known  in  Shel- 
by County,  belongs  by  reason  of  her  marriage  to  a 
Shelby  County  soldier,  to  the  great  army  of  service 
people  of  this  county.  Mrs.  Olmstead's  service  was 
with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  consisted  largely  of  minis- 
tering to  the  soldiers  of  the  Texas  army  camps  in 
beautiful  song,  while  she  utilized  her  spare  time  in 
knitting  sweaters  and  doing  other  work  under  the 
direction  of  the  Red  Cross.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Mrs.  A.  Steinert,  1238  Wabash  Ave.,  Kansas  City, 
Mo.,  and  was  married  to  Carl  Olmstead  of  Shelby 
County  on  March  23,  1918,  while  the  latter  was  sta- 
tioned at  Camp  Logan.  The  next  day  her  husband 
left  that  camp,  and  while  he  was  absent  in  Europe, 
his  bride  passed  away,  her  death  occurring  March 
22,  1919,  at  her  home  in  San  Antonio.  Her  body  was 
taken  to  Kansas  City  for  burial. 

W.  H.  STORM 

Rev.  W.  H.  Storm  of  Findlay  served  the  better 
part  of  a  year  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  service,  most  of  the 
time  overseas.  He  offered  himself  for  that  work 
early  in  1918,  and  during  the  summer  was  accepted 
and  ordered  on  duty,  and  soon  was  in  France,  where 
he  served  capably  and  devotedly.  He  returned  home 
in  the  early  part  of  1919,  and  resumed  his  pastorate 
of  the  Christian  Church  at  Findlay,  from  which  he 
later  resigned.  Before  taking  up  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
duties,  he  was  actively  interested  in  the  boys  of  his 
home  town,  and  was  Scoutmaster  there.  A  com- 
plete record  of  Rev.  Mr.  Storm's  "Y"  service  was 
not  obtainable. 

W.  F.  AlCHELE 

Leaving  his  position  as  assistant  cashier  of  the 
Shelby  County  State  Bank  to  enter  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
service,  Wm.  F.  Aichele  had  expected  to  go  to  Chi- 
cago for  a  brief  training  period,  but  instead  was  or- 
dered at  once  to  San  Antonio,  Tex.,  where  he  entered 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Training  School  April  8,  1918.  He 
was  "Y"  secretary  at  Camp  Logan,  Houston,  Tex., 
from  May  1,  1918,  to  the  llth  of  June  following,  and 
at  Fort  Crockett,  Galveston,  Tex.,  from  June  11  to 
Oct.  23,  1918,  when  he  resigned  for  the  purpose  of 
getting  into  the  active  military  service.  This  course 
he  pursued,  enlisting  at  Shelbyville  Nov.  7,  1918. 


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CHARLES  R.  SHEPHERD 

Resigning  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Baptist 
church  of  Shelbyville  and  closing  his  work  there  on 
Sunday,  Sept.  22,  1918,  Rev.  Chas.  R.  Shepherd,  Ph. 
D.,  entered  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  service  and  was  ordered 
to  Galesburg,  Illinois,  where  he  was  in  charge  of  500 
boys.  This  service  was  the  alternative  for  regular 
military  service,  which  was  denied  him  by  reason  of 
the  fact  that  he  had  taken  out  his  first  naturalization 
papers  only,  and  therefore  could  get  into  the  service 
neither  of  the  United  States  nor  his  native  country, 
England.  Efforts  to  do  so  failed,  and  he  took  up  the 
"Y"  work,  in  which  he  did  splendid  service  for  many 
months. 

ORVILLE  S.  STORM 

After  repeated  attempts  to  get  into  military  serv- 
ice, but  meeting  only  rejection  on  physical  grounds, 
O.  S.  Storm  of  Shelbyville  made  application  for  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  duty  and  in  July,  1918,  received  notice  of  his 
appointment  by  the  War  Personnel  Board  of  the 
Central  Department  of  the  National  War  Work 
Council.  On  Aug.  1  he  was  ordered  to  the  "Y"  War 
College  at  Chicago,  where  after  a  period  of  training 
he  was  assigned,  Sept.  9,  1918,  to  Camp  Sherman, 
Chillicothe,  Ohio,  as  athletic  director  for  the  Quar- 
termaster's section.  In  the  following  December  he 
was  appointed  managing  editor  of  the  Camp  Sher- 
man News,  under  military  supervision,  and  retained 
that  post  until  his  discharge,  Aug.  14,  1919.  During 
the  influenza  epidemic  at  Camp  Sherman  Mr.  Storm 
volunteered  for  hospital  duty,  and  for  some  weeks 
ministered  almost  without  intermission  to  the  sick 
and  dying.  His  work  in  that  particular  line,  as  well 
as  the  manner  in  which  he  discharged  his  athletic 
and  editorial  duties,  elicited  warm  commendation 
from  military  and  "Y"  officers. 

Mr.  Storm  is  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I.  S.  Storm 
of  Shelbyville,  and  is  a  newspaper  man  of  many 
years'  experience. 

LYMAN  RAY  HI  ATT 

Lyman  Ray  Hiatt,  a  son  of  W.  P.  Hiatt  of  Stras- 
burg.  111.,  is  another  man  who  served  both  in  the 
military  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  At  the  outbreak  of  the 


war  he  was  finishing  student  work  in  the  Kansas 
State  Agricultural  College.  Acting  on  the  advice  of 
the  dean  of  the  college,  he  continued  agricultural 
work,  spending  the  summer  of  1917  on  Oakhurst 
farm,  belonging  to  one  of  the  editors  of  the  Breed- 
ers' Gazette.  Then  he  joined  the  staff  of  the  Country 
Work  Department  of  the  International  Committee  of 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  went  to  New  York  City,  where 
he  spent  four  months  in  helping  to  raise  funds  for 
the  war  work  activities  of  the  "Y."  Then  he  en- 
listed, and  served  in  the  army  until  Nov.  30,  1918. 
Following  his  discharge  he  took  charge  of  the  agri- 
cultural instruction  work  of  about  350  school  stu- 
dents in  Thief  River  F'alls,  Minn.  In  the  summer  of 
1919,  however,  he  reentered  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  and 
on  June  19  sailed  from  Seattle,  Wash.,  for  Vladivos- 
tok, Siberia,  where  he  is  still  doing  agricultural  dem- 
onstration work  in  Siberia  and  European  Russia  un- 
der the  auspices  of  the  National  War  Work  Council, 
Y.  M.  C.  A. 

WILSE  UNDERWOOD 

J.  Wilse  Underwood  was  and  still  is  in  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  service,  and  is  building  secretary  of  the  avia- 
tion camp,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Great  Lakes,  Illinois.  He 
enlisted  for  that  service  June  1,  1918,  and  was  as- 
signed to  the  Great  Lakes,  where  he  has  been  ever 
since,  giving  of  his  service  unstintedly  and  effectively 
to  the  boys  in  that  great  camp.  Not  the  least  of  his 
qualifications  for  his  work  is  his  splendid  voice, 
which  he  uses  in  song  to  the  delight  and  betterment 
of  those  who  hear  him.  He  has  been  leading  the 
singing  for  the  senior  chaplain's  service  on  Sunday 
mornings,  and  giving  himself  to  the  whole  work  with 
singular  devotion. 

Mr.  Underwood  was  born  at  Findlay,  111.,  in  1883, 
and  is  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  M.  Underwood  of 
that  place.  Before  entering  the  "Y"  service  he  was 
a  mail  carrier  and  salesman  at  Findlay.  On  May  19, 
1908,  he  married  Miss  Mabel  H.  Cash,  a  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Cash  of  Vandalia.  They  have 
three  children,  namely:  Elizabeth  Helen,  born  Jan. 
14,  1910;  Jay  Cash,  Aug.  12,  1912,  and  Lester  Wilse, 
March  21,  1919. 


Books   for   Service   Men 


Co-operating  in  the  country-wide  campaign  to 
supply  the  soldiers  in  camp  and  sailors  on  shipboard 
with  reading  matter,  the  Shelbyville  Free  Public  Li- 
brary and  Reading  Roomslaunched  a  drive  in  Au- 
gust, 1917,  for  the  collection  of  books  and  magazines 
for  the  service  men.  This  was  part  of  the  general 
campaign  undertaken  by  the  American  Library  As- 
sociation, of  which  the  local  library  is  a  member, 
and  resulted  in  the  collection  of  273  volumes.  These 
were  sent  to  the  St.  Louis  Public  Library  for  ship- 
ment to  their  ultimate  destination. 

The  second  local  drive  for  library  books  for  the 
service  men  was  put  on  in  April,  1918,  and  as  the 
result  of  a  week's  intensive  campaign  a  total  of  594 
books  was  collected.  Of  these,  161  were  works  of 
nontiction  and  431  were  books  of  fiction  by  popular 
authors.  In  the  week's  drive  valuable  assistance  was 
rendered  from  various  sources.  The  "books  for  sol- 
diers" campaign  was  featured  each  evening  in  a  re- 
vival meeting  that  was  in  progress  in  a  local  church, 
and  on  the  closing  day  of  the  campaign  the  Boy 
Scouts  made  a  house  to  house  canvass,  bringing  in 
the  books  in  baskets,  wheelbarrows,  gunnysacks  and 
automobiles. 


The  librarian  and  her  assistants  attached  pockets, 
typed  cards  for  the  pockets  and  for  catalogue  ref- 
erence, and  in  every  way  prepared  the  books  for 
service  and  circulation  as  though  they  were  to  go 
on  the  shelves  of  a  regular  library.  The  second  lot 
of  books  was  sent  to  Camp  Grant,  Rockford,  Illinois. 

The  drives  were  put  on  under  the  direction  of 
Miss  Grace  L.  Westervelt,  librarian,  and  the  second 
was  completed  under  the  supervision  of  her  succes- 
sor, Miss  Erva  J.  Davis,  the  present  librarian. 

More  Cheerful  Headlines 

Following  quickly  after  the  signing  of  the  armis- 
tice there  was  a  decided  change  in  newspaper  head- 
lines. The  "Safe  Over  Seas,"  "Somewhere  in 
France,"  "Escaped  the  Subs,"  and  similar  lines  that 
told  of  the  outward  voyage  of  American  service  men, 
gave  way  to  the  more  cheerful  "Lands  in  United 
States,"  "Overseas  Soldiers  Home,"  "Reception  for 
Returning  Men,"  or  similar  headlines  that  told  the 
story  of  the  war's  ending  and  the  home-coming  of 
the  boys  who  escaped  death  and  pestilence. 


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H   Company,    1  30th  United  States   Infantry 


SIXTEEN  years  of  loyal  service  at  home  and 
abroad — in  annual  encampment,  on  riot  duty,  in 
flood  rescue  work,  in  tornado  relief,  on  the 
Mexican  border  and  culminating  in  some  of  the 
hardest  lighting  on  various  fronts  of  the  European 
battle-torn  areas — has  characterized  the  activities  of 
H  Company,  a  military  organization  peculiarly  Shel- 
byville's  own. 

Product  of  the  patriotic  spirit  pervading  the  com- 
munity in  either  peace  or  war,  Company  H  was  or- 
ganized and  mustered  in  as  a  unit  of  the  Fourth 
Regiment,  Illinois  National  Guard,  in  February,  1903, 
and  retained  its  identity  as  an  arm  of  that  organiza- 
tion until  it  responded  to  the  call  for  broader  service 
and  became  a  part  of  the  Federal  military  machine 
Aug.  5.  1917. 

America's  entrance  to  the  World  War  found  the 
ranks  of  H  Company  greatly  depleted.  With  the 
declaration  of  war,  however,  a  local  campaign  for  re- 
cruits was  launched.  The  influence  and  active  aid  of 
business  and  professional  men  generally  were  en- 
listed, to  such  good  effect  that  when  the  company 
entrained  for  the  southern  training  camp,  the  names 
of  128  officers  and  men  were  on  the  roster  of  the 
company  and  regiment.  The  company  was  increased 
to  war  strength  by  the  addition  of  other  men  at 
Camp  Logan,  Texas. 

On  April  20,  1917,  Vance  Courtright  and  Charles  L.  Twiss 
were  elected  captain  and  first  lieutenant,  respectively,  to  succeed 
L.  X.  Stewardson  and  J.  Glen  Miller,  resigned.  Harry  Downs 
was  elected  second  lieutenant.  At  that  time  the  numerical 
strength  of  the  company  was  low,  and  but  fifteen  enlisted  men 
were  ready  and  willing  to  take  the  Federal  oath,  an  essential  of 
induction  into  the  broader  service.  These  men  were  Virgil 
Sharp.  Andy  M.  Hudson,  Harry  Downs,  Henry  Thompson,  Ray 
Edwards,  Ellsworth  Fought,  Gaylord  Terry,  Fred  Martin,  Roy 
Vanderpool,  Howard  Bridges,  Charles  Young,  George  Burnett, 
Orval  Rich,  Tom  Tull  and  Ralph  Conrad.  To  Vanderpool  it 
was  given  later  to  be  the  first  Shelby  County  man  to  make  the 
supreme  sacrifice  under  enemy  fire. 

Four  men  declined  to  join  with  their  comrades  in  taking  the 
larger  obligation,  but  to  the  credit  of  the  company  and  com- 
munity let  it  be  written,  when  on  Aug.  26,  1917,  the  opportunity 
was  given  for  any  who  wished  to  withhold  himself  from  any 
but  the  State  service,  not  a  man  in  the  Shelbyville  company 
failed  nor  hesitated  in  giving  himself  unreservedly  to  the  service 
of  mankind  in  the  war  to  make  the  whole  world  safe  for  democ- 
racy. 

ROSTER  OF  OFFICERS 


II  Company's  officers 
mustered  out  of  service  in 
Captains: 

R.  T.  Eddy 

J.   Wm.    Klauser 

L.   X.  Stewardson 

Vance   Courtright 

Fred    Beard 
First    Lieutenants: 

J.   Wm.   Klauser 

Vance  Courtright 

L.  X.  Stewardson 

J.  Glen  Miller 

("has.  L.  Twiss 

Harry    Downs 

Morris   Munhall 

Thomas   McDonough 

Paul  Howard 

Toe   Ryan 

Henry  Johnson 


from    its    organization    until    it    was 
the   spring  of   1919,  were: 
Second   Lieutenants: 

Geo.  L.  Dearing 

Vance    Courtright 

A.  L.  Yantis 

J.  W.  Lantz 

L.   N.    Stewardson 

J.   Glen  Miller 

Chas.  L.  Twiss 

Harry    Downs 

Howard  Bridges 

George    Burnett 

George  Stretch 

Thomas  Carroll 

Frank  W.  Rawalt 

Thomas  McDonough 

Morris   Munhall 


REGIMEXTAL  OFFICERS  FROM  H  COMPAXY 
Major  J.   William   Klauser. 

Second    Lieutenant    Battalion    Quartermaster    L.    F.    Ake 
head. 

First    Lieutenant   Battalion   Adjutant  Vance   Courtright. 
First  Lieutenant  Battalion  Adjutant  J.  Glen  Miller. 
Regimental   Color  Sergeant  Vance  Courtright. 
Regimental  Color  Sergeant  Owen  Thomas. 
Regimental   Color  Sergeant  John   Wilburn. 
Regimental  Ordnance  Sergeant  L.  F.  Akenhead. 
Regimental   Commissary  Sergeant  L.   F.   Akenhead. 
Major  F.   P.  Auld,  Surgeon. 
Captain  C.  F.   Lauer,  Chaplain. 
Captain  H.  L.  Ruff,  Regimental  Adjutant. 
First  Lieutenant  O.  C.  Brown,  Medical  Corps. 

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SERVICE  RECORD  OF  COMPAXY  II 
The   complete   service  record   of   Company   H   is  as   follows : 

Mustered    into    service    by    Lieutenant    Colonel    Ewert,    Feb. 
17,   1903. 

Dedication  World's  Fair,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  April  29  to  May  1, 
1903. 

Encampment,    Camp    Lincoln,    Springfield,    111.,    Aug.    22-29, 


1903. 


1904. 


Encampment,    Camp    Lincoln,    Springfield,    111.,    Aug.    13-20, 


World's   Fair,   St.   Louis,   Mo.,   Aug.   20-26,    1904. 
Encampment,    Camp    Lincoln,    Springfield,    111.,    Aug.    5-12, 


Encampment,    Camp    Lincoln,    Springfield,    111.,    July    28    to 
Aug.  4,    1906. 

Encampment,    Camp    Lincoln,    Springfield,    111.,    July    20-27, 


1907. 


Escort     President    Theo.     Roosevelt,     Cairo,     111.,     Oct.     2-3, 


1907. 

Riot   duty,    Springfield,    111.,    Aug.    15-19,    1908. 

Maneuvers,  Fort  Benjamin  Harrison,  Ind.,  Sept.  11-22, 
1908. 

Escort,  Adjutant  General  Scott's  funeral,  Olney,  111.,  April 
7,  1909. 

Encampment,  Camp  Lincoln,  Springfield,  111.,  July  10-17, 
1909. 

Riot  duty,   Cairo,  111.,  Nov.   11-15,   1909. 

Riot  duty,   Cairo,   111.,   Feb.   20-28,    1910. 

Maneuvers,   Camp  Deneen,   Peoria,   111.,   Aug.  20-27,    1910. 

Riot  duty,    Taylorville,    111.,    Feb.    24-28,    1911. 

Riot  duty,   Benld,  111.,   March  21-23,   1911. 

Encampment,  Camp  Lincoln,  Springfield,  111.,  Aug.  12-19, 
1911. 

Encampment,  Camp  Lincoln,  Springfield,  111.,  July  27  to 
Aug.  3,  1912. 

Centennial  celebration,   Edwardsville,  111.,   Sept.   15-17,    1912. 

Riot   duty,    Salem,    111.,    March    14-16,    1913. 

Flood  duty,    Mound  City,   111.,   March   31   to  April    16,    1913. 

Encampment,  Camp  Lincoln,  Springfield,  111.,  Aug.  17-24, 
1913. 

General  Logan  Memorial,  Murphysboro,  111.,  Aug.  2-4, 
1914. 

Encampment,  Camp  Lincoln,  Springfield,  111..  Aug.  16-23, 
1914. 

Riot  duty,  Johnston  City,   111.,  June   10-13,  1915. 

Encampment,  Camp  Lincoln,  Springfield,  111.,  Aug.  15-22, 
1915. 

Called   for   Mexican   border   service,  June    19,    1916. 

Mustered  into  Federal  service,  Springfield,  111.,  June  29, 
1916. 

Arrived  Fort  Sam  Houston,  San  Antonio,  Texas,  July  5, 
1916. 

Encampment,  New  Braunfels,  Texas,  July  26  to  Aug.  4, 
1916. 

Encampment,  Leon  Springs,  Texas,  Aug.  15  to  Sept.  1, 
1916. 

Division  practice  march  to  Austin,  Texas,  Sept.  15  to  Oct. 
2,  1916. 

Left   Camp   Wilson,   San   Antonio,  Texas,   Feb.   26,    1917. 

Arrived   Fort   Sheridan,    Chicago,    111.,   March    1,    1917. 

Mustered  out  of  Federal  service,  Fort  Sheridan,  Chicago, 
111.,  March  15,  1917. 

Cyclone  relief  duty,  Mattoon,  111.,  May  26  to  June  15,   1917. 

Riot  duty,   East  St.   Louis,   111.,  July  2-22,   1917. 

Mustered  into  Federal  service  for  the  World  War,  July  25, 
1917. 

Drafted  into  Federal  service  by  proclamation  of  President 
Wilson,  Aug.  5,  1917. 

Entrained  for  Camp  Logan,  Houston,  Texas,  Oct.  9,  1917. 
Entrained  at   Camp   Logan   for  overseas  duty,   May   3,    1918. 
Arrived  at  Brest,   France,   May  24,   1918. 

Embarked  at  Brest,  France,  for  the  United  States,  May 
11,  1919. 

Arrived  in  the  United  States,  May  20,  1919. 
Mustered  out  of  Federal  service  at  Camp   Grant,   Rockford, 
111.,  May  30  and  31,  1919. 


II  COMPANY'S  MOVEMENTS  OVERSEAS 

The  story  of  H  Company's  movements  in  Europe  is  one  of 
activity.  It  is  told  officially  in  the  Report  of  Operations  made 
by  Colonel  John  V.  Clinnin,  Commanding  Officer,  1 30th  In- 
fantry, to  General  George  Bell,  Jr.,  Commanding  General,  33d 
Division,  American  E,  F.,  under  date  of  Nov.  20,  1918. 

From  that  report  the  movements  of  H  Company,  a  unit  of 
the  Second  Hattalion,  130th  Infantry,  is  traced  as  follows: 

The  130th  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  formerly  4th  Illinois  Infan- 
try, N.  G.,  was  drafted  into  the  United  States  service  by  call 
of  the  President,  July  25,  1917,  and  trained  at  C'amp  Logan, 
Houston,  Texas.  Entrained  3d  May,  1918,  for  Camp  Upton, 
Yaphank,  Long  Island. 

Sailed  from  Hoboken,  New  Jersey,  16th  May,  1918,  on  the 
U.  S.  S.  Agamemnon,  landing  at  Brest,  France,  Slay  24,  1918; 
in  billets  at  Pentanazt-n  Barracks  until  May  30:  moved  to  Oiso 
mont,  France,  Second  Battalion  billeted  at  Ercourt.  Began 
preliminary  training  for  service  at  the  British  front. 

Moved  to  billets  near  Eu,  France,  June  8 ;  Second  Bat- 
talion at  Dargnies,  engaging  in  intensive  training  under  British 
officers. 

June  21,  started  on  march  to  the  Long  Area,  where  it  ar- 
rived in  the  evening  of  the  22d ;  Second  Battalion  at  Villers- 
sous-Ailly.  Here  the  practical  training  was  developed  to  in- 
clude use  of  all  arms. 

July  1 7,  marched  to  Australian  Corps  Area ;  Second  Bat- 
talion being  placed  in  the  Card  System,  part  of  the  Army  system 
of  trenches,  in  the  Australian  Corps  area  north  of  Querrieu, 
training  in  trench  warfare. 

July  30,  Second  Battalion  relieved  from  C'ard  System  of 
trenches,  marching  to  Bois-de-Mai  Woods,  replacing  Third  Bat- 
talion. 

Night  of  6th  and  7th  of  August  marched  to  Moillens  Wood 
to  join  British  Corps.  Later,  attachments  made  from  First  and 
Second  Battalions  to  the  18th  Division,  B.  E.  F.,  in  the  line 
before  Albert.  Reliefs  for  Second  Battalion  carried  out  on 
night  of  16th  and  17th  of  August.  Continued  to  relieve  bat- 
talions of  18th  Division,  B.  E.  F.,  in  front  line  before  Albert  and 
village  of  Dernancourt  up  to  Aug.  20. 

Total  casualties  of  1 30th  Infantry  while  operating  on  Brit- 
ish front,  Aug.  8-24,  were:  Officers  killed,  0;  wounded,  1.  Other 
ranks  killed.  6;  wounded,  28. 

Aug.  20,  1918,  transferred  to  American  army,  covering 
movement  of  said  organization  from  Vignacourt,  Aug.  24-25,  ar- 
riving at  Ligny-en-Barrois  Aug.  28;  Second  Battalion  at  Nont- 
le-Petit :  Aug.  31,  the  Second  moved  to  Morlaincourt. 

Night  of  Sept.  5-6  moved  from  these  billets  in  auto  trucks 
to  Blercourt,  remaining  in  camp  near  town  of  Bois-des-C'lair 
Chenes  until  Sept.  16,  when  regiment  marched  to  Bois-du- 
Bethelainville,  occupying  billets  and  dugouts  in  this  area  until 
night  of  Sept.  21-22,  when  it  marched  to  Moulin  Brule  and 
Bois-de-Yille,  remaining  in  billets  there  until  beginning  of  offen- 
sive north  of  Yerdun,  Sept.  24-25. 

Under  orders  issued  Sept.  23,  130th,  less  First  Battalion, 
marched  from  Bois-de-Ville  to  designated  point  for  Fort  de 
Bourrus,  arriving  in  position  1  a.  m.,  Sept.  26,  where  said 
organization  was  in  place  at  "H"  hour.  In  pursuance  of  mes- 
sage received  12:30  p.  m.,  same  day,  marched  via  Chattincourt 
to  Le  Mort  Ilomtne  and  reported  to  the  Advance  P.  C.,  mid- 
way between  Le  Mort  Homme  and  Hill  304 ;  under  cover  of 
smoke  screen  reached  Le  Mort  Homme  without  casualty,  and 
bivouacked  for  the  night.  This  point  being  under  heavy  fire, 
disposition  of  battalions  was  made,  the  Second  occupying  a 
trench  system  south  of  Chattincourt,  thus  saving  many  casual- 
ties, as  Chattincourt  was  bombarded  continuously  through  the 
night. 

Morning  of  27th  the  regiment  was  marched  by  devious 
route  and  part  of  the  way  through  shell  holes  in  single  file  to 
Bethincourt. 

The  130th  marched  Sept.  28  to  Bois-D'en-Dela  and  biv- 
ouacked;  at  5:30  a.  m.,  Sept.  29th,  relieved  32()th  Infantry,  the 
Second  Battalion  being  in  reserve  along  north  edge  of  Wood 
sector,  Bois-de-la-Cote-Lemont.  This  sector  was  held  by  1 30th 
until  Oct.  15.  Casualties  in  this  sector:  27  other  ranks  killed; 
9  officers  and  135  other  ranks  wounded,  principally  from  shell 
tire,  said  sector  being  under  constant  artillery  fire. 

Oct.  9-10,  Second  Battalion  relieved  129th  Infantry  in  the 
defense  line  in  the  Bois-de-Dannevoux,  taking  over  the  Danne- 
voux  sector  of  the  defense  and  outpost  lines.  The  regiment, 
less  Third  Battalion,  held  entire  line  from  bend  of  Meuse  river 
east  of  Dannevoux  to  the  western  edge  of  the  Bois-de-la-Cote- 
Lemont. 

The  regiment  captured  a  great  amount  of  arms,  ammuni- 
tion and  other  paraphernalia. 

Relief  of  the  130th  Infantry  and  its  retirement  to  the 
trench  system  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Meuse,  south  of  Con- 
senvoye,  accomplished  without  casualty  Oct.  14  and  15. 

Oct.  17,  Second  Battalion  relieved  Third  Battalion  in  the 
left  half  sector  Boise-de-Chaume. 

Night  of  Oct.  20-21,  130th  Infantry  relieved  by  the  Second 
Colonial  Regiment  (French),  the  regiment  marching  from  the 
Bois-de-Chaume  area  to  the  Bois  Bourrus.  Casualties  while  oc- 


cupying positions  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Meuse  and  while  tak- 
ing part  in  the  attacks  with  the  129th  and  131st  Infantry,  be- 
tween Oct.  10  and  16:  23  other  ranks  killed;  3  officers  and  66 
other  ranks  wounded. 

Oct.  22,  130th  Infantry  arrived  at  Rupt-en-Woevre. 
Under  orders  of  Oct.  23  and  25,  the  130th  Infantry  relieved 
the  313th  Infantry  in  the  Connecticut  sub-sector,  the  Second 
Battalion  relieving  the  First  Battalion  of  the  313th  with  two 
companies  in  the  Bois-de-Combres  and  two  companies  in  the 
Bois-de-les-Eparges. 

The  operations  of  the  130th  Infantry  from  Oct.  25  to  Nov. 
11  consisted  in  developing  the  outpost  system  in  the  Connecticut 
sub-sector  and  strengthening  the  defense  system  by  digging 
trenches  and  wiring  positions,  also  active  patrolling  in  order  to 
gain  contact  with  the  enemy  and  conducting  raids  on  strong 
points  of  the  enemy  at  Chateau  d'Aulnois;  also  a  raid  by  the 
^-econd  Battalion  on  the  enemy  strong  point  at  Marcheville. 
Preliminary  to  this  raid  by  the  Second,  a  reconnaissance  was 
made  of  the  Evergreen  Wood  and  position  near  Bussy,  which 
was  occupied  by  a  strong  patrol  on  8th  November,  said  patrol 
capturing  one  of  the  enemy  and  killing  one  officer  and  13  other 
ranks  at  this  point,  maintaining  the  position  and  affording  a 
"jump-off"  line  for  the  attack  of  Nov.  10. 

<  In  Nov.  10  the  Second  Battalion,  under  the  command  of 
Captain  Albert  II.'  Graven horst  of  Effingham,  111.,  attacked 
Marcheville  with  the  aid  of  an  artillery  barrage,  capturing  6  offi- 
cers, 85  other  ranks,  and  killing  a  great  number  of  the  enemy, 
who  were  not  counted,  owing  to  a  counter  attack  and  gas  bar- 
rage, which  drove  our  forces  into  the  trenches  at  the  southern 
edge  of  the  town.  The  village  of  Marcheville  was  held  by  the  Sec- 
ond Battalion  and  afforded  a  covering  point  for  the  attack  of  the 
llth  of  November,  1918.  Four  heavy  and  eight  light  machine 
puns  were  captured  in  the  raid  on  Marcheville,  and  one  six-inch 
Howitzer  in  the  vicinity  of  Cote  233. 

In  the  disposition  of  the  130th  Infantry  for  the  general 
attack  at  5  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  the  llth  of  November, 
the  Second  Battalion,  130th,  and  First  Battalion,  129th  Infantry, 
under  command  of  Commanding  Officer  of  the  130th,  constituted 
the  right  column  in  advance  from  Herbeuville,  Wadonville,  St. 
Hilaire. 

At  8:21  a.  in.,  orders  were  received  to  cease  tiring  and 
hold  positions,  as  the  armistice  had  been  signed. 

Total  casualties  from  Oct.  24  to  Nov.  II,  1918,  while  oc- 
cupying the  Connecticut  sector  and  in  raids  and  patrols,  were 
as  follows: 

Officers  Other  Ranks 

Killed      0  33 

Wounded     12  306 

Captured   by    the   enemy 0 

Missing     0  3 

While  engaged  with  the  enemy  in  the  Bois-de-la-C  ote- Le- 
mon t,  the  130th  Infantry  advanced  two  kilometers  in  the  direc- 
tion of  the  town  of  Brieulles;  also  advanced  from  southern  edge 
of  Bois-de-Chaume  and  Bois-du-Plat  Chene  to  a  depth  of  two 
and  one-half  kilometers :  also  an  advance  of  three  kilometers 
while  occupying  the  Connecticut  sub -sector. 

Prisoners  taken:   7  officers,  107  other  ranks. 
Materials    captured :    19    light    and    17    heavy    machine    guns 
and   one  six-inch   field   piece. 

Total  casualties  while  operating  on  the  British  front  around 
Corbie,  Morlancourt,  Albert  and  Dernancourt,  from  July  20, 
1918,  to  Aug.  24,  1918: 

Officers   Other  Ranks 

Killed      0  6 

Wounded     1  28 

Total  casualties  while  operating  in  the  Bois-de-Sept  Sarges, 
Bois-de-la-Cote-Lemont,  Bois-der Dannevoux,  on  the  west  bank 
of  the  Meuse,  between  Sept.  26,  1918,  and  Oct.  15,  1918: 

Officers  Other  Ranks 

Killed     0  27 

Wounded     9  135 

Total  casualties  while  operating  north  of  Con  senvoye  on 
east  bank  of  the  Meuse,  in  the  Bois-de-Chaume  and  Bois-du- 
Plat  Chene,  between  Oct.  9  and  Oct.  21: 

Officers  Other  Ranks 

Killed     0  23 

Wounded     3  £6 

Total  casualties  while  operating  in  the  Connecticut  sub- 
sector  of  the  Troyon  sector,  between  the  dates  of  23d  October 
and  llth  November,  1918: 

Officers  Other  Ranks 

Killed     0  33 

Wounded      12  308 

Captured  by  the  enemy    0  11 

M  issing    0  3 

Total  casualties  reported  to  Nov.  20,  1918,  as  included  in 
report  of  Colonel  Clinnin,  from  July  20,  1918,  to  Nov.  12,  1918: 

Officers  Other  Ranks 

Killed     0  89 

Wounded     25  537 

Captured   by    the   enemy    0  11 

Missing    0 

During  the  operations  in  which  this  regiment  was  engaged 
there  were  no  tanks,  gas  troops  nor  troops  making  use  of  aux- 
iliary weapons  other  than  the  artillery  used  in  co-operation  with 
this  command. 


Page    One   Hundred    Two 


COMPANY  H  MEN  CITED 

Under  authority  of  General  Orders  48,  War  Department, 
April  9,  1919,  the  following  officers  and  enlisted  men  of  the 
130th  Infantry  are  cited  for  gallantry  in  action  against  the  en- 
emy, and  each  officer  and  enlisted  man  is  entitled  to  wear  a 
silver  star  upon  the  service  ribbon  for  Victory  Medal : 

FIELD  AND   STAFF 
Captain  Harmon   L.  Ruff,  Shelbyville. 

First  Lieutenant  Battalion  Adjutant  J.  Glen  Miller,  Shel- 
byville. 

COMPANY  H 

First   Sergeant  Alma  White,  Tower   Hill. 
Corporal   Tom   Parker,   Shelbyville. 
Sergeant    David    Sharrock,    Stonington. 
Mechanic   John    Dietz,    Shelbyville. 
Private    Susa    Risser,    Strasburg. 

HEADQUARTERS    COMPANY 

Regimental  Sergeant  Major  Lewis  Albert  Jackson,  Shelby- 
ville. 

This  citation  was  issued  at  command  of  Major  General 
Cell,  and  signed  by  W.  H,  Simpson,  Lieutenant  Colonel,  Gen- 
eral Staff,  Chief  of  Staff. 

The  Thirty -third  Division  was  the  only  division  in  the 
A.  E.  F.,  and  therefore  in  American  history,  which  fought 
with  the  British,  the  Americans  and  the  French.  It  is  the 
only  division  the  officers  and  men  of  which  have  been  deco^ 
rated  by  a  King  of  England  in  person.  From  June  22  until 
Nov.  11,  1918,  a  period  of  nearly  five  months,  there  were 
only  18  days  when  the  division  as  whole,  or  in  part,  was  not 
actually  holding  a  portion  of  the  Allied  line.  Tnat  its  disci- 
pline was  almost  perfect  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  from 
the  time  it  left  Texas  until  the  armistice  no  enlisted  man  was 
tried  by  a  General  Court  Martial,  and  only  two  officers  were 
so  tried. 

A  New  Company  H 

Tn  the  summer  of  1918  a  genuine  but  abortive  attempt 
to  form  a  new  National  Guard  company,  to  take  the  name 
and  place  in  the  State  of  the  former  organization  which  had 
been  graduated  into  the  Federal  service  and  was  then  over- 
seas with  the  American  Expeditionary  Forces,  was  made.  Rep- 
resentations were  made  that  Shelbyville  might  have  a  place 
in  the  new  military  forces  under  organization  by  the  State  of 
Illinois  for  domestic  service,  and  accordingly  a  mass  meeting 
was  called  at  the  city  hall  for  Tuesday,  May  21,  1918,  Mayor 
F.  P.  Bivins  presiding.  A  brief  statement  of  the  situation 
was  made,  and  when  the  roster  was  opened  more  than  half 
a  hundred,  many  of  them  business  and  professional  men  of 
the  city,  without  hesitation  offered  themselves  as  members 
of  the  proposed  company. 

An  enrollment  committee,  consisting  of  Geo.  H.  Waters,  A. 
L.  Yamis,  D.  Leslie  Davis,  H.  D.  Sparks  and  C.  W.  Wag- 
goner, was  appointed,  and  as  a  result  of  its  efforts,  ably  abetted 
by  the  patriotic  spirit  prevailing  in  the  community,  121  men 
signed  the  roll  within  a  few  weeks.  Virtual  promise  was  made 
by  the  state  military  authorities  that  the  Shelbyville  company 
would  be  designated  by  the  letter  "H"  and  given  a  place  in 
the  Ninth  Illinois  regiment.  The  company-in-the-making  at 
once  began  drilling,  and  for  several  months  continued  is  prep- 
aration for  military  service. 

Officers   were   elected,   as   follows: 

Captain — J.    William    Klauser. 

First    Lieutenant — A.    L.    Yantis. 

Second    Lieutenant — Chas.    W.    Waggoner. 

Captain    Klauser    made    the    following   appointments : 

First  Sergeant — L.    N.   Stewardson. 

Company    Clerk — L.    C.    Westervelt. 

Bugler — Gus   Pundt. 

Despite  these  preparations  and  the  enthusiasm  of  the  men 
interested,  the  plan  of  getting  a  National  Guard  company  for 
Shelbyville  failed,  as  before  the  organization  could  be  accepted 
by  the  State  the  selective  service  made  such  inroads  on  the 
list  of  members  of  the  tentative  company  that  a  sufficient 
number  to  constitute  a  company  was  not  available. 


Field  Day  and  Concert 

One  of  the  most  interesting  events  of  war-time 
in  Shelby  County  was  the  Field  Day  and  Military 
Band  Concert,  held  at  Forest  Park,  Shelbyville,  on 
Monday.  Aug.  27,  1917.  The  Fourth  Regiment  Mili- 
tary Band,  under  the  leadership  of  Captain  R.  J. 
Heinz  of  Decatur,  led  H  Company,  Fourth  Illinois 
Infantry,  from  the  armory  on  Morgan  street  through 
the  business  district  and  to  the  park,  where  a  pro- 
gram of  varied  and  pleasing  character  was  given. 


A  number  of  the  soldiers  engaged  in  a  series  of 
"stunts,"  and  one  rookie  was  "initiated"'  by  means  of 
a  blanket-tossing  process.  Blanket  rolls,  showing 
the  complete  equipment  of  soldiers  on  the  march, 
were  exhibited  at  various  points  on  the  ground,  and 
two  Lewis  machine  guns,  brought  here  from  Diet- 
rich, 111.,  where  there  was  a  machine  gun  company, 
were  demonstrated  by  their  crews. 

The  crowning  feature  of  the  afternoon  program 
was  the  battalion  review,  which  took  place  on  a  field 
adjacent  to  the  park.  H  Company  was  divided  into 
three  sections  to  represent  the  three  companies  of  a 
battalion.  Major  William  Klauser  of  Shelbyville. 
commanding  the  Third  Battalion,  reviewed  the  bat- 
talion and  the  ceremonial  maneuvers,  with  the  strains 
of  martial  music  and  the  marching  band  of  men,  with 
the  machine  guns  bringing  up  the  rear,  was  an  im- 
pressive sight. 

In  the  evening  the  Fourth  Regiment  Band  gave  a 
full  concert  in  the  auditorium,  and  "Jerry"  Germain, 
a  former  V.  M.  C.  A.  secretary  who  resigned  his 
position  to  come  to  Shelbyville  and  enlist  with  H 
Company  for  foreign  service,  gave  a  travelogue,  in 
which  the  audience  was  given  a  glimpse  of  the  South 
and  the  army  camps  there  during  1916  and  1917,  when 
Illinois  troops  were  there  on  border  duty. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  travelogue,  the  climax 
of  the  day  was  reached  in  the  soldiers'  realistic  pres- 
entation of  "A  Xight  in  Camp."  The  sentry,  the 
"great  American  game,"  guitar  and  mandolin  music 
and  vocal  quartettes,  "taps,"  and  other  features  of 
the  camp  life  were  presented,  while  at  the  close 
Bugler  Henry  Thompson  gave  the  various  bugle 
calls. 

The  Scourge 

The  terrible  scourge  of  influenza  and  pneumonia 
that  swept  America  and  Europe  in  the  fall  and  win- 
ter of  1918  is  too  indelibly  impressed  upon  the  minds 
of  everyone  to  need  recording.  It  greatly  augmented 
the  horrors  of  war.  and  took  its  toll  of  lives  among 
soldiers  and  civilians  alike.  It  slew  and  slaughtered, 
counting  its  victims  in  greater  numbers  than  those 
who  fell  before  shot  and  shell  and  gas. 

The  number  of  fatal  cases  in  Shelby  County  was 
singularly  small,  compared  with  other  areas,  but  out 
in  training  camp  and  overseas  Shelby  County  boys 
found  it  as  deadly  an  enemy  as  the  Hun.  Xearly  two 
score  soldiers  from  this  county  were  among  its  vic- 
tims. 

Shelby  County  physicians  and  nurses  rallied  to  the 
call  for  help.  A  dozen  or  more  of  the  doctors  of  the 
county  were  in  the  service,  many  of  them  responding 
specifically  to  the  call  for  service  in  combatting  the 
"flu."  Shelbyville  was  left  with  only  three  general 
practitioners  and  one  osteopathic  physician.  Other 
towns  of  the  county  were  affected  in  like  proportion, 
but  while  their  colleagues  battled  strenuously  with 
the  plague  in  the  camps,  the  doctors  who  remained 
at  home  gave  equally  valiant  service  in  stemming 
the  tide  of  the  scourge,  and  their  efforts  were  as 
heroic  and  their  successes  as  great  as  were  those 
of  the  men  to  whom  it  was  given  to  serve  more 
spectacularly  perhaps. 

Xurses  trained  and  untrained  also  joined  forces 
against  the  common  enemy,  and  worked  tirelessly  to 
alleviate  the  distress  of  the  afflicted  and  save  them 
from  the  fatal  consequences  of  the  disease  that  was 
so  terrifyingly  baffling.  Public  gatherings  were  pro- 
hibited, every  known  precaution  was  ordered  by  the 
health  authorities,  and  all  in  all  the  situation  in 
Shelby  County  was  surprisingly  better  than  in  most 
other  places  of  similar  population. 


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YARBROUGH 


SPRINKLE 


RICHARDS 


BLUE 


GASTON 


Typical  Shelby  County  Yanks 


The  records  of  the  men  above  pictured  are  sub- 
mitted apart  from  their  comrades  in  arms  to  illus- 
trate that  the  spirit  of  76  and  '12  and  '61  still  lives — 
and  that  it  is  confined  to  no  special  line  nor  division 
of  service.  Regulars,  national  army,  national  guards 
and  marines — cook,  runner,  artilleryman,  grenadier, 
doughboy  and  all-round  soldier  performed  with  the 
fortitude  and  never-say-die  lighting  spirit  and  ginger 
that  has  been  the  heritage  of  real  Yanks  through  all 
the  years.  Some  got  to  France  early  in  the  game, 
some  were  delayed,  but  they  all  did  their  duty — and 
more.  Without  deducting  one  whit  from  the  honor 
accorded  all  who  wore  the  khaki  or  blue  or  forest 
green,  we  present  the  simple  but  thrilling  records  of 
these  comrades. 

BLUE,  RALPH  NORMAN  Private 

Stewardson.  111.  Co.  H,  18th  Inf.  1st  Div. 

Born  Nov.  17,  1895,  Stewardson,  111.;  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Solomon  Blue;  laborer;  enl.  Aug.  2,  1917,  Mattoon,  111.;  army  ; 
assigned  to  Co.  L  59th  Inf. ;  left  U.  S.  with  replacement  Bn.  for 
the  I8th  Inf.;  was  with  Co.  II,  18th  Inf.  during  the  war:  sailed 
from  Hoboken,  X.  J.,  Oct.  30,  1917;  transport  Mt.  Vernon ; 
landed  at  Brest,  France,  Nov.  12,  1917;  went  to  trenches  Feb. 
1,  1918,  remained  until  armistice  was  signed;  at  Lorraine  front, 
Somme  front,  Verdun,  Battle  of  Cantigny,  Soissons,  Meuse 
Argonne.  Argonne  Forest ;  received  shrapnel  wound  through 
left  shoulder  June  13,  1918,  on  Somme  front  and  in  right  wrist 
July  18,  1918,  at  battle  of  Soissons,  was  in  hospital;  1st  division 
was  cited  several  times,  was  cited  Oct.  4th  and  5th  on  Argonne 
front,  also  awarded  Croix  de  Guerre;  particular  work,  grenadier 
and  runner;  returned  with  Casual  Co.  6937;  discharged  at  Camp 
Grant,  July  21,  1919. 

In  Blue's  division  were  Klmer  Flowers  and  Glen  Bales,  of 
Shelbyville,  whose  records  are  given  elsewhere,  and  also  Glen 
Tolley,  of  Moweaqua,  who  as  a  corporal  reorganized  his  com- 
pany after  all  officers  and  ranking  non-coms  above  him  had  be- 
come casualties.  This  handful  of  men  held  the  line  with  no 
troops  in  support.  For  this  he  was  recommended  for  a  dis- 
tinguished service  cross. 

SPRINKLE,  CLARENCE  E  Corporal 

Pana,  111.  17  F.  A.,  2  Div. 

Born  Dec.  4,  1895,  Shelby  Co.;  son  O.  J.  Sprinkle,  Pana; 
farmer;  enl.  Aug.  22,  1917;  Decatur;  sent  Jefferson  Bks. ;  trfd. 
C.  Robinson;  sailed  Newport  News,  Feb.  16,  1918;  landed  Bor- 
deaux :  sent  directly  to  front,  active  service  from  Mch.  25  until 
armistice ;  Toul,  Tryon,  Chateau-Thierry,  Soissons,  Marbache, 
St.  Mihiel,  Meuse-Argonne,  Champagne;  cannoneer;  at  Chateau- 
Thierry  in  June,  knowing  that  two  of  his  comrades  were  buried 
by  an  exploding  shell,  without  regard  for  personal  safety,  he 
immediately  started  digging  them  out  under  severe  bombard- 
ment. French  Croix  de  Guerre  conferred  by  Marshal  Petain  on 
Nov.  28.  Returned  I'.  S.  17  F.  Art.,  2  Div.;  discharged  C. 
Grant,  Aug.  14,  1919. 


RICHARDS,  ELMER 
Strasburg,  111. 


Cook 
Co.  D,  354  Inf.,  89  Div. 


Born  Feb.  13,  1892,  near  Strasburg;  farmer;  son  of  S.  C. 
and  Mary  Richards,  Patroni,  Col.;  enl.  Apr.  30,  1918,  Nevada, 
Mo.:  sent  C.  Funston,  Kas.  ;  assigned  Co.  I),  354  Inf.,  89  Div.; 
sailed  New  York  June  3,  1918;  in  active  service  from  June  2 1 
until  Armistice ;  Luch  Sector,  St.  Mibiel  offensive,  Euvezin 
Sector ;  Meuse-Argonne  offensive ;  reed  D.  S.  C.,  Medal  Mili- 
taire,  Croix  de  Guerre  with  palm  ;  his  American  citation  reads : 


For  extraordinary  heroism  near  Xammes,  France,  Sept.  18, 
1918,  knowing  that  on  account  of  the  intense  shelling  it  would 
be  impossible  to  supply  men  in  the  front  lines  with  rations, 
Private  Richards,  in  a  wounded  condition,  procured  a  quantity 
of  rations  and  carrying  them  to  the  line  through  heavy  shell  fire 
personally  distributed  to  each  man  a  portion.  Mr.  Richards  is 
a  grandson  of  Mrs.  S.  Duncan  of  near  Strasburg,  and  has  nu- 
merous relatives  in  eastern  Shelby  County.  He  is  now  located 
at  Padroni,  Col. 


GASTON,  GEORGE  F. 
Shelbyville,  111. 


Private 
Co.  H,  131  Inf.,  33  Div. 


Horn  1898  near  Lakewood  ;  farmer  ;  son  Chas.  and  Mary 
Gaston,  Shelbyville;  enl.  July  14,  1917;  Sullivan  in  Co.  C,  130 
Inf.  ;  sent  C.  Logan  ;  trfd.  Co.  H,  131  Inf.  ;  sailed  Hoboken, 
X.  J.,  May  22,  1918,  transport  Leviathan  ;  landed  Brest  ;  in 
active  service  3*/2  mos.  ;  Albert  Front  and  Kemmel  Front  ; 
awarded  Italian  War  Cross,  French  Croix  de  Guerre,  British 
War  Cross,  and  British  Military  Medal.  Recommended  for 
American  Distinguished  Conduct  Cross,  Aug.  9,  1918,  at  Chip- 
pely  Ridge.  After  a  severe  wound  in  right  hand  by  shrapnel 
he  continued  to  advance  on  a  machine  gun  emplacement,  keep- 
ing it  occupied  while  a  detachment  flanked  and  captured  the 
position.  Discharged  Oct.  16,  1918;  100%  disability;  sent  Govt. 
Hosp.  at  Denver. 

YARROROUGH,  HARRY  S.  Private 

Stewardson,  111.  Co.  18,  2  Bn.,  5  Regt.,  U.  S.  Marines 
Born  Sept.  11,  1892,  Stewardson;  farmer;  enl.  Apr.  11,  1917, 
K;i*t  St.  Louis;  served  with  18  Co.,  5  Regt.,  Marines  from  June, 
1917.  to  Nov.,  1917,  trfd.  to  Co.  7,  5  Regt.,  7  Mach.  Gun  Co.; 
trained  as  machine  gunner;  sailed  New  York.  Aug.  5.  1917: 
battle  with  submarine  in  Bay  of  Biscay;  landed  St.  Nazaire; 
sent  to  Camp  De  Souge;  in  action  at  Verdun.  Champagne. 
Argonne  and  Meuse;  wounded  by  shrapnel.  On  Nov.  6,  he  vol- 
unteered to  secure  water  for  the  remainder  of  his  platoon.  Re- 
turning through  shell  fire,  he  found  the  lines  had  moved  for- 
ward and  he  did  not  locate  his  company  until  the  next  day. 
He  was  reported  missing  in  action.  Later  this  was  corrected 
and  the  French  Croix  de  Guerre  was  conferred  upon  him  for 
this  act.  Returned  U.  S.  4948  Casual  Co.  ;  discharged  Ouantico, 
Va.,  June  21,  1919. 

We  have  in  mind  the  record  of  another  man  who 
shall  be  nameless,  but  who  received  a  D.  S.  O.  of 
another  sort.  It  is  given  merely  to  illustrate  a  fact 
that,  although  a  man  may  not  risk  his  life,  his  record 
is  meritorious.  Rejected  early  after  war  was  de- 
clared by  recruiting  offices,  and  over  the  draft  age, 
nevertheless,  he  registered  as  30  years  of  a'je  and 
when  his  turn  came  turned  his  farm  over  to  his  aged 
parents  and  went  joyfully.  A  month  later,  just  after 
he  had  received  notice  of  his  father's  death,  he  was 
asked  by  a  medical  officer  if  he  desired  to  be  dis- 
charged, since  his  physical  defects  had  been  detected, 
but  he  refused  and  the  officer  stamped  upon  his  serv- 
ice record,  "D.  S.  O.,"  not  Distinguished  Service  Or- 
der, but  Domestic  Service  Only.  This  man  served 
barely  long  enough  to  gain  a  silver  stripe  when  the 
armistice  was  signed  at  the  lowliest  tasks  given  to 
men  in  army  camps,  and  the  financial  loss  he  sus- 
tained was  brushed  aside  by  him  with  a  proud 
thought: 

"I  was  in  on  the  big  show  for  a  little  while.  That 
is  worth  most  anything  to  me." 

Page   One  Hundred  Four 


Deserted  Roads 

Time    was    we    sang    of    wanderers    who 

trod  the  open  trail 
And  roved  about  the  merry  world  by  foot 

or  train  or  sail. 
Who    knew    the    wind-swept   spaces    and 

who  braved  the  sun  and  rain, 
Or  followed  gypsy  caravans  by  mountain 

peak  or  plain. 

But    now    the    roads    are    empty    of    the 

blithe  and  restless  clan 
And   bats   and   owls   are   roosting   in  the 

idle  gypsy  van, 
For    every    true    adventurer    who    never 

could  be  still 
Has  joined  the  greatest  game  of  all  and 

found  a  keener  thrill. 

They're   somewhere  in   the  trenches  and 
they're  somewhere  in  the  air, 

Oh.   look  along  the   battle  line   and  you 
will  find  them  there; 

But  when   the  war  is  over  and  we   wel- 
come back  our  men, 

The  rovers — what  are  left  of  them — will 
hit  the  trail  again! 

— Berton  Braley. 


**** 


They  Have  Not  Died  in  Vain 

(Dedicated  to  the  First  Fallen^ 

They  have  not  died  in  vain — 

Those   soldier   lads   who  left  their   tasks 

and  play 
At  Freedom's  call,  who  smiling  marched 

away 
From    home    and    loved,    to    hold    hell's 

tribes  at  bay! 

They  have  not  died  in  vain: 

Though  now  they  rest  beneath  the  war- 
swept  sod, 

A  million  men  shall  walk  the  path  they 
trod 

Because  they  fell — adventurers  for  God! 

They  have  not  died  in  vain: 

Their   cold   lips   speak;   the   whole   world 

hears  their  cry, 
"To  arms!  to  arms!''     The  whole  world 

gives  reply: 
"By     these     dead     heroes     FREEDOM 

SHALL  XOT  DIE!" 

— By  Thomas  Curtis  Clark. 


Shelby  County's 
Roll  of  Honor 


Gold  Stars,  pa&e  65.  Service  Rec- 
cords  arranged  alphabetically  in  two 
groups,  be&innin£  on  next  pa&e,  fol- 
lowed by  S.  A.  T.  C.  Nurses,  pa&e 
97.  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  War  Camp 
Community  Workers,  pa^e  98 


ELBY  COOWF'5 


1.  ABERCROM1UE,   BART  Electrician 
Windsor,    III.                     "San   Diego"   and   "Pocahontas" 

Electrician  ;  son  Robert  and  Lucinda  Abercromhie :  born 
Apr.  16,  1898:  enl.  Cedar  Rapids,  la.,  May  1,  1917:  sent 
Brooklyn,  assigned  'cruiser  "San  Diego"  Jan.  8,  1918.  mak- 
ing 5  trips  on  convoy  duty  ;  cruiser  torpedoed  and  sunk  but 
attacking  sub.  was  also  sunk ;  Abercrombie  picked  up  and 
landed  at  Hohoken;  later  made  about  14  trips  across  on 
Pocahontas.  Pis.  Nov.  1,  1919. 

2.  A11NEY,   M.   D.  1st  Lieut. 
Shelbyville,  111.                                           F.  A.  Replacement 

Born  July  11,  1890;  son  Albert  G.  and  Gertrude  Abney, 
llarrisburg.  111.;  enl.  Field  Art.  Officers'  Training  School, 
I'.  Taylor,  May,  1918;  commissioned  Aug.,  1918;  served  in 
F.  A.  Repl.  as  Adjutant  at  C.  Taylor,  Ky.,  with  rank  of 
1st  Lieut.  Dis.  Feb.,  1919. 

3.  ADAMS,   RAY   V.  Private 
Slu-lbyville,    111.                                                      Engineer   Corps 

Enl.  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  April  14,  1916;  service  during 
period  of  war  was  mainly  in  Hawaiian  Islands;  son  ot 
F.  M.  and  Fronie  Adams,  Shelbyville. 

4.  A  DAM  SON,  GLEN  S.,  Lieut. 
Moweaqua,   111.                                 Co.    L,  60  Inf.,   5th   Div. 

Enl.  Oct.  8,  1917,  Co.  C,  130  Inf..  Sullivan:  trained  C. 
Logan  S'/i  mos. ;  promoted  Cpl.,  then  Sgt. :  sailed  May  16, 
1918;  service  with  Australians  and  English  May  J4-July 
.31;  left  Regt.  to  attend  Army  Candidates'  School.  Langres, 
France;  commissioned  2nd  Lieut.  Inf.;  assigned  Co.  L, 
60th  Inf.,  5th  Div.;  wounded  Oct.  14  in  Argonne ;  hospital 
36  days;  assigned  Co.  F,  56  Pioneer  Inf.,  Coblenz ;  at- 
tended A.  E.  F.  Univ.,  Nancy,  France:  sent  to  C.  Ponten- 
ezen,  Hrest,  France.  His.  Oct.  30,  1919,  C.  Dix,  N.  J. 

5.  AICIIELE,  WM.  F.  Candidate 
Shelbyville,  III.                                    Field  Art.,  C.  1 1.  T.  S. 

Horn  1885,  Shelby  Co.,  111.;  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Galveston, 
Tex.  before  enlisting:  son  of  Mrs.  C.  M.  Aichele ;  employed 
Mu-iby  County  State  Hank;  enl.  Nov.  7,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
attended  Field  Art.  C.  O.  T.  S.  at  C.  Taylor,  Ky.,  until 
armistice.  Dis.  Dec.  5,  1918. 

6      ALEXANDER,   EZEKIEL  H.,  Corporal 

Mattoon,   111.  liattery   E,  4  Corps  Art. 

Son  S.  R.  and  Flora  Alexander;  enl.  June  1,  1918,  Mat- 
toon  ;  sent  Jefferson  Bks. ;  trf.  C.  Jackson,  S.  C. ;  trf.  C. 
Wadsworth,  S.  C.,  and  on  Aug.  30  to  C.  Merritt,  N.  J. : 
sailed  Sept.  3 ;  landed  Manchester,  Eng. ;  sent  to  Toul. 
France;  on  firing  line  until  armistice;  participated  in 
Meuse-Moselle  operations;  assigned  Army  of  Occupation. 
Dis.  C.  Grant,  July  8,  1919. 

7.  ALDAY,  DONALD  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                                                        U.   S.    Marines 

Son  Mrs.  Annie  Alday,  Shelbyville,  III.;  enl.  Mattoon,  July 
17,  1918;  sent  to  St.  Louis,  trf.  Paris  Island,  S.  C.;  served 
in  Cuba  during  period  of  the  war. 

8.  ALDAY,  ONIE  L.  Corporal 
Shelbyville,  111.                                         U.  S.  Marine  Corps 

Son  Mrs.  Annie  Alday,  Shelbyville.  111. ;  enl.  Mattoon,  July 
17,  1918;  sent  to  St.  Louis,  trf.  Paris  Island,  S.  C. ;  sent 
to  Cuba  and  remained  until  close  of  war. 

9.  ALFORD,  GLOVER  E.,  Wagoner 
Shelbyville,   111.                                    Sup.   Co.   370,   93    Div. 

Horn  Apr.  26,  1897,  Mitchellsburg,  Ky. :  son  Mary  Alford, 
Shelbyville:  chauffeur;  enl.  Dec.  19,  1917,  Decatur,  III.; 
trained  l'/2  mos.  Jefferson  Bks.  and  C.  Logan;  sailed  New- 
port News,  May  14,  1918;  firing  line  5  mos.;  Argonne. 
Somme,  Yerdun,  Champagne,  Soissons,  Belleau  Woods; 
outfit  cited  by  Col.  Roberts.  Dis.  Jefferson  Bks.,  Feb.  25, 
1919. 

10.  ALLEN,  RAY   ELMER  Cook 
Stewardson,   III.                                 Co.  B,   122  M.   G.   Bn. 

Born  Nov.  17,  1893,  Stewardson,  111.;  farmer,  son  Rolit. 
Allen;  enl.  May  30,  1917,  Shelbyville:  assigned  Co.  K,  old 
5th  111.  Inf.;  trained  one  year;  sailed  New  York,  May  10, 
1918:  landed  Rrest,  France;  Somme  Offensive,  Albert 
Front,  Yerdun  Sector,  Meuse-Argonne  Offensive ;  Army  of 
Occupation;  outfit  reed.  2  Croix-de-duerre  and  2  D.  S.  C. 
Pis.  C.  Grant,  June  2,  1919;  disability. 


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1.  ANDERSON,   CLARE    E.  Private 
Windsor,   111.                                    Co.    I!,    131    Inf.,   33    Div. 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  II.  Anderson,  Windsor;  enl.  Tune 
27,  1918,  Clinton,  111.:  sent  C.  Gordon,  Ga.  ;  tfd.  C.  Merritt, 
X.  .[.,  July  15;  sailed  July  23,  1918;  landed  England,  sent 
to  France  with  330  Inf.,  Co.  I;  in  hospital,  influenza ;  tfd. 
Co.  11,  131  Inf.;  gassed;  sent  gas  hospital  Xo.  3,  then  to 
Base  Hospital  Xo.  52,  then  Kase  Hospital  Xo.  58;  hospital 

3  mos. ;  landed  U.   S.  June   15.      Dis.  C.   Grant. 

2.  AXDERSOX,   IIEXRY  A.  Private 
Windsor,    111.                                                            Co.   H,   -16   Inf. 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  H.  Anderson,  Windsor;  enl.  lime 
1,  1918,  Clinton,  111".;  sent  Ft.  Thomas,  Ky. ;  tfd.  C.  Sheri- 
dan, Ala. ;  assigned  46th  Inf.  Co.  H  ;  trained  9  mos.  Dis. 
Feb.  14,  1919,  at  C.  Grant. 

3.  AXDERSOX,   LOUIS  T.  Private 
Stewardson,  111.                       Hdq.  Co.,  332  F.  A.,  86  Div. 

Horn  Stewardson,  1895;  son  Andrew  and  Isabel  Anderson; 
teamster;  enl.  Chicago,  Sept.  5.  1917;  sent  C'.  Grant; 
trained  one  year;  sailed  Xew  York,  Sept.  17,  1918;  landed 
Liverpool;  sent  Le  Crounea.  France,  for  further  training'; 
Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  28,  1919. 

4.  AXDERSON,  THOMAS  Private 
Xeoga,  111.                                  Co.  C',  5   M.  C..   Bn.,  2  Div. 

Kill.    May    27,    1918,    Shelbyville ;    sent    C.    Shelby;    trained 

4  mos.;    sent    France   Oct.   2,    1918,   and   there   assigned    to 

5  Machine  Gun  Bn.     Dis.  C.  Grant,  Aug.   15,   1919.. 

5.  AXDES,   CHARLES  SCOVIL  Corporal 
Shelbyville,   111.                           Co.  H,   llth  Regt.   Marines 

Born  Oct.  14,  1897;  son  A.  J.  Andes  and  wife,  Shelbyville; 
enl.  July  26,  1918,  Chicago;  sent  Paris  Island,  tfd.  Quan- 
tico,  Va. ;  trained  2  mos.;  sailed  Oct.  16,  1918,  Ilolioken  ; 
landed  Brest;  finished  training  Gievres,  France;  made  Cp!. 
Oct.  22,  1918;  ordered  to  front,  but  armistice  prevented 
service  under  fire.  Dis.  Aug.  11,  1919,  Hamilton  Roads. 
Va. 

6.  ANXIX,   BERT   N.  Private 
Mattoon,   111.                        4th  Co.,  Coast  Artillery   Corps 

Born  Dec.  28,  1879,  Oakland,  111.;  son  David  Henry  An- 
nin;  farmer;  enl.  April  22,  1917,  Mattoon;  C.  A.  C'.  ; 
assigned  8th  Co.,  Fortress  Monroe,  Va.,  trf.  June  18,  1917, 
to  4th  Co.;  sailed  lune  19,  1917;  landed  San  luan,  P.  I.. 
June  23,  1917;  finished  training,  4th  Co.  C.  A.  C..  Cristo- 
bal, Canal  Zone;  rammer  on  14-inch  gun.  Dis.  C.  (irant. 
June  14,  1919. 

7.  ANNIN,  JESS  O.  Sergeant 
Mattoon,  111.                                       Co.  A.  7th  Amm.  Train 

Born  1896,  Hindsboro,  111.  ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  H.  An- 
nin;  farmer;  enl.  April  27,  1917,  Mattoon;  C.  A.  C. ;  as- 
signed 3rd  Co.,  Fortress  Monroe,  Va. ;  trf.  July  22,  1917, 
to  Btry.  C,  F.  A.,  7th  Div.,  Camp  Robison,  Wis. ;  trf. 
April  21,  1918,  to  Co.  A,  7th  Amm.  Tr.,  Camp  McArthur, 
Texas;  made  Cpl.  Aug.  1,  1918,  at  Camp  McArthur,  pro- 
moted to  Sgt.  Feb.  13,  1919,  at  Jazainville,  France;  sailed 
Aug.  18,  1918;  trained  Camp  De  Meucon  as  truck  driver; 
injured  in  auto  accident  at  Nancy,  France,  April  23,  1919; 
returned  with  7th  Div.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  July  2,  1919. 

8.  ARNOLD,  OTTO  J.  Private 
Shumway,  III.                                   Co.   C,   9th  Amm.  Train 

Born  Nov.  17,  1893,  Shumway;  son  Fred  and  Annie  Ar- 
nold; married  Electa  Largent,  dau.  Daniel  and  Mary  Lar- 
gent,  Clarksburg,  1918;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville; assigned  to  159th  Depot  Brgd.,  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  to 
Co.  C,  9th  Amm.  Tr.,  Camp  McClelland;  in  training  5J/2 
mos.;  in  hospital,  influenza.  Dis.  C.  McClelland,  Dec.  11, 
1918. 

9.  ARTERBURN,  HARRY  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                        160th  Depot  Brigade 

Enlisted  Shelbyville,  Sept.  5,  1918;  sent  Camp  Custer ; 
served  there  until  discharged  in  summer  of  1919. 

10.  ASKINS.  HARLAN  L.  First  Class  Private 
Cowden,  111.                                         Co.   A,  58   Inf.,  4   Div. 

Born  July  11,  1894,  Cowden,  111.;  son  George  and  Rose 
Askins,  Cowden;  brakeman  ;  enl.  Oct.  31,  1917,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  Batt.  B,  327  F.  A.,  trained  7  mos.  C.  Taylor,  C. 
Pike,  C.  Greene;  sailed  New  York,  May  6,  1918,  on  Mol- 
davia; torpedoed  May  23  ;  landed  Dover,  Eng.  ;  ill  trenches 
49  days ;  Battles  of  Argonne  and  Chateau-Thierry ;  re- 
turned as  a  casual.  Dis.  C.  Lee,  June  14,  1918. 

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1.  AULD,  FRANK  PARKINSON          Major  Med.  Corps 
Shelbyville,   111.  130  Inf..  33   Div. 

Horn  Shelbyville,  July  8,  1875;  married  Catherine  A.  Price, 
Jin.  1,  1998,  one  son,  one  daughter ;  Spanish- American 
War  as  private  Co.  E,  4th  III.  Vol.  Inf.;  June  17.  1898  to 
May  2,  1899;  commissioned  1st  Lieut.  M.  C.  111.  Nat. 
Guard,  Apr.  15,  1909;  Capt.,  May  3,  1913;  border  service, 
1916-17;  re-entered  Federal  service  with  130  Inf.  in  1917; 
promoted  Major  Surgeon  130  Inf.,  Jan.  19,  1918;  brigaded 
with  British,  Somme  River,  May  24- Aug.  24 ;  Somme  of- 
fensive;  Verdun,  Meuse-Argonne,  etc.;  trf.  B.  H.  27,  Oct. 
1918;  commended  for  most  efficient  Hosp.  Corps  in  33 
Piv. ;  served  in  various  other  posts  until  return  Jan.  20, 
1919,  on  Sierra,  Hosp.  transport;  served  Camp  Knox,  Ky.. 
as  epidemiologist  and  sanitary  inspector,  Jan.  31-Aug.  12; 
trf.  Ft.  Howard,  Md.,  as  commanding  officer  Post  Hosp. 

2.  AUSTIN,   C.l.KX   GEORGE  1st  Class   Private 
Shelbyville,   III.                                        Hdq.  Co.,  308   F.  A. 

Horn  Aug.  3,  1890,  Shelbyville.  111.;  son  Mrs.  Sarah  K. 
Tallman,  Shelbyville;  tailor;  enl.  Apr.  30,  1918,  C.  Dix ; 
tailor  shop  overseer  at  Aberdeen  Proving  Grounds  7  mos. ; 
trained  lOJ'i  mos.;  sickness  prevented  going  overseas  with 
308  F.  A.  His.  Mch.  15,  1919,  C.  Taylor.  Was  rejected 
for  aviation  at  Rantoul  previous  to  this  enlistment. 

3.  AVARS,  HALDON   B.  Private 

Moweaqua,   III.  Tr.   School,   Pittsburgh,   Pa. 

Born  1895,  Moweaqua,  111.;  banker;  enl.  June  14,  1918, 
Shelbyville,  111. ;  army ;  assigned  Motor  Mechanic  School, 
Kansas  City,  Mo. ;  made  Sgt.  and  qualified  as  expert  truck 
man ;  tri.  to  Training  School  at  Pittsburgh,  Pa. ;  trained 
for  bandmaster.  Dis.  Dec.  11.  1918,  at  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
First  adjutant  of  Remann  T.  Harlan  Post.  American  Le- 
gion, Moweaqua. 

4.  HARBRE.  OSCAR  H.  Private 
Moweaqua,  111.                                               Co.   G,  22   Engrs. 

Son  John  and  Maggie  Barbre,  Moweaqua ;  farmer ;  enl. 
June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Co.  G,  22  Engrs, 
C.  Taylor;  trf.  to  C.  Harrison  July  10,  to  Upton  July  18; 
trained  six  weeks ;  sailed  Montreal,  Canada,  July  22nd, 
transport  Valacia ;  landed  at  Liverpool ;  detailed  near 
Abainsville,  France.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  July  15,  1919. 

5.  BAILLIE,  HUGH  R.  Sergeant 
Shelbyville,   111.            Headquarters  Co.,   130  Inf..  33   Div. 

Horn  Jan.  9,  1888,  Shelbyville;  hotel  clerk;  enl.  June  4, 
1917,  at  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H;  promoted  Mail  Sgt.  Nov. 
1,  1917;  trained  nine  months ;  sailed  Hoboken  May  16, 
trained  Brest ;  at  Meuse  Argonne  Sept.  26  to  Nov.  11 ; 
Amiens  Sector  with  Australians  July  20  to  Aug.  6;  Albert 
Sector  with  British;  Morlancourt  Aug.  10  and  11;  Verdir** 
Sector  Sept.  25  and  26,  1918;  returned  with  33rd  Div. 
Kis.  May  31,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

6.  BAIRD,   IRA  G.  Private    1st   Class 
Decatur,   111.                                     Hdq.  Co.,  327  Field  Art. 

Called  to  service  Sept.  18,  1917;  assigned  to  Headquarters 
Co.  of  the  327th  Field  Artillery  ;  in  training  at  Camp  Tay- 
lor and  Artillery  Range  at  West  Point,  Ky. ;  left  U.  S.  A. 
Sept.  8,  1918,  for  service  overseas;  arrived  back  in  U.  S. 

A.  Feb.  5,   1919.     Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb.   19,  1919.     This  regi- 
ment had   finished   training   and   had   orders   to   move   to   the 
front  when  armistice  was  signed. 

7.  BAKER,   GROVER  Private  First  Class 
Sigel,   111.                                                  Hdq.   Det.,   C.  Taylor 

Born  March  3,  1895,  Sigel;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918, 
Shelbyville ;  assigned  to  Camp  Hdq.  Det.  Camp  Taylor : 
made  first  class  private  Sept.  14,  1918 ;  in  training  one 
year,  2  days;  canteen  work.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  Apr.  7,  1919. 

8.  BALDRIDGE,  HERBERT  Private 
Windsor,  111.                Co.   B,  303   Bn.,  U.  S.  Tank  Corps 

Horn  1883;  married  Mary  Helen  Storm,  dau.  Mrs.  Eliza  J. 
Storm,  Windsor,  Sept.  3,  19-98;  two  sons,  William  Herbert, 
born  Aug.  31,  1909,  and  John  Harold,  born  Feb.  19,  1913; 
enl.  May  25,  1918,  at  Jefferson  Bks.,  Mq. ;  assigned  to  Co. 

B,  303   Bn.   U.   S.   Tank  Corps;   in   training  about   3  mos.; 
in   hospital,  nervous   breakdown  ;   given   honorable  discharge 
under   certificate   of   disability,    at    Camp    Colt,    Gettysburg, 
Pa.,   Aug.    15,    1918.      Previously   served   in    Philippines   from 
Dec.,   1904,  to  Dec.,   1907. 

9.  BALES,  GLEN  E.  Private  First  Class 
Shelbyville,   III.                                     Co.  H,   18   Inf.,   1st  Div. 

Horn  Dec.  8,  1891,  son  of  Mrs.  Minnie  Bales,  Shelbyville; 
clerk;  enl.  July  17,  1917,  Jefferson  Bks. :  assigned  Co.  I, 
59  Inf.,  Gettysburg,  Pa.;  trf.  to  Co.  H,  18  Inf.,  1st  Div., 
Sept.  15,  1917;  made  1st  Cl.  Private  Aug.  12,  1917;  trained 
3  mos.  as  rifleman ;  sailed  from  Hoboken  Oct.  28 :  trans- 
port Mt.  Vernon ;  in  trenches  7  mos. ;  at  Toul,  Wrestern 
Front,  Montdidiers.  Velaches  Farm,  Marne,  Cantigny,  Sois- 
sons ;  gun  shot  wound  in  right  cheek  at  Soissons.  in  hos- 
pital ;  shoulder  fourragere  awarded  to  18th  Inf. ;  returned 
as  a  casual.  Dis.  C.  Funston,  Jan.  16,  1919. 

10.  HALL,  DON  H.  Private  First  Class 
Stewardson,   111.                          Hdq.   Co.,  41   Inf.,   10   Div. 

Born  Stewardsoii,  1893,  son  Jacob  and  Henrietta  Ball, 
Stewardson ;  clerk ;  enl.  Chicago  May  30,  1918 ;  sent  to 
Jerterson  Bks.,  St.  Louis ;  trf.  Camp  Funston,  Kansas, 
three  days  later  and  assigned  to  Hdq.  Co.,  41  Inf.;  at  Eun- 
ston  13  mos.  under  Gen.  Wood.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  July  1, 
1919. 

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1.  BANKS,  GEORGE  H.  Wagoner 
Findlay,   111.                                               Htlq.   Co.,    10th   Inf. 

Born  Oct.  28,  1895,  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Coleman  Banks, 
Findlay;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assignee! 
to  10th  Infantry  at  Camp  Custer;  in  training  nine  months; 
in  hospital,  empyema.  Dis.  C.  Custer  June  4,  1919. 

2.  BANNING,  MELL  Private 
Westervelt,  111.                                        308th  Field  Artillery 

Born  Tuly  21,  1891,  Shelbyville,  111.;  son  Robert  and  Etta 
Banning;"  farmer;  enl.  April  29,  1918,  at  Shelbyville,  111.; 
assigned  to  Headquarters  Co.,  308  Field  Artillery,  Camp 
Dix,  N.  J.  Dis.  C.  Mead,  Md.,  Dec.  6,  1918. 

3.  BAPTIST,  GEORGE  FREEMAN  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                       Co.   G,  22nd  Engineers 

Born  Nov.  11,  1895,  in  Shelby  Co.;  son  of  Walter  and  Cora 
Baptist;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  at  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed to  1 59  Depot  Brigade,  53rd  Co.,  Camp  Taylor ;  trf. 
to  Co.  G,  22nd  Eng.,  Ft.  Berij.  Harrison,  July,  1918;  trf. 
to  Upton,  Aug.  14,  1918;  sailed  from  Montreal,  Canada, 
Aug.  22,  1918,  transport  Valacia,  after  fouf  days  out  re- 
turned to  Quebec  and  sailed  on  the  Port  Lincoln ;  landed 
Liverpool  Sept.  14,  1918;  was  in  Engineering  Corps  at 
Abainsville.  France,  as  narrow  gauge  R.  R.  engineer;  in 
hospital  twice,  influenza  and  mumps.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July 
16,  1919. 

4.  BARKER,  JAMES  DEWEY  Corporal 
Shelbyville,  "ill.                                             Co.  H.  130th  Inf. 

Born  May  31,  1898,  Shelbyville;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  T. 
Barker,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  enl.  June  2,  1917,  Shelbyville, 
in  Co.  H,  130th  Inf.;  made  Cpl.  Jan.  2,  1918;  trained  in 
infantry  at  Camp  Logan  9l/2  months;  in  hospital,  loss  of 
ear  drum.  Dis.  C.  Logan  March  25,  1918. 

5.  BARKER,  LAWRENCE  Private  First  Class 
Shelbyville,  111.                                      Base  Hospital  No.  53 

Born  Nov.  20,  1891,  Shelbyville;  son  Mrs.  Sarah  Barker, 
Shelbyville;  enl.  March  11,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to 
Base  Hospital  No.  53,  Fort  Oglethorpe,  Augusta,  Ga. ;  trf. 
to  Merrit  July  12,  1918;  in  training  3  mos. ;  sailed  from 
Hoboken  July  13,  1918;  transport  Carmella ;  sank  one  sub. 
on  way  over ;  landed  at  Liverpool  .Aug.  1  ;  finished  train- 
ing at  Longuas ;  hospital  apprentice ;  in  hospital,  acute 
catarrh  of  head.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  9,  1919. 

6.  BARNETT,  FRANK  II.  Private 
Stewardson,   III.                    Hdq.  Co.,   119  Inf.,  JOth   Div. 

Born  August  18,  1888,  at  Stewardson;  son  J.  H.  and  Mary 
H.  Harriett;  butcher;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  at  Shelbyville, 
III.;  assigned  18th  Co.,  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Taylor;  trf. 
March  21,  1918,  to  Hdq.  Co.  119  Inf.,  30th  Div.,  Greenville, 
S.  C. ;  sailed  Boston  May  11,  1918,  transport  Laomadon ; 
landed  at  Liverpool  May  28,  1918;  in  training  6  weeks  at 
St.  Amair;  went  to  trenches  Aug.  1,  1918;  there  2  months 
18  days;  at  Ypres  front,  4  battles;  at  St.  Quentin,  4  bat- 
tles; wounded  at  St.  Souplet  Oct.  18,  1918,  severe  burn 
from  mustard  gas  on  back  and  left  arm ;  in  hospital  until 
Dec.  13;  returned  a  casual.  Dis.  Jan.  1,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

7.  BARR,  CLAUDE  C.  Private 
Cowden,  111.                                         Co.   B,   102   M.   G.   Bn. 

Went  from  Shelbyville,  May  27,  1918,  to  Camp  Shelby, 
Miss.;  trained  at  Shelby  and  sent  overseas  in  Sept.,  1918; 
in  France  over  six  mos,  with  Co.  B,  102  Machine  Gun  Bn. 
Dis.  C.  Grant  May  13,  1919. 

8.  BARRETT,  CHARLES  Private 
Tower  Hill,  111.                        Co.  H,  130th  Inf.,  33rd  Div. 

Born  May  13,  1896,  Lakewood :  son  Mrs.  Catherine  Bar- 
rett; farmer;  enl.  June  14,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H, 
130th  Inf.;  in  training  12  months;  sailed  Hoboken  June 
27,  1918,  transport  French  ship  Chicago;  landed  at  Bor- 
deaux, France,  July  10,  1918;  went  to  trenches  July,  1918, 
there  about  3  mos.  ;  at  Meuse  Argonne  offensive,  on  front 
along  Meuse  River,  over  the  top  at  St.  Mihiel ;  wounded, 
high  explosive  shell  Nov.  10,  1918,  while  taking  Marche- 
ville,  in  St.  Mihiel  sector;  in  hospital  twice,  mumps;  re- 
turned as  hospital  patient  to  U.  S.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  29, 
1919.  First  ringer  left  hand  amputated,  wounds  in  legs. 

9.  BARTH,  ALBERT  LAWRENCE  Corporal 
Pana,  111.  R.  No.  5             302  Water  Tank  Train,  Co.  C 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Christian  E.  Barth ;  farmer;  enl.  June 
14,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  302  Water  Tank  Train,  Co. 
C;  made  Cpl.  Sept.  10;  trained  for  truck  driving  and  re- 
pairing 1 1  weeks ;  sailed  Hoboken  Oct.  20 ;  transport  Ne- 
lius ;  landed  at  Liverpool  Oct.  31,  1918;  in  hospital,  measles 
and  pneumonia.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Aug.  6,  1919. 

10.  BARTLEY,  DAVIE  Private 
Windsor,   111.                             Co.  C,  154th  Inf.,  39th  Div. 

Son  Samuel  and  Rebecca  Bartley,  Bloomington,  Ind. ; 
farmer:  enl.  Tune  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  53  Co., 
159th  Depot  Brigade,  C.  Taylor;  trf.  July  22  to  Co.  C, 
154th  Inf.,  39th  Div.,  Camp  Beauregard ;  trf.  Aug.  4  to 
Camp  Stuart;  trained  six  weeks;  sailed  Newport  News 
Aug.  6,  1918;  transport  Zealander;  landed  at  Brest,  France, 
Aug.  18  ;  returned  with  Casual  Co.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  10. 

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1.  BARTLEY,  LEONARD  Private 
Windsor,  III.                                        Co.  G,  22nd  Engineers 

Born  Oct.  30,  1891,  Belmont,  Ind. ;  son  Samuel  and  Re- 
becca Bartley;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  53rd  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky. ; 
trf.  to  Co.  G,  22nd  Eng.,  Ft.  Harrison,  July  10;  trained 
for  light  railroad  engrs.,  Ft.  Harrison,  Ind..  about  two 
months;  sailed  Montreal,  Canada,  Aug.  22,  1918,  on  Port 
Lincoln  ;  ship  went  back  to  Quebec  for  repairs,  had  25-day 
voyage;  landed  Liverpool,  Eng.,  Sept.  16,  1918;  finished 
training  at  Abainville,  France;  at  Meuse  Argonne  sector; 
returned  with  Co.  G,  22nd  Engrs.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  16, 
1919. 

2.  BARTON,  JAMES  H.  Corporal 
Cowden,  111.       Co.  M,  13  Inf.,  Pathfinder  Div.  (8  Div.) 

Born  Nov.  4,  1896,  Lakewood;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James 
Ilarton  ;  cashier  in  Denver;  enl.  Aug.  5,  1918,  Denver; 
assigned  Co.  M,  13  Inf.,  8th  Div.,  Fremont,  Cal. ;  trf.  (Jet. 
28  to  C.  Mills,  Dec.  1  to  Merritt;  made  Corporal  Oct.  15, 
1918;  ready  to  go  across  at  time  of  signing  of  armistice. 

3.  BARTON,  RAY  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                           Co.   H,   130  Inf.,  33rd  Div. 

Born  March  8,  1895,  Shelbyville;  son  Mrs.  Ida  Barton; 
farmer;  enl.  June  19,  1916,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf., 
33rd  Div.;  June  24,  1916,  went  to  border  with  Co.  H, 
served  through  the  period,  re-enlisted  for  Federal  service 
in  1917;  prompted  to  Cpl.  March,  1918;  trained  10  mos. 
as  automatic  rifleman;  sailed  Iloboken  May  16;  transport 
Agamemnon;  landed  Hrest  May  24,  1918;  was  with  Co.  _H 
in  all  its  engagements;  in  hospital  10  days;  returned  with 
33rd  Div.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  30,  1919. 

BASSETT,  CHAS.  A.  Private 
Tower  Hill,  111.  Co.  C,  126  Inf.,  32  Div. 
Enl.  Blue  Earth,  Minn.,  May  27,  1917.  Discharged  ac- 
count disability,  June  1-0,  1919,  at  Ft.  Sheridan,  111. 

4.  BATEMAN,  HERSHEL  Private 
Findlay,  111.                            Hdq.  Co.,   119  Inf.,  30th  Div. 

Born  April  5,  1896,  Macon  Co.;  son  Alexander  and  Emma 
Bateman;  farmer;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
to  18th  Co.,  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  Hdq.  Co.,  119  Inf.,  30  Div., 
Camp  Sevier ;  in  training  3  months;  sailed  from  N.  Y. 
May  llth;  transport  Ascania ;  attacked  by  submarine  May 
26th;  landed  Liverpool  May  27th;  in  trenches  3  mos.; 
Flanders  front,  Battle  of  Voormezeele,  Somme  front,  broke 
Hindenburg  line  at  Bellicourt  and  other  minor  engage- 
ments. Dis.  C.  Grant  April  14,  1919. 

5.  BATES,  CLYDE  Private 
Lincoln,  111.                              Co.  H,  130th  Inf.,  30th  Div. 

Served  throughout  war  with  Co.   H. 

6      BATES,  LUCIAN  Private 

Lincoln,  111.  Co.  H,  130th  Inf.,  30th  Div. 

Served  throughout  war  with  Co.  H  of  Shelbyville,  together 
with  his  brother,  Clyde. 

7.  BATTOX",  GEORGE  Private 
Oconee,  111.                                       Co.  H.  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Hrother  of  John  Batton ;  served  through  with  Co.  H  at 
Camp  Logan  and  overseas;  discharged  May  30,  1919,  at 
Camp  Grant. 

8  BATTON,  JOHN  Corporal 
Oconee,  111.'                                      Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Served  through  period  of  war  with  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33 
Div.,  as  Lewis  automatic  rifleman  and  sniper;  was  wound- 
ed. Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  30,  1918. 

9  BECK,  TONY  ARNOLD  Private 
Windsor,  111.                                              Third  Corps  School 

Born  March  1,  1889,  Bethel,  Ohio;  farmer;  son  W.  W. 
Beck,  Gays,  111.;  enl.  July  23,  1918,  Eldora,  Iowa ;  as- 
signed Third  Corps  School;  sailed  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  Aug. 
23.  1918;  landed  Liverpool.  Dis.  July  24,  1919,  C.  Dodge. 
One  brother  killed  in  action;  one  sister  served  as  yeo- 
manette in  navy,  and  one  sister  in  Navy  Department  at 
Washington. 

10.   BECK,  ANNIE  MAY  3d  CM.  Yeomanette 

Windsor,  111.  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Daughter  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  W.  Beck;  born  Jan.  17,  1884, 
Bethel,  Ohio;  bookkeeper  and  stenographer,  Hot  Springs, 
Ark. ;  enl.  as  yeomanette  in  navy,  Washington,  D.  C.,  Oct. 

8,  1918,   for   four   years;    assigned  duty   in   Award   Section, 
P.ureau  of  Supplies  and   Accts.,   Navy   Dept. ;   passed  over- 
seas   examination;    waiting    for    orders    for    overseas    duty 
when  armistice  was  signed ;   promoted  3d  class  yeomanette 
Feb.    1,   1919;   two  brothers  and  one  sister  in  service;   one 
brother,    Wm.    Ross    Beck,    killed    in    France;    member    of 
Betsy   Ross  Post,  The  American  Legion. 

BENXER,  ROSS  E.  Findlay,  111. 

Enl.  with  Co.  C,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.;  served  through  with 
this  outfit  in  France. 

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1.  BECK.  OSCAR  C.  2d   Lieut.   Q.   M.   C. 
Herrick,  111.                          319th  Auxiliary  Remount  Sta. 

Enl.  July,  1918,  Jefferson  Bks. ;  trf.  C.  Taylor  and  com- 
missioned 2d  Lieut. ;  still  in  service. 

2.  BECHTEL.  GRANT  Private 
Cowden,   111.                                                           37th  Infantry 

Born  Nov.  9,  I89S,  at  Cowden;  son  Rev.  M.  and  Mrs. 
Olive  Bechtel;  clerk;  married  Oct.  6,  1917,  Edna  Cutler, 
dau.  Mr.  Geo.  W.  Cutler;  enl.  May  23,  1918,  Shelby  ville ; 
assigned  to  37th  Infantry;  served  on  the  Mexican  border 
as  guard  at  Ft.  Mclntosh,  Laredo,  Texas;  was  discharged 
there  March  18,  1919. 

3.  BECKER,  MILTON  First   Class    Seaman 
Shelbyville,   111.  U.   S.    Navy 

Born  Apr.  28,  1896,  E.  St.  Louis;  son  Mrs.  Minnie  Becker, 
Shelbyville;  enl.  June  24,  1917,  St.  Louis;  navy;  assigned 
Newport,  R.  I. ;  trf.  to  Philadelphia  receiving  ship,  trf.  to 
New  York  receiving  ship,  then  to  Pauillac,  France ;  pro- 
moted from  apprentice  seaman  to  second  class  seaman  and 
then  to  seaman  ;  in  training  four  months ;  sailed  from  Ho- 
boken  Dec.  15,  1917;  transport  St.  Louis;  landed  at  Liver- 
pool Dec.  28,  1917;  assigned  Naval  Aviation  Force  at 
Gujan  Mestras,  France ;  in  hospital.  Dis.  because  of  dis- 
ability, Nov.  22,  1918,  at  Naval  Hospital,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Saw  border  service  in  1916  with  Co.  H. 

4.  BELLES,    HARRY  W.  2d    Lieut. 
Stewardson,  111.           Battery  B,   1st  Regt.,  F.  A.  R.  D. 

Born  June  11,  1888,  Cowden;  son  Mrs.  Virginia  Belles; 
hotel  prop.;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1917,  Shelbyville;  army;  assigned 
to  327  Field  Art.,  Camp  Taylor ;  promoted  to  Corporal 
and  to  Sergeant  at  C.  Taylor ;  trf.  to  West  Point  April  25, 
1918;  attended  3rd  O.  T.  C. ;  com.  2d  Lieut.,  June  1,  1918; 
assigned  to  Battery  B,  1st  Reg.  2nd  Bn.,  Camp  Jackson ; 
in  training  16  mos. ;  in  hospital,  influenza.  Dis.  Ft.  Sill, 
Dec.  23,  1918. 

5.  BENEFIEL,  CLARENCE  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                                   113th   Engrs.,   7th  Div. 

Born  May  24,  1893,  at  Shelbyville;  son  Geo.  and  Elizabeth 
Benefiel;  miner;  enl.  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
to  113th  Eng.,  38th  Div.,  Camp  Shelby;  in  training  4  mos.; 
sailed  Newport  News  May  15,  1918;  transport  Finland, 
had  collision  with  an  American  hospital  transport  on  night 
of  Sept.  25th;  landed  Brest,  France,  Sept.  28,  1918;  was 
in  the  Toul  sector;  113th  Engrs.  reassigned  to  7th  Div. 
and  were  in  the  Army  of  Occupation ;  returned  to  U.  S. 
with  7th  Div.  Dis.  C.  Grant  June  26,  1919. 

<>.     BENNETT,  JACOB   L.  Wagoner 

Herrick,  111.  Supply  Co.,   10  Inf.,  14  Div. 

Born  Nov.  9,  1893,  Edgar  Co. ;  son  Jacob  and  Emma  Ben- 
nett; farmer;  enl.  May  29,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to 
Sup.  Co.  10  Inf.,  14  Div.;  trf.  from  Ft.  Thomas  to  Ft. 
Harrison  May  30,  1918,  to  Custer  July  29,  1918;  promoted 
to  wagoner  Sept.  19,  1918;  in  training  11  mos.  22  days. 
Dis.  C.  Custer  May  21,  1918.  Brother,  Russell,  died  of 
influenza  at  Camp  Grant. 

7.     BETHARDS,  CHESTEEN  F.  1st  Cl.   Private 

Moweaqua,  111.  Prisoners  of  War  Escort   No.   64 

Born  Nov.  24,  1887,  son  C.  W.  Bethards,  Moweaqua; 
fireman:  enl.  May '27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  army;  assigned 
to  Co.  B,  151  Inf.,  38  Div.,  C.  Shelby,  Miss. ;"  in  training 
four  mos.;  sailed  from  Montreal,  Can.,  Oct.  4,  1918; 
transport  Northland;  landed  at  Liverpool,  Eng.,  Oct.  18, 
1918;  crossed  English  Channel  Oct.  20;  landed  in  France- 
trf.  to  83  Div.  Oct.  30,  to  P.  W.  E.  No.  201  Nov.  24,  to 
P.  W.  E.  No.  64  Aug.  18,  1919;  particular  work,  guarding 
Cierman  prisoners.  Uis.  C.  Dix  Oct.  21,  1919. 

«.     BIGGS,  FLOYD  L.  Private 

Shelbyville,  111.  Ordnance  Dept. 

Son  Mrs.  Nannie  Biggs,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Aug.  14,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  sent  Lewis  Institute  for  training  as  mechanic; 
trf.  Oct.  15  to  Ordnance  Dept.  at  Penniman,  Va.,  muni- 
tions plant ;  trf.  Newport  News  and  back  to  Penniman ; 
trf.  Jan.  12  to  Sparta,  Wis.,  Camp  Robinson,  to  store  am- 
munition. Dis.  Apr.  5,  1919,  C.  Robinson. 

•9.     BIGLER,  LLOYD  LENOIR  Corporal 

Sigel,   111.  Co.   G,  22nd   Engrs. 

Born.  Dec.  14,  1894,  Sigel,  111.;  son  Alonzo  and  Mary  C. 
Bigler;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville,  111.;  army; 
assigned  to  53rd  Co.,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.  ;  trf.  to  Co.  G, 
22nd  Engrs.,  Fort  Benj.  Harrison,  July  18,  1918;  in  train- 
ing for  narrow  gauge  and  construction  engineers  6  wks. ; 
sailed  from  Montreal  Aug.  22,  1918;  transport  II.  M.  T. 
Port  Lincoln;  landed  at  Liverpool,  England,  Sept.  16, 
1918;  Cherbourg  Sept.  18,  active  service  at  once;  1st  cl. 
private  Nov.  1,  1918,  at  Abainville,  Corporal  May  29,  1919 
at  Paris;  sailed  St.  Nazaire  June  27,  1919;  landed  N  Y. 
July  7.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  16,  1919. 

10.  BIGLER,  THEODORE  CHRISTIAN  Private 

Sigel,  111.  Rail  Head  Detachment  306 

Born  Oct.  11,  1892,  Sigel;  son  Alonzo  and  Mary  C.  Bigler; 
farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville,  111.;  army;  assigned 
to  44th  Co.,  Camp  Custer,  Mich.;  trf.  to  Rail  Head  De- 
tachment 306,  Johnston,  Fla.,  Oct.  28,  1918;  in  training 
3*/i  mos.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Dec.  24,  1918. 

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1.  lilGLER,  WALTKR  G.  Corporal 
Sigel,  111.                                                   Co.  G,  22   Engineers 

Mail  carrier;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Tay- 
lor; trf.  Ft.  Harrison  and  assigned  Co.  G,  22  Engineers  ; 
promoted  Corporal;  sent  to  France  Aug.  22,  1918.  Dis. 
C.  Grant,  July  16,  1919. 

I1AKKR,   EDWARD  R.  Seaman  2d  C!. 

Shelbyville.  111.  I".  S.  X.   K.   F.  4 

Son  J.  II.  Baker,  Shelbyville  ;  served  at  Great  Lakes;  re- 
leased from  active  duty  March  22,  1919. 

2.  1HV1XS.  SIDXEY  VANE  Private 
Shelbyville,  III.                                   Co.  G,  22nd   Engineers 

I'.orn  Dec.  23,  1887,  Shelbyville;  son  Mr.  W.  C.  and  Mrs. 
Marinda  Bivins;  farmer;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  to  53rd  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Tavlor, 
Ky.;  trf.  July  20,  1918,  to  Co.  G,  22nd  Engrs.,  Ft.  Benj. 
Harrison:  in  training  3  weeks;  sailed  Montreal.  Canada, 
August  22,  1918;  transport  Valacia  to  Sidney.  X.  S.  ;  Ger- 
man spy  discovered  on  ship  and  was  taken  to  Sidney, 
thence  back  to  Quebec,  and  sailed  again  on  Port  Lincoln  ; 
landed  Cherbourg,  France,  Sept.  18,  1918;  in  hospital  at 
Gondocprt,  influenza,  Oct.  15  to  Xov.  6,  1918.  Dis.  C. 
Grant,  July  16,  1919. 

3       ItlVIXS,   VVARRKX  SCOVIL  Corporal 

Shelbyville,   111.  Hdq.   Co.,    119th   Inf.,   30th   Div. 

Born  March  15,  1890,  Shelbyville;  son  Dr.  F.  P.  liivins  ; 
farmer;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  159  Depot 
Unmade;  trf.  from  Camp  Taylor  to  Camp  Sevier,  Hdq.  Co., 
119th  Inf.,  March  22;  trained  4  months  as  signalman; 
sailecl  Hoboken,  transport  Ascania,  May  11;  attacked  by 
submarines  night  of  May  26;  landed  Liverpool  May  27: 
Camp  liailey,  Belgium;  to  trenches  July  20,  4  mos.  at 
Vpres.  Voormezeele,  Cambria,  on  Somme,  Hindenburg 
line;  gassed  at  Bellicourt,  Sept.  29;  made  Cpl.  Oct.  15, 
1918,  liehencourt,  France;  returned  with  39th  Div.  Dis. 
C.  Grant,  April  14,  1919. 


4.      BIXLER,  PAUL  L. 
Mode,  111. 


Private 
Co.  K.  10  Inf.,  14  Div. 


Enl.  Shelbyville,  May  29,  1918;  sent  Ft.  Thomas;  trf. 
shortly  after  to  10  Inf.,  at  Ft.  Benjamin  Harrison  and 
served  with  Co.  K  at  C.  Custer,  Mich.,  until  discharged 


5. 


1st  Class  Private 
115  F.  A.,  30th  Div. 


BLACKSTONE,  GAY 

Shelbyville,  111. 
Born  Apr.  12,  1890,  Shelby  county;  farmer;  son  Daniel 
and  Cassie  Blackstone;  enl.  Sept.  19,  1917,  Shelbyville; 
sent  C.  Taylor,  assigned  327  F.  A. ;  trf.  C.  Sevier,  S.  C., 
March  1  1918;  trf.  June  1  to  C.  Mills;  sailed  New  \  ork 
Tune  5-  landed  Liverpool;  Battles  St.  Mihiel,  Argonne, 
Meuse  sector.  Dis.  April  11,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

6.      BLAIR,  ROSS  A.  Sergeant 

Findlay,  111.  Co.  C,   113th  Ammunition  Tr.  38 

Went  into  service  May  27,   1918,  at  Camp  Shelby  ;   arrived 
in    France    Oct.    17,    1918,    with    38th    Div.;    home   June    3, 


1919. 


7.     BLAXD,  JESS 
Herrick,  111. 


Private 

Co.  K,  54  Inf.,  6  Div. 

Born  1892;  son  Jesse  Bland,  Herrick;  farmer;  enl.  May 
10  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  F.  Thomas,  Ky. ;  trained  2 
mos.;  sailed  July  7,  landed  Glasgow;  17  days  in  trenches; 
battle  Meuse-Argonne.  Dis.  June  21,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

8.     BLAXCETT,  MILLARD  P,ri^te 

Shelbyville,   111.  M.  G.  Co.,  318  Inf..  80  Div. 

Born    1893,   McLean   Co.,  111. ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.   A.   Blan- 
cett;  farmer;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  .i3rd 
Co.,  159th  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky. ;  trf.  July  20, 
1918    to  M    G.  Co.,  155  Inf.,  39th  Div.,  Camp  Beaureguard, 
La.;  trf.   Oct.    17th  to  M.  G.   Co.,  318   Inf.,  80th   Div., ^  St. 
Florent;    sailed    from    Hoboken,    X.    J.,    August    22 
transport    Rijudam :    landed    Brest,    France,    Sept.    3. 
went    to    trenches    Oct.    31,    1918;    remained   until    Nov.    9, 
1918;    in    Meuse  Argonne   sector.     Dis.    C.   Grant  June    11. 
1919. 

9       BLAXD,  EDMOXD  1st   Cl.   Private 

'     Strasburg,   111.  326  F.  A..  84  Div. 

Born  Dec.  26,  1890.  Strasburg;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  19,  1917, 
Toledo,  111.;  sent  C.  Taylor;  assigned  Medical  Corps  326 
F  \  •  sailed  Hoboken.  X.  J.,  Sept.  9,  1918;  landed  Glas- 
gow; finished  training  C.  De  Souge,  France;  armistice  pre- 
vented active  service.  Dis.  C.  Grant  March  1,  1919. 

10.   BODIXE,  GEORGE  E.  Clerk 

Shelbyville,  111.  104  Trench  Mortar  Bn..  25 

Horn  Xov.  22,  1892,  Shelby  county;  son  John  and  Ella 
Bodine,  Shelbyville;  enl.  March  28.  1918.  Detroit,  Mich.  : 


sent  C.  Custer;  assigned  160  Depot  Brigade:  trf.  C.  Gor- 
don Co  1,  1  Inf.  Renl.  Bn. ;  trf.  C.  McClellan.  104  T.  M. 
Bn  29  Div. :  sailed  Hoboken,  July  4,  transport  Aquitania  ; 
landed  Liverpool;  finished  training  C.  Mucon:  in  . Metz 
sector;  clerical  service.  Dis.  C.  Custer  March  21,  1919. 

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1.  DOLING,  CLEM   MORTON  Ensign 
Windsor,  111.                    Officer- Material   School,   Harvard 

Enrolled  in  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force  March  12,  1918,  as 
yeoman  first  class ;  first  assignment,  reporter,  General 
Court-Martial,  Boston  Navy  Yard;  made  chief  petty  officer 
May  I,  1918 ;  commissioned  Ensign  July  25th ;  under  in- 
struction United  States  Naval  Academy,  Annapolis,  Mary- 
land, until  Sept.  15th;  assigned  to  Naval  Base,  Montreal, 
Canada,  until  Dec.  5th,  helping  fit  out  naval  overseas  trans- 
portation vessels;  acted  as  Division  Officer,  receiving  ship, 
Boston,  during  December  and  part  of  January,  1919;  sup- 
ply Officer,  Officer-Material  School,  Harvard  College,  from 
January  15th  until  discharge. 

2.  BOSWELL,  CEDRIC  H.  Sergeant 
Shelbyville,  III.           Hdq.  &  .Supply  Co.,  5  Reg.,  14  Bn. 

Born  July  4,  1893,  Owensboro,  Ky. ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
C.  T.  Bos  well,  Stanley,  Ky. ;  married  Marie  Wyrick  June 
8,  1918;  enl  June  29,  1918,  Owensboro,  Ky. ;  "army ;  as- 
signed to  23rd  Co.,  6  Tr.  Bat.,  C.  Taylor ;  promoted  to 
Sergeant  Hdq.  &  Supply  Co.,  5th  Reg.,  14th  Bn.,  C.  Tay- 
lor, Sept.  23,  1918 ;  in  training  6  mos.  7  days.  Dis.  C. 
Taylor  Jan.  3,  1919. 

3.  BOYD,  HARRY  TALMAGE  3rd  Class   Fireman 
Shelbyville,  111.              Great  Lakes  Naval  Training  Sta. 

Born  Sept.  21,  1896,  Rantoul,  111.;  son  Chas.  and  Elizabeth 
Boyd ;  farmer;  enl.  June  1,  1918,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  navy;  as- 
signed to  public  works  duty  at  Great  Lakes.  Dis.  April  1, 
1919,  Great  Lakes,  111. 

4.  BOWMAN,  WILLIAM  R.  Private 
Gays,  111.                                         312  Supply  Co.,  78th  Div. 

Born  Mar.  3,  1895,  Gays ;  son  Chas.  Bowman ;  steno. ; 
enl.  May  25,  1918,  Shelbyville;  army;  assigned  137  M.  G. 
Bn.,  38  Div.,  Camp  Shelby;  trf.  July  17  to  Camp  Mills, 
chauffeur  1st  cl. ;  sailed  on  Zelandia ;  convoy  attacked  Aug. 
16 ;  Liverpool  Aug.  1 7 ;  rest  camp  Winchester,  received 
advanced  gas  and  M.  G.  training;  to  the  lines  Sept.  12,  in 
St.  Mihiel  offensive  which  lasted  until  Sept.  15  ;  to  Winnal 
Downs  and  Laigle  rest  camps  until  Oct.  15  ;  entered 
Meuse-Argonne  drive  and  remained  until  Nov.  11;  machine 
gunner;  Dec.  1  trf.  to  78  Casual  Co.  until  April  24,  1919; 
assigned  to  Supply  Co.,  312  Inf. ;  landed  Brooklyn.  Dis. 
C.  Grant  June  3,  1919. 

5.  BOYER,   DALE  F.  Private 
Moweaqua,  111.                   Bat.  D,  34  Reg.,  131   Div.  C.  A. 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  W.  Boyer,  Moweaqua ;  married 
Mary  K.  Portwood  Sept.  1,  1917;  one  son  Harold  Marvin 
born  Dec.  8,  1918;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
to  44  Co.,  11  Bn.  160  D.  B.,  Camp  Custer;  trf.  Nov.  1  to 
Coast  Artillery,  Fort  Totten,  L.  I.,  N.  Y.,  week  later  to 
Camp  Eustis,  Va.,  to  Bat.  D,  34  Reg.,  131  Div.;  Dec.  16 
trf.  to  Grant.  Dis.  there  Dec.  27,  1918. 

6.  BRANT,  JOHN  Private 
Moweaqua,  111.                             Co.  A,  3   Bn.,  20th   Engrs. 

Enl.  Sept.  6,  1917,  Battle  Creek,  Mich.;  army;  assigned  to 
Battery  A,  329  Field  Artillery;  trf.  Nov.  26,  Co.  A,  3  Bn., 
20th  Engrs. ;  went  to  France  in  Jan.,  1918.  Dis  C.  Custer 
Feb.  10,  1919. 

7.  BRAUER,  SAMUEL  C.  Corps    Observer 
Strasburg,   111.                                 2d  Army   Corps,   30th   Div. 

Born  April  4,  1890,  Altamont ;  son  August  Brauer  Sr. ; 
married  1912  to  Jennie  Schwerdtfeger,  dau.  Herman  and 
Mary  Schwerdtfeger ;  dau.,  Mary  Karoline,  born  Nov.  19, 
1917 ;  Ev.  Luth.  parochial  teacher ;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918, 
Shelbyville ;  assigned  159  Depot  Brigade,  C.  Taylor ;  trf. 
Mar.  22  to  Camp  Sevier,  Co.  M,  30th  Div. ;  promoted  to 
Intelligence  Dept.  as  observer,  later  to  Corps  Observer 
and  interpreter ;  trained  4  mos. ;  sailed  Boston  May  12 ; 
trained  with  British  at  Ypres;  in  trenches  from  July  11  to 
Sept.  8 ;  at  Ypres,  Vermoozeele,  St.  Quentin,  Bellicourt, 
Busigny,  St.  Souplet,  Selle  River;  reassigned  to  2nd  Army 
Corps  as  Corps  Observer  with  Corps  Intelligence  Dept. ; 
also  served  as  interpreter.  Dis.  C.  Grant  March  7,  1919. 

8.  BREWER,  VIRGIL  R.  Private 
Findlay,  111.                              53rd  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade 

Enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph 
Brewer,  Westervelt ;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor  and  assigned 
to  53rd  Co.,  Depot  Brigade ;  in  hospital  Oct.  3  with 
pneumonia,  there  month  and  a  half.  Dis.  Dec.  11,  1918, 
with  rank  of  Act.  Sgt.  Trained  in  F.  A.  replacements  as 
instrument  sergeant. 

9.  BRIDGES,  BOYD  Private 
Trowbridge,    111.                                             119   Inf.,   30th   Div. 

Born  Tune  9,  1895;  son  Thomas  Bridges;  farmer;  enl.  Feb. 
22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  18  Co.,  159  D.  B.,  C. 
Taylor ;  sailed  with  30  Div.  from  Boston  May  12 ;  in 
trenches  4J/2  mos.;  at  Ypres  front,  Bellicourt  front,  helped 
break  Hindenhurg  line ;  St.  Souplet.  Dis.  C.  Grant  April 
14,  1919. 

10.  BRIDGES,  HOWARD  RALPH  1st   Lieutenant 
Shelbyville,   111.                        Supply  Co.,   130  Inf.,   33    Div. 

Born  June  4,  1894,  Windsor ;  son  Thomas  E.  and  Cora 
Bridges ;  married  June  21,  1919,  to  Gladys  Gehm,  dan. 
Tacob  and  Emma  Gehm ;  farmer ;  enl.  June  10,  1915,  in 
Co.  H;  called  to  U.  S.  service  July  25,  1917,  Shelbyville; 
made  1st  Sgt.  when  sworn  in  govt.  service,  commissioned 
Nov.  17,  1917,  at  Camp  Logan  as  1st  Lieut.;  trained  for 
Inf.  commander  10  mos, ;  sailed  May  14,  1918 ;  went  to 
trenches  July  2-0;  Somme  offensive,  Meuse-Argonne,  Troy- 
on  ;  brigaded  on  Albert,  St.  Mihiel,  Verdun,  Hamel,  Toul, 
with  British ;  returned '  with  Supply  Co.,  130th  Inf.  Dis. 
May  30,  1919,  at  C.  Grant. 

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1.     BRIDGMAN,  GUY  HAROLD  Corporal 

Mowcaqua,  111.  302  Water  Tank  Train 

Horn  March  17,  1893,  Moweaqua;  farmer;  enl.  June  14. 
1918,  Shelbyville,  111.;  army;  assigned  to  302  Water  Tank 
Train ;  trf.  from  Rahes  School,  Co.  L,  to  Camp  Holabird, 
Co.  F,  August  13,  1918;  sailed  Hoboken  Oct.  13,  1918; 
transport  Mallory ;  landed  at  Brest,  Oct.  26th;  finished 
training  Commercy ;  particular  work,  caring  and  handling 
motor  trucks;  in  hospital  with  influenza;  returned  with  302 
Water  Tank  Train  Dis.  C.  Grant  Aug.  5th. 

_'.     liRIDGMAX,  HOWARD  Corporal 

Moweaqua,   111.  302  Water  Tank  Train 

Horn  April  15,  1895,  Moweaqua;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chas. 
W.  Bridgman;  married  May  9,  1918,  to  Fannie  Powell; 
enl.  June  14,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  302  Water  Tank 
T'r.  (after  training  6  weeks  at  Rahe's  School),  Camp  Hola- 
bird, Md. ;  made  Corporal;  sailed  from  Hoboken  on  Lev- 
iathan Sept.  29 ;  landed  at  Brest  Oct.  7 ;  at  Meuse  Argonne 
32  days.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Aug.  5,  1919. 

3.  BRIGGS,  CLYDE  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                             115  F.  A.,  30  Div. 

Born  Aug.  27,  1886;  son  Geo.  L.  Briggs;  enl.  Oct.  3,  1917, 
Shelbyville;  army;  assigned  84  Div.,  327  F.  A.,  C.  Taylor; 
trf.  to  Batt.  C,  115  F.  A.,  30  Div.,  Camp  Sevier  Apr.  10; 
in  training  9  mps. ;  sailed  from  Hoboken  June  4,  1918; 
transport  Martinia;  at  St.  Mihiel,  Argonne,  Valley  Wover ; 
cited  for  bravery  in  bringing  up  ammunition  under  heavy 
lire.  Dis.  C.  Grant  March  10.  1919. 

4.  BRIGHT,  JESSE  B.  Private 
Moweaqua,  111.               Hdq.  Co.,  308  Field  Art.,  78  Div. 

Born  Aug.  17,  1895,  Boulder,  III.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Geo. 
Bright;  married  Edna  Lawler  Tuly  5,  1919;  enl.  April  30, 
1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to"  308  F.  A.,  Hdq.  Co.,  C. 
Dix;  in  training  3  weeks  4  days;  sailed  from  X.  Y.  May 
27,  1918;  transport  Cedric  ;  landed  Liverpool  June  7,  1918; 
in  trenches  36  days;  at  Toul  sector,  St.  Mihiel,  Suipp  to 
Moselle ;  in  hospital,  kicked  by  horse.  Dis.  C.  Grant 
May  27,  1919. 

5.  BROWN,  B.  A.  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                   Co.  L,   10th  Inf.,  14th  Div. 
Fnl.    May    29,    Shelbyville;    assigned    to    Co.    L,    10    Inf.; 
trained   at    Ft.    Benj.    Harrison    and    at    Camp    Custer.      Dis. 
in   Jan.   at   C.    Custer. 

6.  BROWN,  FORREST  J.  Private 
Middlesworth,   111.                                   Hdq.   Co.,   10th  Inf. 

Son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm.  H.  Brown,  Middlesworth ;  enl. 
May  29,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Ft.  Thomas:  served 
with  Hdq.  Co.,  10th  Inf.,  as  private.  Dis.  Kentucky,  Jan. 
17,  1919. 

7.  BROWN,  OLIVER  CLINTON  1st   Lieut. 
Charleston,   111.                                                129th  Inf.   M.  C. 

Born  Dec.  21,  1888,  Cumberland  Co.,  111.;  son  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  E.  S.  Brown,  Mattoon,  111.;  married  Sept.  22,  1910, 
to  Ethel  Veo  Nichols,  dau.  W.  P.  Nichols;  one  dau.  Veo 
Louise  Brown,  born  Sept.  11,  1911;  physician;  commis- 
sioned June  6.  1917  at  Springfield,  111.;  army;  assigned  to 
130th  U.  S.  Inf.  M.  C.,  formerly  4th  111.  Infantry;  Jan. 
1,  1918,  to  March  8,  1918,  at  Base  Hospital,  Camp  Logan, 
Texas;  March  8,  1918,  to  April  21,  1918,  129th  Inf.  M.  C. 
I)is.  April  21,  1918;  was  discharged  on  account  of  physical 
disability,  bronchial  asthma  and  chronic  bronchitis. 

8.  BROWNLEE,  ROMA  TEMPLETON  Mechanic 
Tower   Hill,   111.                       327   F.   A.,   Bat.   D,   84   Div. 

Born  Oct.  30,  1893,  Cold  Spring  Twp. ;  son  Robert  and 
Mary  M.  Brownlee;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelby- 
ville ;  assigned  327  F.  A.,  Bat.  D,  84  Div. ;  army  cook  for 
4  months,  then  attended  mechanics'  school  3  months  at 
Peoria,  and  promoted  to  mechanic ;  in  training  1  yr. ; 
sailed  Hoboken  Sept.  18,  1918;  transport  Orduna :  landed 
Liverpool,  Eng.,  Sept.  21  ;  finished  training  at  Camp  l)e 
Souge,  France.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  29,  1919. 

9.  BROYLES,  HEADEN  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                             Co.  H,   130th  Inf. 

Born  May  17,  1899,  Indianapolis,  Ind. ;  son  Mrs.  W.  H. 
Carter;  tailor;  enl.  May  17,  1917,  Shelbyville,  111.;  army; 
assigned  to  Co.  H,  130th  Inf.;  in  training  12  months, 
trained  for  rifleman;  sailed  from  Hoboken  May  16,  1918; 
transport  Agamemnon;  landed  at  Brest  May  26,  1918;  in 
trenches  from  July,  1918,  Until  armistice  was  signed;  with 
Co.  H  in  action ;  particular  work,  runner ;  in  hospital,  re- 
turned to  U.  S.  with  Casual  Co.  457.  Dis.  Feb.  21,  1919, 
C.  Grant,  111. 

10.  BRUNS,  W.  CHARLIE  Private 
Stewardson,  111.                               Co.  I,  168  Inf.,  42  Div. 

Born  Chicago;  farmer;  son  Wm.  Bruns,  Stewardson;  enl. 
May  27,  1917,  Glennwood,  la.;  assigned  Co.  I,  168  Inf., 
42  Div.;  served  overseas;  in  hospital  with  measles  and 
pneumonia;  returned'  to  U.  S.  with  Co.  E.  22  Inf.  Dis. 
C.  Wheeler,  Ga.,  Dec.  21,  1919;  married  Cleo  Waneta  Wal- 
lace of  Atwood  on  Jan.  15,  1919. 

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1.  BRYANT,   GEORGE  ROBERT  Private 
Herrick,  111.                                  Co.  G,  38th  Inf.,  3rd  Div. 

Born  .Tune  30,  1890,  near  Herrick;  son  W.  M.  Bryant; 
auto  mechanic  and  farmer;  enl.  Dec.  11,  1917,  Decatur ; 
assigned  Co.  G,  38th  Inf.,  3rd  Div. ;  trained  Camp  Han- 
cock 3  months;  sailed  Hoboken  March  29,  1918;  transport 
Mount  Yernon ;  landed  Brest  April  7 ;  trained  Chaumont 
area;  went  to  trenches  May  30,  1918,  there  1 J^  mos. ;  at 
Chateau  Thierry  and  Marne ;  wounded  by  high  explosive 
shell  near  Mezy,  7  kilometers  to  right  of  Chateau  Thierry, 
July  15th;  in  hospital,  Base  No.  13,  Limoges;  regimental 
flag  decorated  with  French  Croix  de  Guerre  with  Palm ; 
returned  to  U.  S.  with  Co.  I,  337th  Inf.,  85th  Div.  Dis. 
April  26th  C.  Grant. 

2.  BRYSON,  BERTIE  E.  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                        Battery  E,  308  F.  A. 

Born  April  17,  1896;  son  Levi  Bryson  ;  farmer;  enl.  April 
30,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  308  F.  A.,  Camp  Dix ;  sailed 
from  X.  Y.  May  27,  1918;  transport  Cedric ;  landed  Liver- 
pool June  9 ;  in  trenches  2  mos.  22  days ;  at  Toul  sector 
15  days,  St.  Mihiel  4  days,  Marne  offensive  9  days,  Grand 
Pre  14  days,  Meuse  Argonne  24  days.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May 
24,  1919. 

3.  BrCKLER,  PAUL  Corporal 
Oakland,  111.                                     Co.  H,   130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf.;  trained  C.  Logan; 
sailed  May  15,  1918,  Hoboken ;  served  through  with  Co.  H 
in  France  and  later  trf.  to  2d  Bn. ;  discharged  C.  Grant 
June,  1919. 

4.  BULLERMAN,  CHARLES  1st  Cl.  Private 
Shumway,  111.                             Co.  A,   132d  Inf.,   33d   Div. 

Enl.  June  4,  1917,  Chicago;  Co.  A,  132  Inf.,  33  or  Prairie 
Div.;  in  training  at  C.  Logan,  Texas;  sailed  May  16,  land- 
ed May  24,  1918;  in  active  service  July  15-Nov.  11;  in 
foreign  service  one  year;  at  Marne,  Aisne-Marne,  Vesle 
River  and  Meuse  Argonne;  in  Army  of  Occupation  from 
Nov.  11-March  10.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  30,  1919. 

5.  BULLERMAN,  WALTER  1st  Cl.  Private 
Shumway,   111.                             Co.   H,   130th  Inf.,   33   Div. 

Served  throughout  war  with  Co.  H  as  sniper. 

BURRUS,   CECIL  R.  1st  Class  Private 

Covvden,   111.  Batt.   B,  64  Regt.,   Coast  Art.   Corps 

Born  March  19,  1897,  Herrick;  farmer;  son  Joseph  and 
Sophia  Burrus,  Cowden,  111.;  enl.  May  1,  1917,  Decatur; 
sent  lefferson  Bks. ;  assigned  64  Regt.  Coast  Artillery, 
Batt.  B;  trf.  Ft.  Dade  May  11,  1917;  sailed  Hoboken  July 
13,  1918;  transport  Kyber ;  landed  Liverpool;  gunner;  in 
hospital  twice  account  sickness.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Apr.  12, 
1919. 

6.  BURRUS,  MARVIN  Seaman 
Herrick,   111.                                                                     U.  S.   Navy 

Born  Oct.  31,  1896,  Herrick,  111.;  farmer;  son  Frank  and 
Alta  Burrus,  Herrick;  enl.  Dec.  26,  1917,  Chicago,  in  navy; 
sent  Great  Lakes;  sailed  Norfolk,  Va.,  Aug.  18,  1918, 
U.  S.  S.  Oklahoma,  super-dreadnaught ;  about  8  mos.  on 
Irish  coast  watching  for  German  ships.  Dis.  N.  Y.,  Tan. 
20,  1919. 

7.  BURGEN,  JOE  Private 
Pana,   111.                                           Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Enl.  in  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf.;  sent  C. 
Logan  Oct.  9 ;  trf.  at  C.  Logan  to  Med.  Det. ;  remained 
there  until  March  30th;  trf.  to  Ft.  Sheridan,  111.,  General 
Hospital  No.  28 ;  still  in  service. 

8.  BURNETT,  GEORGE  2d  Lieut. 
Shelbyville,   111.                                              130  Inf.,   33   Div. 

Enl.  July  15,  1915,  in  Co.  H;  served  9  mos.  on  border  in 
1916-17;"  left  with  Co.  H,  Oct.  9,  1917,  for  Camp  Logan, 
Texas,  as  Sergeant;  Nov.  17,  com.  2nd  Lieut.;  trf.  to  Co. 
D,  130  Inf.;  sailed  May  15,  1918,  on  U.  S.  S.  Agamemnon; 
landed  France  May  25  ;  July  29  trf.  back  to  Co.  H  ;  Aug. 
30  trf.  to  5th  Army  Corps  Hdqrs. ;  with  26th  Div.  when 
they  entered  Argonne  forest,  was  gassed,  in  hospital  at 
Blois;  left  Brest  Oct.  2,  1918.  Dis.  Nov.  16,  1919. 

9.  BURNETT,  WM.  S.  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                   113th  Engrs.,   7th  Div. 

Born  April  16,  1891,  Shelby  Co.,  son  Thomas  and  Emma 
Burnett;  miner;  enl.  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
to  Co.  D,  113  Engrs.,  38th  Div.,  Camp  Shelby;  sailed 
from  Hoboken  Sept.  15,  1918;  transport  Finland;  landed 
at  Brest  Sept.  28,  1918;  113th  never  directly  under  fire, 
was  at  Verdun  repairing  roads,  etc.,  when  armistice  was 
signed.  Dis.  C.  Grant  June  26,  1918. 

10.  BUTCHER,  GEORGE  Private 
Sigel,  111.                                               Co.  A,  58  Inf.,  4  Div. 

Son  Nancy  Butcher,  Sigel;  enl.  Shelbyville  Sept.  19,  1917; 
assigned  to  327  F,  A.,  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  to  Camp  Pike, 
then  to  Camp  Green  to  4th  Div. ;  served  with  them  at 
Chateau  Thierry,  Vesle,  Somme  Off. ;  wounded  in  the 
Arg-onne  Forest  and  was  erroneously  reported  killed ;  went 
overseas  on  Moldavia  on  which  2  Shelby  Co.  men  lost 
their  lives  when  it  was  torpedoed. 

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1.  BUTLER,   CALVIX  Corporal 
Oconec,   III.                                              327   Field  Art.,  84   Div. 

Born  Oct.  16,  1893,  Oconee ;  farmer;  son  A.  L  and 
Blanche  Butler,  Patia ;  enl.  Oct.  2,  1917,  Shelbyville;  sent 
C.  Taylor;  assigned  Batt.  D,  327  F.  A.:  trained  West 
Point,  Ky. ;  promoted  Cpl. ;  sailed  Xew  York  Sept.  19. 
1917,  on  transport  Orduna;  landed  Liverpool ;  finished 
training  at  C.  de  Souge,  France;  returned  U.  S.  with 
327  F.  A.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  19,  1919. 

2.  BUTLER,   FREDERICK   DAIL  Corporal 
Shelbyville,   III.                          Co.   H.    130th    Inf..  33rd   Div. 

Born  June  23,  1894,  Sullivan;  son  Mrs.  Theresa  Butler; 
mechanic;  married  Aug.  25,  1918,  to  Evalyn  C'larke,  dau. 
Chas.  and  Viola  C'larke;  one  dau.,  Betty  lone  Butler;  enl. 
May  31,  1917,  at  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf..  33rd  Div.; 
made  Corporal  at  Camp  Logan,  Nov.,  1917  ;  in  hospital. 
Dis.  for  disability  Jan.  22,  1918,  at  Camp  Logan.  Drafted 
June  28,  1918,  and  sent  C.  Taylor;  made  Cpl.,  July  11, 
and  served  with  53d  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade  until  dis- 
charged Dec.  5,  1919. 

3.  BUTLER,  JOHX 

Shelbyville,  III.  Co.  H,   130  Inf. 

Born  March  31,  1892,  Sullivan,  111.;  son  Mrs.  Theresa 
Butler;  farmer;  enl.  June  15,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H, 
130  Inf.;  sent  C.  Logan,  Oct.  9,  1917;  trf.  to  Medical 


Corps    March    21,    1918; 
1919;    trf.    Ft.    Sheridan;    still    at 
returned  invalid  soldiers. 
4.     CAIN",  ARTHUR  B. 
Windsor,   111. 


stayed    at    C.    Logan    until    Jan.. 
Ft.    Sheridan   caring    for 


Private 

_  Batt.  C.  5  Bn.  Trench  Art. 

Knl.  in  Coast  Art.  Corps  at  Mattoon,  Feb.  1,  1915;  sent 
Jefferson  Bks.,  Mo.;  after  one  month's  training  trf.  Sandy 
Hook,  X.  J.;  remained  on  coast  until  Sept.  19,  1918,  then 
sent  to  France;  furloughed  to  Reg.  Army  Reserve  April 
8,  1919. 

5.  CALVKRT,  WM.  R.,  JR.  Private 
Westervelt,    III.                                            416  Telegraph   Bn. 

Born  Dec.  30,  1899,  Westervelt;  son  Wm.  R.  and  Margaret 
Calvert ;  telegrapher  before  enlistment,  now  carpenter;  enl. 
May  30.  1918,  Terre  Haute;  army;  assigned  to  Co.  F,  6th 
Depot  Bn.,  Ft.  Leavenworth,  Signal  Corps-;  trained  for 
buzzwe  operator  wireless,  in  training  one  month :  sailed 
from  Hoboken  July  15th;  transport  Themistocles,  attacked 
July  30th  by  submarines,  sank  three  submarines:  landed  at 
Liverpool  Aug.  1;  under  fire  but  not  in  trenches:  served 
as  operator  with  416th  Telegraph  Bn. ;  returned  with  Cas- 
ual Co.  Xo.  4976  on  U.  S.  S.  Buford.  Dis.  June  24,  1919, 
C.  Grant. 

6.  CAMFIELD,  HARRY  E.  Sergeant 
Lakewood,  111.                                       Co.  D.  123  M.  G.  Bn. 

Born  June  24,  1898,  Findlay ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  E. 
Camfield;  shipping  clerk;  enl.  March  26,  1917,  Danville, 
in  Co.  I,  5th  111.  Inf.;  trf.  Dec.  12,  1918.  to  Co.  D,  123 
M.  (i.  Iln.:  promoted  to  Cpl.  Sept.  10,  1917;  to  Sgt.  May 
21,  1918;  trained  as  machine  gunner  C.  Logan  13  months; 
sailed  Hoboken  May  15th,  transport  Agamemnon;  landed 
Brest,  France,  May  24,  1918;  finished  training  in  British 
sector;  went  to  trenches  July  19,  1918,  there  about  80 
days;  at  Amiens  sector,  Flanders  front,  Verdun  front, 
Boise  de  Forges,  Boise  de  la  Cote  Lemont.  Riaville, 
Marcheville,  Meuse  Argonne,  Consonvoye.  Boise  de  Chume, 
Fresner,  Bethencourt ;  severely  gassed  Boise  de  la  Cote 
Lrmont.  Oct.  5,  1918.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  30,  1919. 
CAMPBELL.  CLAREXCE  Private 

Bethany,  HI.  Co.  C,   130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Served  throughout  war  with  Co.  C,  130th  Inf..  33d  Div. 
(old  Sullivan  Militia);  one  of  four  sons  in  service  of  Thos. 
and  Mary  Campbell  of  Bethany ;  re-enlisted  in  Regulars 
and  was  sent  to  a  station  in  Texas  in  summer  of  1919; 
brothers,  Walter,  Karl  S.  and  Win,  and  one  sister  also  in 

.     CAMPBELL,  HARRY  FREDERICK  Corporal 

Mode,   111.  327th  F.  A.,  84  Div. 

Knl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  327  F.  A.;  made 
Cpl.  Oct.  4,  1917,  Camp  Taylor;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  XI. 
Campbell,  Mode;  married  Rose  Slifer  Aug.  20,  1917;  mail 
carrier;  trained  C.  Taylor  and  West  Point,  Ky.,  16  mos. ; 
left  X.  V.  Sept.  8,  1918  on  "Orduna";  landed  Liverpool 
Sept.  21,  1918;  trained  C.  De  Souge.  Dis.  C.  Grant. 

8.  CAMPBELL,  JOHX  J.  1st  Cl.   Private 
Tower  Hill,   111.                      Med.  Dept.   16   F.  A.,  4   Div. 

Born  January  23,  1893,  Tower  Hill;  son  Wm.  T.  and  Mary 
Campbell,  Tower  Hill;  farmer;  enl.  Jan.  17,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville ;  trained  4  .mos.  C.  Greenleaf  and  C.  Green ;  sailed 
Hoboken,  May  10,  1918;  landed  Brest;  finished  training 
Camp  De  Souge;  on  firing  line  106  days;  battles  Aisne- 
Marne,  Toul,  St.  Mihiel,  Argonne.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Aug.  5, 
1919. 

9.  CAMPBELL,  WIN'  Bethany,  111. 
Son  Thomas  and   Mary  Campbell,   Bethany;  brothers  Clar- 
ence,   Earl    and    Walter    in    service,    also    one    sister;    re- 
enlisted    in    regulars    summer    of    1919    and    sent    to    station 
in  Texas. 

10.  CAMPBKLL,  WALTER  Private 
Bethany,   111.                             Co.   C,   130th  Inf..  33rd    Div. 

Born  Xov.  8,  1898;  son  Thomas  and  Mary  Campbell  of 
Bethany;  enl.  July  2,  1914,  Sullivan,  in  130th  Inf.:  in 
training  18  months;  in  trenches  from  July  4.  1918,  until 
armistice  was  signed ;  at  Battle  of  Verdun  and  Albert 
front;  gassed  Xov.  8  at  Verdun  and  in  hospital.  Dis.  C. 
Custer  Dec.  3.  Brothers  Earl  S.,  Clarence,  and  Win,  and 
one  sister  were  in  service. 

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1       CAMPBELL,  HARRY  Private 

Tower  Hill,  111.  Co.  H,   130th  Inf. 

Enlisted,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H,  but  was  discharged  before 
the  outfit  went  overseas. 

2.  CARPENTER,  WALTER  S.  Private 
Westervelt,  111.                                       Co.  H,  10th  Infantry 

Born  Sept.  21,  1895,  near  Westervelt;  son  Ira  W.  and 
Allie  Carpenter  of  Tower  Hill;  asst.  cashier  Farmers  Na- 
tional Bank,  Westervelt;  enl.  May  29,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
sent  Ft.  Thomas,  Ky. ;  later  assigned  to  Co.  H,  10th  Inf., 
Ft.  Harrison;  trf.  to  Camp  Custer ;  in  training  7J4  mos. 
Dis.  C.  Custer  Jan.  17,  1919. 

3.  CARPENTER,  RAY  W.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                          34th  Co.,   Coast  Art.   Corps 

Born  July  6,  1890,  Beecher  City ;  son  C.  W.  and  Alice 
Carpenter  of  Shelbyville;  dairyman;  enl.  Sept.  5,  191JS, 
Shelbyville;  sent  Camp  Custer;  five  weeks  later  to  Ft. 
Totten,  N.  Y. ;  six  days  later  to  Camp  Eustis;  assigned 
to  34  Co.,  C.  A.  C. ;  trained  for  cannoneer.  Dis.  C.  Eustis, 
Va.,  Jan.  17,  1919. 

4.  CARROLL,  JOHN  H.  Private 
Findlay,   111.                                                                      Vet.    Corps 

Born  luly  15,  1891,  Emery,  111.;  son  Thomas  and  Etta 
Carroll',  Findlay;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918.  Shelbyville; 
sent  C.  Taylor;  later  assigned  to  Vet.  Tr.  School,  Camp 
Lee;  in  training  three  months;  sailed  from  Norfolk,  Va., 
Oct.  13th;  transport  Koenig  Wilhelm  ;  landed  at  Brest, 
France,  Oct.  26th.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  3,  1919. 

5.  CARROLL,  LLOYD  R.  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                                                                      Marines 

Born  July  1,  1899,  Moweaqua,  111.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
D.  Carroll,  Westervelt,  111. ;  enl.  marine  corps,  St.  Louis, 
June  16,  1917;  went  direct  to  Paris  Island;  drilled  there 
4  mos.  ;  trf.  Boston  Navy  Yards,  guard  duty  2  mos. ; 
sailed  Battleship  Nebraska,  on  it  4  mos. ;  then  to  Ouan- 
tico,  Va.,  2  mos.;  to  Washington,  D.  C.,  orderly  Admiral 
Benton,  until  dis.  Jan.  10,  1919;  in  April  re-enlisted  for 
overseas  duty,  now  stationed  at  Coblenz.  Brother  Arthur 
died  of  pneumonia  in  France. 

€.     CARROLL,  LAWRENCE  LLOYD          1st  Cl.   Private 
Windsor,  111.  14  Photo  Sec.  Air  Service 

Born  Nov.  26,  1896,  Lintner,  111.  ;  son  M.  P.  Carroll, 
Windsor;  farmer;  enl.  March  2,  1918,  Mattoon ;  assigned 
air  service,  truck  driver;  trained  15^  mos.  Kelly  Field, 
Tex.;  sailed  Hoboken,  Aug.  30,  1918;  landed  Brest,  Sept. 
12;  finished  training  St.  Nazaire ;  Meuse-Argonne  front. 
Dis.  C.  Grant,  June  11,  1919. 

7.  CARROLL,  VERNE  VIRGIL  Corporal 
Windsor,  111.                                        F.  R.  S.  346  Q.   M.  C. 

Born  Sept.  27,  1893,  Lintner,  111.;  son  M.  P.  and  Thera 
Carroll:  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Sullivan;  assigned  to 
15th  Artillery,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky. ;  trf.  Sept.  22,  1918,  to 
F.  R.  S.  346'  Q.  M.  C.,  Jacksonville,  Fla. ;  in  training  12 
months  14  days;  sailed  Hoboken  Oct.  27,  1918;  transport 
S.  S.  Orac;  landed  Liverpool,  England,  Nov.  8,  1918; 
finished  training  at  Bordeaux ;  in  England,  France,  Italy 
and  Germany ;  promoted  to  Corporal,  Lux,  France,  Jan. 
14,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  July  14,  1919. 

8.  CARTMELL,  SAMUEL  H.  Private 
Tower  Hill,  111.                    820th  Aero  Sqdn.,  Kelly   Field 

Born  Tan.  29,  1894,  son  Tliomas  and  Margaret  C'artmell ; 
farmer;  enl.  Oct.  6,  1917,  rejected  Oct.  llth;  2d  time  enl. 
June  14,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Rahe  school,  Kansas 
City;  in  school  2  mos.;  assigned  to  82-0  Aero  Sqdn.,  Kelly 
Field,  till  discharge;  in  hospital  with  blood  poison  8  days; 
developed  leakage  of  heart  while  in  service.  Dis.  Feb.  9, 
1919,  at  Camp  Pike,  Ark. 

9.  CARTER,  THOMAS  HARVEY  Private 
Bruce,  111.                                                     Btry.  D,  3rd  Regt. 

Born  Oct.  22,  1892,  Bruce,  111.;  son  S.  A.  Carter;  married 
Sept,  26,  1917,  to  Ruby  L.  Dawdy,  dau.  J.  C.  Dawdy ; 
one  son,  Thomas  H.  Carter  Jr.,  born  March  27,  1919; 
farmer;  enl.  June  14,  1918;  sent  to  Rahe  auto  and  tractor 
school,  Kansas  City,  Mo. ;  made  motor  mechanic  Nov.  12, 
1918;  transferred  Aug.  18,  1918,  to  Btry.  D,  3rd  Regt., 
Camp  Taylor;  in  hospital,  measles.  Dis.  C.  Taylor,  Ky., 
Dec.  13,  1918. 

10.  CASSTEVENS,  JAMES  D.  Private 
Fancher,  111.                                                                  133rd  Inf. 

Enl.  Sept.  20,  1917,  at  Marion,  Iowa;  farmer.  Dis.  Jan. 
4,  1919,  Camp  Dodge,  Iowa. 

CHANDLER,  ROY  Private 

Herrick,  111.  Co.  II,  3d  Bn.,  22d  Engineers 

Enlisted  June  24,  1918;  sailed  for  France  Aug.  22,  1918; 
served  with  C'o.  H,  3d  Bn.,  22d  Engineers;  sent  to  hospi- 
tal with  infected  foot;  returned  to  U.  S.  July  12,  1919. 
Dis.  C.  Grant  Aug.  1,  1919,  as  member  of  22d  Engineers. 

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,     CASSTEVENS,  FRANK  Chief  Gunner's  Mate 

Kansas  City,  Mo.  U.  S.  Navy 

Horn  Jan.  1,  1887,  Gays,  III.;  son  Mrs.  Anna  Casstevens, 
(lays;  married  Dec.  3,  1912,  to  Florence  R.  Carl,  dau.  J. 
W.  Carl ;  clerk  before  enlistment,  now  mariner.  Kansas 
City,  Mo. ;  enl.  June  14,  1907,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  navy ; 
assigned  to  destroyers,  went  around  the  Morn  with  Fight- 
ing Hob  Evans,  1907-1908;  promoted  Chief  Gunner's  Mate, 
March  9,  1919,  highest  rank  in  enlisted  branch;  instructor 
Seaman  Gunner's  School  at  Torpedo  Station,  Newport,  R. 
I.,  May  1,  1918,  to  Jan.  17,  1919,  instructing  men  in  care 
and  handling  torpedoes,  mines,  etc. ;  given  letter  of  recom- 
mendation, good  conduct  meda!,  Mexican  campaign  medal, 
recommended  for  Ensign  June  2,  1917;  April  6,  1917,  was 
on  the  U.  S.  S.  Perry  and  helped  take  crew  from  German 
ship  Saxonia  at  Seattle,  Wash. ;  went  to  Atlantic  through 
Panama  Canal  for  patrol  duty  until  trf.  Newport,  R.  I. 
Dis.  Boston,  June  4,  1919;  reenlisted  Washington,  June  6; 
now  on  recruiting  duty,  Kansas  City. 

2.  CASSTEVENS,  WILLIAM   MICHAEL  Boatswain 

Gays,  111.  U.  S.  Navy 

Born  July  31,  1884,  Gays ;  son  Mrs.  Anna  Casstevens, 
Gays ;  railroading  before  enlistment ;  enl.  Det.  3,  1907, 
Denver,  Colo.;  assigned  U.  S.  S.  South  Dakota;  promoted 
Boatswain  at  Hong  Kong,  China,  Sept.,  1917;  was  on  U. 
S.  S.  Helena  when  war  was  declared ;  was  trf.  to  the 
Tjtsondari.  a  Holland  ship,  in  Manila,  in  May,  1918,  and 
sailed  for  New  York  via  San  Francisco  and  Panama  Canal ; 
made  several  trips  to  France  during  the  war  carrying  pro- 
visions over  and  troops  back ;  given  expert  rifleman's 
medal  and  good  conduct  medal ;  still  in  navy. 

3.  CECIL,  DWIGHT  L.  2d  Lieut. 
Seymour,  111.                                          Veterinary  Co.  No.   1 

Horn  Sept.  3,  1893,  Stewardson,  111.;  son  of  Robert  E.  and 
Jennie  H.  Cecil,  Windsor ;  veterinarian ;  enl.  Jan.  8,  1918, 
Terre  Haute,  Ind. ;  assigned  Veterinary  Co.  No.  1,  Camp 
Greenleaf,  Ga. ;  promoted  rank  of  2nd  Lieut.  Oct.  22,  1918. 
Dis.  Camp  Joseph  E.  Johnston,  Fla.,  Feb.  19,  1919.  Three 
brothers  in  service. 

4.  CECIL,   EUGENE  2d   Lieut. 
Shelbyville,  111.  A.  S.  A. 

Born  Aug.  20,  1889,  Stewardson,  111.;  son  of  Robert  E. 
and  lennie  Cecil,  Windsor,  111. ;  locomotive  fireman ;  enl. 
Sept.  24,  1917,  Chicago,  HI.;  assigned  U.  S.  School  of 
Mil.  Aeronautics,  Urban  a,  111. ;  commissioned  2nd  Lieut., 
Kelly  Field;  went  overseas  Oct.  17,  1918;  transport  Olym- 
pic; returned  to  U.  S.  as  casual.  Dis.  Feb.  23,  1919,  C. 
Dix.  Three  brothers  in  service. 

5.  CECIL,   IRL  HICKS  Private 
Champaign,  111.                                              66  Ry.  Engineers 

Born  June  22,  1891,  Stewardson;  son  Robert  E.  Cecil, 
Windsor ;  locomotive  fireman ;  enl.  May  20,  1918,  Cham- 
paign ;  assigned  66th  Ry.  Engineers ;  went  overseas  Tune 
30,  1918,  on  Mongolia;"  landed  Brest  July  13,  1918;  re- 
turned with  187  Casual  Co.  Dis.  May  6,  1919,  C.  Grant. 
Three  brothers  in  service. 

6.  CECIL,  WILLIAM   C.  Private 
Windsor,   111.                                                      102  Balloon  Co. 

Born  Feb.  27,  1897,  Piatt  Co.,  111.;  son  of  Robert  E.  and 
Jennie  Cecil,  Windsor;  farmer;  enl.  Feb.  24,  1918,  Mat- 
toon  ;  went  overseas  June  29,  1918,  on  S.  S.  America ; 
landed  Brest  July  13,  1918;  returned  to  U.  S.  with  102 
Balloon  Co.  Dis.  May  20,  1919.  C.  Grant.  Three  broth- 
ers in  service. 


7.      CHAPMAN",  RUSSELL 


Newtonia,   Mo. 


8.  CHERRY,  T'HOS.   E.  Captain 
Cowden,   111.                                                     Med  Corps,  3   Div. 

Born  Nov.  7,  1871,  Shelby  Co.;  son  Geo.  W.  and  Minerva 
Cherry,  Herrick ;  doctor ;  commissioned  July  18,  1917 ; 
Base  Hosp.  64,  79  Div. ;  training  one  year ;  overseas  on 
Belgic.  Aug.  3,  1918 ;  served  in  Base  Hosp.  64,  assistant 
Chief  -Surgical  Service,  Field  Hosp.  No.  91,  with  79  at 
Vrnlun ;  with  3  Div.  in  Army  of  Occupation.  Dis.  in 
fall  of  1919,  from  3  Div. 

9.  CHRISTNKR,   DANIEL  D.  Private   1st   Cl. 
Shelbyville,   111.                                                       336  Supply   Co. 

Enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  15th  Bn.,  Hdq. 
Co.,  Field  Artillery;  trans,  to  336  Supply  Co.,  Camp  John- 
son, Fla. ;  left  there  Oct.  8  for  Hoboken ;  sailed  and 
landed  in  Liverpool  Oct.  26 ;  France  Oct.  28 ;  on  guar*! 
duty  in  intermediate  section  in  France  2  wks.,  then  to 
Brest,  worked  in  warehouse  No.  2  as  issuing  clerk.  Dis. 
Nov.  3,  1919,  Camp  Merritt,  N.  J. 

10.  CHRISTNER,  JOE  D.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                          Co.  I.  139th  Inf.,  39th  Div. 

Born  Dec.  8,  1895,  Gosheii,  Ind.;  son  David  J.  and  Lavina 
Christnci,  Shelby ville,  111.;  farmer;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  at 
Shelbyville ;  army ;  assigned  to  Camp  Taylor  and  trf.  to 
Co.  I,  139th  Inf.,  39th  Div.,  Camp  Beauregard;  in  train- 
ing three  weeks;  sailed  from  Newport  News  July  2-0,  1918; 
landed  at  Brest  Aug.  2,  1918 ;  transferred  to  6th  Div. ; 
went  to  trenches  Oct.  7,  1918;  in  trenches  until  Nov.  llth; 
at  Garadma  sector,  Meuse-Argonne  offensive,  Verdun,  as 
machine  gunner  in  82nd  Inf. ;  particular  work,  machine 
gunner;  in  hospital  two  weeks  after  armistice  was  signed. 
Dis.  C.  Grant,  June  6,  1919. 

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1.  CHRISTIE,  EDWARD  GUY  Private 
Shelby ville,   111.                               Hdq.   Co.,   15   Bn.,  F.  A. 

Born  Sept.  2,  1890,  Lake  City,  111. ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Thomas  Christie;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelby  ville ; 
army;  assigned  to  Hdq.  Co.  15th  Bn.  F.  A.,  C.  Taylor; 
in  training  10  mos.  19  days;  sailed  from  N.  Y.  Oct.  26, 
1918;  transport  Lapland;  landed  at  Liverpool,  Eng.,  Nov. 
9,  1918;  finished  training  at  Camp  Hunt;  in  hospital,  in- 
fluenza, two  weeks.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  16,  1919. 

2.  CHRISTY,  FLOYD  ANCIL  Private 
Cowden,  111.                                                         47  Inf.,  4  Div. 

Son  J.  H.  Christy,  Cowden;  farmer;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  army;  assigned  to  18  Co.,  4  Bn.,  159  D.  I!., 
Camp  Taylor ;  trf.  to  47  Inf.,  4  Div. :  sailed  from  Hoboken 
May  10,  1918;  transport  Princess  Matoka;  landed  at  Brest 
May  23,  1918;  in  trenches  26  days;  at  Chateau  Thierry, 
Marne,  Vesle,  Ourcq  ;  gassed  Aug.  12th;  outfit  cited;  in 
hospital ;  Sept.  22  sent  to  Blois  as  prisoner  escore  Co.  40 ; 
returned  to  47th  Jan.  10,  Debruck,  Germany.  Dis.  C. 
Grant,  Aug.  4,  1919. 

5.     CIHAK,  WILLIS  Corporal 

Cowden,  111.  5th  Regt.,  Marines,  2d  Div. 

Born  Dec.  23,  1889;  son  John  Cihak ;  enl.  April  1,  1918, 
in  marines;  assigned  to  21st  Co.,  Marine  Barracks,  Paris 
Island,  S.  C.;  trf.  to  Quantico,  Va.,  June  27;  Sept.  10,  trf. 
to  5th  Regt.  2nd  Div.;  promoted  to  Cpl.,  Aug.  21,  1918; 
sailed  on  U.  S.  S.  Henderson  from  Phila.,  Aug.  12,  1918; 
landed  Brest;  in  trenches  3  months;  at  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse 
Argonne,  Champagne,  Mont  Blanc,  March  to  the  lihiiie. 
Army  of  Occupation ;  personal  citation  and  Croix  de 
Guerre ;  regiment  also  awarded  citation  and  Croix  de 
Guerre.  Dis.  at  Quantico,  Aug.  13,  1919. 

4.  CLARK,  HORACE  JOHN  Sergeant 
Moweaqua,  111.                                                     Medical  Corps 

Born  April  15,  1895,  Moweaqua;  son  John  Clark;  student 
before  enl.;  enl.  Jan.  26,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to 
medical  corps  attached  to  Air  Service,  Camp  Greenleaf, 
Ga. ;  trf.  to  Kelly  Field,  Texas,  Feb.  8,  1918:  trf.  to  Eberts 
Field,  Ark.,  April  10,  1918;  trf.  to  Post  Field.  Ft.  Sill, 
Okla.,  May  19,  1918;  promoted  to  Sergeant  Aug.  1,  1919, 
Ft.  Sill,  Okla. ;  still  in  army. 

5.  CLARK,  ROY  1st  Cl.   Private 
Moweaqua,  111.                                 Co.  C,  355   Inf.,  89   Div. 

Son  Mrs.  G.  R.  Bridgeman;  enl.  April  26,  1918,  White 
Lake,  S.  D.;  assigned  to  Co.  C,  355  Inf.,  89th  Div.,  Camp 
Funston ;  trained  3  mos.;  sailed  from  X.  Y.,  June  4th; 
transport  Adriatic;  landed  Liverpool  June  16th;  in  trenches 
90  days;  at  St.  Mihiel  and  Argonne;  machine  gun  bullet 
in  left  shoulder  Nov.  4  at  Argonne  Forest,  in  hospital. 
Dis.  C.  Grant  April  15,  1919. 

6.  CLARK,   ROSCOE  T.  Private 
Herrick,   III.                                 Headquarters  Co.,   308   F.   A. 

Born  April  27,  1891,  Moweaqua,  111.;  asst.  cashier  State 
Bank  of  Herrick,  111.,  before  enlistment;  enl.  April  30, 
1918,  Shelbyville,  111.;  army;  assigned  to  Headquarters 
Co.  308  F.  A.  78th  Div.,  Camp  Dix,  X.  J.;  in  training  4 
weeks;  sailed  from  Xew  York  May  27th,  1918;  transport 
Cedric ;  landed  at  Liverpool,  June  8,  1918;  trained  at  Camp 
De  Meucon,  went  to  the  front  in  August,  1918;  entered 
hospital  Sept.  3,  1918,  appendicitis;  returned  with  St.  Aig- 
nan  Casual  Co.  1436.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  April  5,  1919. 

7.  CLAWSOX,  CALVIN  CLYDE  Sergeant  Cook 
Windsor,   111.                           Replacement   Co.   39,   10  Reg. 

Born  Sept.  4,  1890,  Stewardson ;  son  C.  and  Capola  Claw- 
son;  wife  deceased;  one  dau.,  Lela  Elizabeth,  born  Jan.  23, 
1908;  enl.  May  28,  1918,  Effingham ;  assigne:!  to  Replace- 
ment Co.  39,  iO  Replacement  Regt. ;  promoted  to  Instruc- 
tor Cook;  went  to  cooks  and  bakers  school;  in  training 
nine  months.  Dis.  account  of  nervous  breakdown  Jan.  28, 
1919. 

8.  CLAY,   ERXEST   P.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                         Photographic   Div.,   Aviation 

Born  July  31,  1892,  Dalton  City  ;  son  W.  S.  and  Ethel  R. 
Clay;  photographer;  enl.  Dec.  11,  1917,  Mattoon  ;  assigned 
to  Photographic  Div.,  Aviation,  Camp  Grant;  trf.  to  Ft. 
Worth  March  28,  1918,  and  back  to  Grant  Feb.  8,  1919; 
in  training  14  months.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  15,  1919. 

9.  CLOSSER,  DAXIEL  W.  Private 
Tower  Hill,  111.                                               Co.   D.  10th  Inf. 

Enl.  July  18,  1918,  Mattoon;  sent  to  Jefferson  Bks. ;  from 
there  to  Custer ;  assigned  to  Co.  D,  10  Inf.;  in  service 
6  mos.  Dis.  Custer,  Jan.  18,  1919. 

10.  COBURX,  DALLAS  D.  Private 
Moweaqua,  111.                                          Co.  H,  22nd  Engrs. 

Enl.  June  24,  1918,  Vandalia;  army;  assigned  to  Co.  H, 
22nd  Engrs. ;  in  training  six  weeks;  sailed  from  Montreal, 
Aug.  20,  1918,  transport  Valacia ;  returned  after  13  days 
out  and  re-shipped  on  Port  Lincoln :  landed  at  Liverpool 
Sept.  16,  1918;  detailed  close  to  St.  Mihiel  front;  in  hos- 
pital. Dis.  C.  Grant  July  20,  1919. 

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1.  COCAGXE,  JOSEPH   ISADORE  Private 
Assumption,  111.                Battery  F,  2  Keg.,  F.  A.  R.  D. 

Horn  July  18,  1895;  son  E.  J.  Cocagne ;  farmer;  enl.  Tune 
28,  1919,  Shelbyville;  assigned  53rd  Co.,  159  I).  I!.,  Camp 
Taylor;  trf.  17  Co.,  159  D.  Ii.,  with  rank  o(  Cpl. ;  trf.  to 
Battery  F,  2  Reg.  F.  A.  R.  I).,  rank  of  private;  in  train- 
ing- nearly  six  months  for  truck  driver  in  light  artillery. 
His.  Dec.  17,  1918. 

2.  COFFMAX,  OTHIE  E.  Private 
Westervelt,  HI.                                Spruce  Oiv.,  A.  S.  O.  P. 

Horn  Sept.  4,  1895,  Shelby  Co. ;  son  Mrs.  W.  E.  Coffman, 
Westervelt;  farmer;  June  23,  1918,  entered  limited  service; 
assigned  to  Spruce  Div.  A.  S.  O.  P.,  Spruce  Mill  at  Ban- 
don.  Ore.;  discharged  Vancouver  Barracks  Dec.  12,  1918; 
served  entire  time  in  gathering  spruce  for  airplanes. 

3.  COHOOX,   EARL  E.  Private 
Lakewood,  111.                                              Co.  D,  37th  Regt. 

Born  1893,  Lakewood;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Cohoon ; 
miner;  enl.  Shelbyville  and  sent  to  Jeff  Bks.,  May  23,  1918; 
in  training  13  mos.;  border  service  at  Ft.  Mclntosh,  Tex., 
until  discharge  in  Aug.,  1919. 

4.  COLE,  WALTER  LUTHER  Yeoman 
Westervelt,   111.                                                              U.   S.    Xavy 

Born  Oct.  6,  1888,  Redfield,  S.  Dak.;  stenographer;  enl. 
July  5,  1917,  Peoria ;  navy;  enl.  as  second  class  seaman, 
but  changed  on  June  1,  1918,  to  Yeoman  third  class,  and 
six  months  later  was  promoted  to  yeoman  second  class; 
sailed  Aug.  1  on  transport  Kittery  from  Phila.  to  Virgin 
Island;  landed  at  St.  Thomas  about  middle  of  Aug.;  at 
St.  Thomas,  St.  Croix,  San  Domingo  and  Cuba.  l)is.  at 
Great  Lakes,  Sept.  15,  1919. 

5.  COLLINS,   TAMES  W.  Private 
Springfield,   111.                                                            Co.,  4th   Inf. 

Born  May  28,  1895,  St.  Francisville,  111.;  son  W.  W. 
Collins,  Springfield;  barber;  enl.  May  1,  1917,  Windsor, 
in  Coast  Artillery  ;  was  trf.  to  Co.  I,  4th  Inf. ;  in  training 
one  year  at  Fort  Wright,  N.  Y.,  Gettysburg,  Pa.,  Charles- 
ton, S.  C.,  Xewport  News,  Va. ;  sailed  from  Newport  Xews 
Tuly,  1918;  transport  Great  Northern;  landed  Brest  May 
3.  1918;  at  Marne,  Verdun,  St.  Mihiel,  2nd  Battle  of  the 
Marne,  Chateau  Thierry;  wounded  in  foot,  Xov.  7,  1918, 
in  battle  of  Verdun,  in  hospital;  3J*2  months  later  re- 
turned to  outfit  and  sent  on  to  Germany ;  given  one  sharp- 
shooter medal. 

6.  <'<)MBS,  CLAUDE   E.  1st   Cl.    Sergeant 
Findlay,  111.                                          127   Engineers,   Co.   A. 

Son  .Ur.  and  Mrs.  E.  S.  Combs;  born  Oct.  15,  1896;  enl. 
May  29,  1918,  at  St.  Louis;  army;  assigned  to  127  Enijrs. ; 
in  training  five  mos.;  sailed  from  X.  Y.  Oct.  20,  1918; 
transport  Wegantic;  landed  at  Liverpool  Oct.  31,  1918; 
at  C'amp  Angers,  France;  made  Sgt.  1st  cl.,  April  1,  1919. 
Lis.  C.  Taylor  July  25,  1919. 

7.  COMMERFERD,  WILLIAM  Private 
Pana,  111.                                           Co.   H,   133  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Served  with  Co.  H  throughout  service ;  sent  C.  Logan 
Oct.  9,  1917;  sailed  May  15,  1918;  returned  U.  S.  May 
22,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant  in  June,  1919. 

8.  COXXOR,  FRED  Sergeant 
Beason,   111.                                                                           Q.    M.   C. 

Born  March  13,  1890;  son  Wm.  and  Elizabeth  Connor; 
enl.  Aug.  16,  1916,  Ft.  Sheridan;  assigned  Co.  H,  4th  111. 
N.  G.;  trf.  to  6th  A.  C.  Hdq.,  Feb.  1,  1919;  was  in  the 
same  patrol  with  Roy  Vanderpool  when  wounded  and 
helped  to  rescue  him  and  carry  him  back  to  lines ;  was 
male  Cpl.  Aug.  1917,  and  Sgt"  Aug.  1918;  Q.  M.  Sgt., 
Feb.  1,  1919;  sailed  from  Hoboken  May  16,  1918;  trans- 
port Agamemnon;  landed  at  Brest  May  24,  1918;  in 
trenches  from  July  20-Xov.  1 1  ;  at  Albert,  Amiens,  Verdun, 
Meuse  Argonne,  St.  Mihiel,  Troyon  sector,  Marcheville; 
dis.  C.  Grant  Tune  6,  1919.  Served  with  Co.  H  on  border, 
1916-1917;  mustered  out  Ft.  Sheridan,  March  15,  1917; 
called  back  in  service  July  25,  1917,  and  served  with  Co. 
H  until  Feb.  1,  1919. 

9.  COXXOR,  OSCAR  Private 
Clarksburg,   111.                                             Co.   L,  22nd   Eng. 

Born  Jan.  25,  1894,  Pulaski  Co.;  son  Jas.  A.  and  Ella 
Connor;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville,  111.;  army; 
assigned  to  Co.  L,  22nd  Eng.,  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  to  Ft. 
Harrison;  trf.  to  Merritt;  in  training  two  months;  sailed 
from  Xew  York  Sept.  1,  1918;  landed  at  Bordeaux  Sept. 
14,  1918;  in  training  north  of  Toul ;  at  Tour  front;  in 
hospital,  mumps,  measles  and  push  car  accident;  became  a 
casual  but  later  trf.  back  to  original  outfit.  Dis.  C.  Tay- 
lor Tuly  3,  1919. 

10    'COXRAD,  RALPH   E.  Private 

Cowden,   111.  Co.  H,   130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  W.  Conrad;  Oct.  25.  1916,  enl.  in  Co. 
H,  4th  111.  Xat.  Guards,  later  made  Co.  130  Inf.,  33  Div. ; 
trf.  to  Hq.  Co.  13-9  Inf.;  sailed  Hoboken  May  16,  1918; 
transport  Agamemnon;  landed  Brest  May  26,  1918;  at 
Meuse  Argonne,  Mt.  Donninous  Gercourt,  Boise  De 
Chame,  Somme,  Amiens,  Albert  sector,-  with  English  at 
Verdun,  Morlancourt;  in  hospital,  pneumonia.  Dis  C. 
Grant  May  31,  1919. 

CULBERSON,  LOUIS  H.  Sergeant 

Pana,   111.  Co.  D,  3d  Sup.  Train 

Born 

Oct. 

mad 

1918;   

U-au  Thierry,  St.  Mihiel.  Argonne-Meuse  off.,  Army  of 
Occupation;  13  drivers  in  Co.  decorated  by  Div.  Com. 
lis.  C.  Grant,  Sept.  5,  1919. 

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1.  CORDRAY,  GUY  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                      Co.   H,   130th   Inf.,   33rd   Div. 

Born  Dec.  1,  1894,  Shelbyville,  III.;  son  Noble  and  Susa 
Cordray,  Findlay,  111.;  carpenter;  enl.  June  5,  1917,  Na- 
tional Guard;  assigned  to  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.;  in 
training  11  months  15  days;  sailed  from  Hoboken  May  6, 
1918;  transport  Agamemnon;  landed  at  Brest  May  24. 
1918'.  went  to  trenches  Aug.  11,  1918,  and  remained  until 
armistice  was  signed;  at  Argonne,  St.  Mi.hiel,  Somme, 
Meuse  Argonne;  in  hospital.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  31,  1919. 

2.  CORLEY,  JOHN  SUTTON  Corporal 
Herrick,  111.              Co.  C  5th  Field  Signal  Bn.,  3rd  Div. 

Born  March  11,  1887,  Herrick;  son  Mrs.  W.  F.  Corley  ; 
enl.  Aug.  13.  1917,  Wichita,  Kans. ;  assigned  Co.  C  5th 
Field  Signal  Battalion,  3d  regular  army  division  ;  promoted 
to  Cpl.  July  16,  1919,  in  Germany;  in  training  at  Fort 
Leavenworth,  Kans.,  from  Sept.  1917,  to  Feb.  1918;  sailed 
Hoboken  Feb.  27,  1918;  transport  Agamemnon;  landed 
Brest  March  11,  1918;  at  Aisiie  Def.,  Chateau  Thierry, 
C'hampagne-.Marne,  Aistie-Marne,  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse-Ar- 
gonne,  Army  of  Occupation  ;  operator  and  lineman  in  sig- 
nal corps.  Dis.  C.  Dodge  Aug.  31,  1919. 

3.  COSART,   ERXEST  B.  Private   1st  Cl. 
Cowden.  111.                                           Co.  D,  102  M.  G.  Bn. 

Knl.  Shelbyville,  May  27,  1918  ;  sent  Camp  Shelby  ;  landed 
in  France  early  in  October,  1918,  and  assigned  to  102d 
Machine  Gunners;  returned  April  17,  1919,  to  States  and 
honorably  discharged  at  C.  Grant  April  28,  1919. 

4.  COUI.TAS,  JESSE  W.  Private 
Moweaqua,  111                     53rd  Co.,   14  Bn.,  159  D.   Brig. 

Was  inducted  in  the  military  service  of.  the  United  States 
on  the  28th  day  of  June,  1918;  assigned  to  53rd  Co.,  159th 
Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Zachary  Taylor,  Ky.  Dis.  Dec.  21st. 

5.  COURTRIGHT,  HARRY  Coast    Defense    Master 
Shelbyville,  111.                          Gunner,  Sandy  Hook,  X.   I. 

Born  Feb.  11,  1887,  Shelbyville;  son  Mrs.  Maggie  Court- 
right:  city  letter  carrier;  enl.  Nov.  16,  1917,  Mattoon,  in 
Coast  Artillery,  Sandy  Hook,  N.  J. ;  promoted  to  Regi- 
mental Master  Gunner,  Jan.  11,  1918,  to  First  Class  Gun- 
ner Feb.  10,  to  Sergeant  Feb.  19,  1918;  served  as  instruc- 
tor in  mathematics  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  at  Fort  Hancock  for 
six  months;  in  hospital,  influenza.  Dis.  Ft.  Hancock, 
Sandy  Hook,  N.  J.,  Dec.  11,  1918. 

6.  COURTRIGHT,  VANCE  Captain   Co.   H  and   Co. 
Shelbyville,  111.           D,   130th  Inf.,  &   Postal  Exp.  Serv. 

Postal  employee,  Shelbyville ;  wife,  Charity  Wilson  Court- 
right  ;  pvt.,  14th  Regt.,  Ohio  Nat.  Guard,  1894-97 ;  Sgt. 
and  Color  Sgt.,  4th  Regt.,  111.  Nat.  Guard,  1903-05;  1st 
Lieut.,  Co.  H,  4th  111.  N.  G.,  1905-11  ;  2d  Lieut.,  Bn.  Q.  M. 
and  Commissary  4th  I.  N.  C..,  1911-12;  1st  Lieut.,  Bn. 
Adjt..  4th  I.  N.  G.,  1912-17;  Mexican  border  service,  June 
19,  1916-Mar.  15,  1917,  as  part  of  12th  Div.,  Capt.  Co.  H, 
Apr.  20,  1917-Jan.,  1917;  trf.  to  Co.  D,  130th  Inf.,  Ian.  1, 
1918;  served  to  Aug.  23,  1918,  with  33  Div.  on  Somme 
defensive,  Amiens  and  part  of  Somme  offensive ;  trf.  Postal 
Exp.  Service,  and  assigned  to  duty  at  Gievres,  France,  in 
charge  A.  P.  ().  Nos.  713  and  713A;  charge  of  registry 
div.  Central  Post  Office,  A.  P.  O.  902,  Bourges,  France, 
Mar.  1-31,  1919;  assigned  as  C.  O.  Special  Casual  Co. 
4259,  arriving  in  U.  S.  Sept.  10,  1919.  Honorably  dis- 
charged Sept.  12,  1919. 

7.  COX,   ARTHUR   C.  Corporal 
Shelbyville,  111.                        301   Clothing  Unit,  91st  Div. 

Born  Jan.  27,  1897,  Shelbyville,  student;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
A.  L.  Cox.  Shelbyville;  enl.  May  29,  1918,  St.  Louis;  sent 
Jefferson  Bks. ;  trf.  C.  Joseph  E.  Johnston,  Fla. ;  assigned 
331  Unit,  91  Div. ;  made  Cpl.  at  C.  Johnston ;  trained  2 
mos. ;  sailed  Newport  News,  Aug.  15,  1918,  on  "Patricia"; 
under  fire  25  days;  active  service  at  St.  Mihiel,  Argonne, 
Hindenburg  line;  trf.  in  Belgium,  was  on  detached  service 
with  Co.  A,  316  Amm.  Tr.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  2,  1919. 

8.  COX,  JACK  Private 
Shelbyville,  III.                    137  F.  A.,  63  Brigade,  38  Div. 

Enl.  May  27,  1918,  Ilillsboro  ;  assigned  137  F.  A.,  38  Div.; 
sailed  Oct.  6,  1918.  Dis.  Jan.  17,  1919. 

9.  COX,   LESLIE   EMERSON  Cook 
Decatur,   111.                              Hdq.  Det.  63rd  Field  A.   B. 

Born  June  26,  1890,  Moweaqua;  son  Geo.  E.  Cox;  cook; 
called  into  service  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
Hqs.  Detachment  63rd  Field  Artillery  Brigade,  Camp  Shel- 
by, Miss.;  promoted  to  1st  class  private  in  Nov.;  to  cook 
in  Dec.;  sailed  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  Oct.  6,  1918;  transport 
Emjiress  of  Britain;  landed  Liverpool,  England,  Oct.  17, 
1918;  had  just  gone  into  training  at  Camp  De  Mencon, 
France,  when  armistice  was  signed:  sailed  Dec.  17,  1918; 
landed  X.  Y.  Dec.  24,  1918.  Dis.  Ft.  Harrison,  Ind.,  Jan. 
18,  1919. 

10.  CROW,  ALFRED  Farrier 
Oconee,   111.                               5th  Vet.   Replacement  Unit. 

Farmer:  son  Tames  Crow,  formerly  of  Oconee;  enl.  June 
27,  1918.  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor,  53rd  Co.  159th 
D.  B. :  trf.  in  July  to  Camp  Lee,  Va.,  8th  Co.  Vet.  Train- 
ing School;  Aug.  17  trf.  13th  Vet.  Hosp.  Unit;  taken  sick 
with  influenza  and  thus  prevented  from  going  across;  trf. 
after  leaving  hospital  to  5th  Vet.  Repl.  Unit ;  sent  to  Camp 
Merritt  early  in  Xov. ;  armistice  signed  before  unit  sailed. 
Dis.  Jan.  17,  1919,  C.  Taylor. 

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1.     CRESS,  GUSTAV  H.  Corporal 

Strasburg,  111.  Co.  M,  119  Inf.,  30  Div. 

Born  April  17,  1894,  Strasburg,  111.;  son  of  John  Cress  Sr. ; 
farmer:  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918;  army;  assigned  to  !8th  Co., 
S4th  Div.,  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  March  21,  1918.  to  Sevier, 
to  30th  Div.,  Co.  M,  119th  Inf.;  promoted  to  Cpl.  Oct.  15, 
1918;  sailed  from  Boston  May  12,  1918;  transport  Loam- 
adon ;  ship  ran  into  transport  in  English  Channel :  landed 
at  Calais,  France,  May  28,  1919;  in  trenches  about  six 
weeks;  at  Ypres,  Bellecourt.  Dis.  C.  Grant  April  14,  1919. 

_'.     CRESS,  ROBERT  Private 

Strasburg,    fll.  9   Amm.   Trait, 

Born  lulv  5,  1892;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Cress;  married 
I.ydia  Fullride  Apr.  20,  1919;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918, 
Shelbyville ;  sent  to  53d  Co.,  Camp  Taylor  and  assigned 
to  9th  Amm.  Tr.  at  McClellan  Sept.  17th;  in  training  7 '/i 
mos.  His.  C.  Grant  Feb.  13,  1919. 

3.     CROTCH,   LESTER  V.  Sergeant 

Findlay,  111.  Co.  C,  130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Horn  March  26,  1894;  enl.  July  27,  1917.  Sullivan,  in  Co. 
C,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.;  made  Cpl.,  Sullivan,  Aug.,  1917, 
Sgt.  in  France,  June  24,  1918;  trained  9  mos.  at  C'amp 
Logan;  sailed  from  X.  Y.,  May  16,  1917;  landed  May  24, 
1^17,  Brest:  at  Verdun,  St.  Mihiel,  Chippilly  Ridge.  Meuse 
Argonne,  Ilamel  and  other  outpost  fights;  gassed  at 
Meuse,  in  hospital  60  days;  honor  guard  for  Gen.  Persh- 
ing.  His.  C.  Grant. 


4.     CROTCH.  STANLEY  F. 
Findlay,  111. 


Sergeant 
Co.  C,  130th  Inf.,  33    Div. 


Born  Sept.  3,  1895,  Willisburg,  Ky. :  son  J.  II.  Crouch; 
carpenter;  enl.  June  3,  1917,  in  Co.  C,  4th  Inf.;  outfit  af- 
terwards made  C'o.  C,  130th  Inf.:  promoted  to  Cpl.  at 
Sullivan,  to  Sgt.  at  Houston,  Texas,  Oct.  5,  1917:  in 
training  one  year;  sailed  May  16,  1918,  from  New  York ; 
transport  Agamemnon:  landed  at  Brest  May  24,  1918;  in 
trenches  3  mos.  with  British,  French  and  American  armies; 
at  Albert.  Argonne,  Meuse,  Ilamel.  Troyon :  outfit  was 
awarded  118  American  medals,  32  British,  47  French,  1 
Belgian.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  31,  1919. 


CRTITT,  JAMES 
Shelbyville,  III. 


Wagoner 

Supply  Co.,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 
Born  Aug.  1,  1894,  Duval ;  farmer;  enl.  May  31,  1917, 
Shelbyville,  in  130th  Inf.,  33rd  Div.;  trained  at  Camp 
Logan;  in  training  10  months;  sailed  from  X.  Y.  May 
16th;  landed  at  Brest  May  24.  1918:  with  outfit  in  all 
engagements;  particular  work,  mechanic;  in  hospital,  con- 
tused hand.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  30,  1919. 

6.     CTLBERSOX,  D.  R.  Private 

Pana,   111.  Co.  H,  22nd  Engineers 

Enl.  June  26,  1918,  Taylorville,  111.;  farmer;  sailed  from 
T.  S.,  Aug.  22,  1918;  returned  July  12,  1919.  Dis.  C. 
Grant  July  21,  1919. 


7.     CTI.BERSOX.  HARRY  T.  Private 

Shelbyville,   111.  Bat.   D,  327   F.   A..  84    Div. 

Born  Jan.  6.  1892;  son  Mrs.  Alice  M.  Culberson.  Shelby- 
ville; married  Ruby  Winson  Feb.  14,  1919;  farmer;  enl. 
Oct.  3,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Bat.  D,  327  F.  A.. 
X-tth  Div.,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.  Dis.  Xov.  6,  1917,  on  ac- 
count of  weak  lungs. 


X.     CTRRY,    BRUCE  Corporal 

Strasburg,   111.  First  Corps  Artillery  Park. 

Born  July  23,  1889,  Windsor;  son  Silas  C.  and  Mattie  F. 
Curry.  Strasburg;  clerk;  enl.  Dec.  15,  1917,  Jefferson  Bar- 
racks, Mo.:  assigned  First  Corps  Artillery  Park;  made  cpl. 
April  1,  1918;  trained  Camp  Jackson,  S.  C.  4  months; 
sailed  Hoboken  May  22,  1918;  transport  Great  Northern; 
landed  Brest  May  31,  1918;  at  Aisne-Marne  offensive, 
Oise-Aisne  offensive,  Chateau  Thierry  sector,  Verdun  sec- 
tor, Meuse-Argonne  offensive,  Army  of  Occupation; 
truck  driver.  Dis.  Camp  Grant,  Aug.  11,  1919. 


9.     CTRRY,    HAROLD    X.  Private 

Gays,   111.  47th  Art.  C.  A.   C. 

Enl.  at  Mattoon  May  30,  1918;  assigned  to  47th  Art.  C. 
A.  C. ;  in  service  at  Ft.  Caswell,  X.  C.,  and  Eustis  Va. ; 
went  to  France  Oct.  1,  1918.  Dis.  at  C.  Grant,  March  J7, 
1919. 


HI.      CTRRY,   LESTER  O.  Private. 

Assumption,  111.  Co.  M.   160  D.   B. 

Born  April  3,  1890,  Macon,  Ga. ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  R. 
Curry:  enl.  Sept.  4,  1918;  sent  Camp  Custer :  assigned 
Co.  M.  160  Depot  Br. ;  in  training  SVi  mos.:  in  hospital 
2  weeks.  Dis.  Dec.  10,  1918;  Camp  Custer,  Mich. 

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1.  CURRY,  ODA  E.  Corporal 
Gays,  111.                                                  Battery  F.  327  F.  A. 

Born  Oct.  6,  1887,  Gays;  son  D.  S.  Curry;  May  19,  1916, 
married  Mayme  A.  Wetherell,  dau.  of  Chas.  Wetherell ; 
enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Sullivan;  assigned  Btry  F.  327  F.  A.; 
in  training  at  C.  Taylor  and  West  Point  18  mos. ;  made 
cpl.  July  6,  1918;  sailed  Hoboken  Sept.  9,  1918,  transport 
Orduna :  landed  Liverpool  Sept.  21,  at  Camp  De  Souge, 
France.  Dis.  at  C.  Grant  Feb.  20,  1919.  Twin  brother 
died  in  France. 

2.  CUSHMAN,  WALTER  A.  Corporal 
Mode,   111.                             Hdq.   Co.,    119th  Inf.   30th  Div. 

Born  Sept.  4,  1895,  Mode;  son  Lyman  A.  Cushman ;  rail- 
road brakeman;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918;  sent  C.  Taylor;  trf. 
Camp  Sevier,  S.  C. ;  assigned  Hdq.  Co.  119th  Inf.  30th 
Div.  as  1  pound  gunner;  sailed  from  Philadelphia,  trans- 
port Calcutta,  June  28,  landing  Winchester,  Eng.,  July 
17;  in  trenches  3  months,  at  Ypres,  St.  Quentin,  Vormee- 
sel,  major  operations  of  Somme,  Hellicourt,  Prement,  Vu- 
signy,  Escafut,  St.  Benin,  St.  Souplet,  Ribeauville.  Ma- 
zengheim ;  mustard  gas  burns  St.  Souplet,  Oct.  17;  in 
hospital  2  mos. ;  returned  to  outfit  as  ammunition  car- 
rier;  made  corporal  Feb.  4,  1919,  Beaumont,  France.  Dis. 
Camp  Grant,  April  14,  1919. 

3.  CUTLER,   PHILIP  LESTER  Sergeant 
Shelbyville,   111.                                        Guard  and   Fire   Co. 

Born  July  2,  1884,  Shelbyville;  son  Mrs.  Julia  Cutler; 
married  July  3,  1918,  to  Pearl  Kircher,  dau.  Louis  and 
Elizabeth  Kircher ;  tailor  before  enlistment,  now  grocer ; 
enl.  July  30,  1918.  Shelbyville;  assigned  Syracuse  Rect. 
Camp,  N.  Y.  to  Guard  and  Fire  Co.,  Q.  M.  C.  at  Camp 
Merritt;  made  Mess  Sgt.  Oct.  28,  1918;  in  training  5 
months;  was  member  of  Co.  H.  on  border  in  1916.  Dis. 
at  Camp  Grant  Jan.  4,  1919. 

4.  DARST,  JAMES  IRI.  2nd  Lieut. 
Pana,  111.  Infantry 

Born  Feb.  3,  1896,  Tower  Hill;  salesman;  son  B.  M. 
Darst,  Pana;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Feb.  22,  1918;  assigned  18 
Co.  159  Depot  B.,  C.  Taylor;  promoted  cpl.  March  1;  en- 
tered 4th  0.  T.  C.  June  2,  1918,  C.  Sherman;  received 
commission  2nd  Lieut.  Aug.  26 ;  assigned  Co.  E.  casual 

B.  X.,   C.  Merritt.     Dis.  C.   Merritt,  May   10,   1919. 

DAVIES,  W.   GRIFFITH  Windsor,   III. 

DAVIS,   BERT  Moweaqua,   111. 

5.  DAVIS,   EVERETT  L.  Private 
Stewardson,  111.                                         137  F.  A.  38th  Div. 

Enlisted  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  to  Camp  Shelby,  Miss.; 
sailed  for  France  Oct.  6  with  38th  Div.;  returned  Dec. 
15,  1918.  Dis.  at  Camp  Merritt,  Jan.  21,  1919. 

6.  DAVIS,  JOSEPH   BROWNING          Yeoman   3d   Class 
Shelbyville,   111.  Co.   D.   24th  Regt. 

Born  July  29,  1896,  Clarksburg;  brakeman;  son  David  C. 
and  Eunice  S.  Davis,  Shelbyville:  enl.  Great  Lakes,  Tuly 
29,  1918;  assigned  Co.  480,  8th  Reg.  Camp  Decatur ;  pro- 
moted yeoman  3d  class.  Great  Lakes,  Feb.  4,  1919.  Dis. 

C.  Berry,    Mar.    28,    1919.      Hospital    with   pneumonia    and 
influenza  Sept.    14-Jan.    11. 

7.  DAVIS,  NEWTON  C.,  Aerial  Gunner 
Findlay,  111.                                            Naval  Aviation  Corps 

Born  Nov.  21,  1896,  Findlay;  son  John  M.  Davis;  enl.  in 
land  aviation;  sent  Fort  Wayne,  Detroit,  Mich.,  then  to 
Tex. ;  trfd.  naval  aviation,  Great  Lakes ;  trfd.  flying  sta- 
tion, Pensacola,  Fla.  ;  aerial  gunner;  one  of  five  occupants 
of  seaplane  which  dropped  1,000  ft.  into  Gulf  of  Mexico 
150  miles  from  shore;  rescued  by  tugboat.  Dis.  Pensacola, 
Fla.,  Mch.,  1919. 

8.  DAVIS,   RAYMOND   I.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                               Co.   II.    130   Inf.,   33   Div. 

Enl.  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.;  sent  Camp  Logan,  Tex., 
Oct.  10,  1917;  trained  7  mos.;  sailed  Hoboken,  May  14, 
1918;  active  service  Meuse-Argonne,  Somme,  Amiens, 
Verdun,  Albert  Front,  Marcheville,  Army  of  Occupation. 
Dis.  C.  Grant,  June,  1919. 

9.  DAVIS,  REASON  J.  Corporal 
Windsor,   111.                                             Co.   A,   17   Battalion 

Born  May  16,  1896,  Moultrie  Co. ;  son  C.  W.  Davis,  Wind- 
sor, 111.;  farmer;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville,  army 
to  C.  Taylor,  then  C.  Sevier,  S.  C. ;  assigned  to  Co.  A, 
17th  Bn.:  made  Corp.  Jan.  6,  1919;  trnsf.  from  Sevier 
to  Ft.  McPherson,  from  McPherson  to  Green,  N.  C.  Dis. 
at  Camp  Grant,  111.,  Jan.  14.  1919. 

10.  DAVIS,  SAMUEL  C.  1st  Lieut. 
Beecher   City,    111.                      Co.    C,    131    Inf.,    33    Div. 

Enl.  in  Co.  H;  sent  C.  Logan,  Tex.,  Supply  Sgt.,  Oct.  10, 
1917;  trained  7  mos.;  commissioned  2d  Lieut.  Nov.  19, 
1917;  later  1st  Lieut.;  sailed  Hoboken,  May  14,  1918; 
trfd.  Co.  C,  131  Inf.;  over  top  5  times;  active  service 
Meuse-Argonne,  Troyon  Sector,  Chipilly  Ridge,  Army  of 
Occupation ;  Regtl.  Intelligence  Officer.  Dis.  C  Grant, 
June,  1919. 

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1.  DAY,  HARRY  WARREX,  E.  2  C.  (Ro.) 
Champaign,  111.  U.   S.    Navy 

Born  Tune  15,  189-t,  Shelby  villc ;  instructor  U.  of  I.;  enl. 
Feb.  18,  1918,  Peoria ;  assigned  Radio  School,  Great 
Lakes,  as  L.  E.  R. ;  promoted  to  E  2  C.  (Ro)  Nov.  1, 
1918,  at  Cambridge,  Mass.;  in  training  one  year.  Released 
from  active  service  at  Seattle,  Wash.,  Feb.  11,  1919. 

2.  DEAL,    GROVER   CLEVELAND  Private 
Cowclen,    111.                                        10th    Infantry,    14    Div. 

Enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville ;  sent  C.  Custer.  Mich.; 
served  with  10th  Infantry  until  discharged  in  1919. 

3.  DEARING,   I1RADFORD  FRENCH   1st   Lieut.   M.   C. 
Shi-Ihyvillc,    111.  li.   H.   Xo.   56 

Horn  March  1,  1890,  Shelbyville;  physician ;  son  of  Brad- 
ford P.  and  Addie  F.  Dearing,  Shelbyville ;  enl.  Nov., 
1917,  St.  Louis;  trained  as  med.  officer  Base  llosp..  Camp 
Jackson,  S.  C. ;  commissioned  1st  Lt.  Med.  Corps  Dec., 
1917;  sailed  for  France  from  Hoboken,  Aug.  3,  1918, 
landed  Brest;  assigned  li.  H.  Xo.  56.  Dis.  Camp  Dix, 
May  5,  1919. 

4.  DEWEESE,   FRANK  Wagoner 
Shelbyville,    111.                 Supply   Co.    130th   Inf.    33rd    Div. 

liorn  March  15,  1889,  Shelby  Co.;  son  Hiram  and  Bettie 
Deweese ;  laborer;  enl.  June  2,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co. 
H,  130th  Inf.  33rd  Div.;  made  Sgt.  at  Camp  Logan;  in 
training  1 1  ^  mos. ;  sailed  from  Iloboken  May  16,  1918, 
transport  Agamemnon;  landed  Brest  May  24,  1918;  in 
trenches  from  July  4,  1918,  to  Xov.  12,  1918;  at  Argonne, 
St.  Mihiel,  Somme,  Verdun,  Troyon,  Army  of  Occupa- 
tion. Dis.  at  Camp  Grant,  May  30,  1919. 

5.  DEWEESE,    PEARLIE  Private    (cook) 
Shelbyville,  111.                            Co.  II,  130th   Inf.,  33   Div. 

liorn    July   6,    1894,    Edgewood,    111.;    farmer;    enl.    Tune   4, 

1917,  Shelbyviile,    in    Co.    H,     130th    Inf.;    was    cook    at 
Camp    Logan,    Houston,    Texas,    from    Sept.    17th   to    May, 
1918;    sailed   from    X.    Y .    in    May,   transport   Agamemnon; 
landed   at   Brest,   May  24,    1918;   at   Meuse,   Argonne,   Cha- 
teau,   Marcheville;    cook.      Dis.    at    Camp    Grant,    May    30, 
1919. 

6.  DICKINSON.    IIARLAND  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.           45th  Co.,  12th  Bn.,  160  Depot  Brig. 

liorn  March  21,  1894,  Strasburg,  111.;  son  R.  H.  and  Jen- 
nie Dickinson,  Shelbyville,  111.;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918, 
Shelbyville,  111.;  army;  assigned  to  45  Co,  12th  Bn., 
160th  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Custer,  Mich.  ;  in  training 
41/!  mos.;  particular  work,  chauffeur  in  aviation  corps; 
trfd.  from  Custer  to  Ft.  Wayne,  Detroit,  Oct.  25,  1918;  to 
Taylor  Field,  Montgomery,  Ala.,  Xov.  4,  1918.  Dis. 
Jan.  28,  1919,  at  Taylor  Field,  Ala. 

7.  DIEPHOLZ,   ARNOLD  Private 
Strasburg,    111.                                                       20th   Infantry. 

Born  July  1,  1896,  Strasburg;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry 
Diepholz,  Jr.;  farmer;  called  to  service  Aug.  29,  1918,  at 
Madison,  S.  D. ;  assigned  to  20th  Infantry,  Camp  Funs- 
ton,  Kans.,  Tan.  3;  trfd.  to  Fort  Brady,  Mich.,  for  guard 
duty.  Dis.  at  Fort  Brady,  Feb.  17,  19~19. 

8.  DIEPHOLZ,   EDMAX  HENRY        Private  First  Class 
Strasburg,  111.  Supply  Co.,  87th  Inf. 

Born  March  18,  1894,  Strasburg,  111.;  son  Henry  and 
Emma  Diepholz;  farmer;  called  to  service  July  21,  1918, 
at  Madison,  S.  D. ;  army;  assigned  to  163rd  Depot  Brig- 
;i'lr.  Camp  Dodge,  Iowa;  promoted  to  first  class  private 
Xov.  25,  1918;  regimental  warehouse  clerk  6  months  and 
6  days;  trfd.  Xov.  13,  1918,  to  Supply  Co.  87th  Inf., 
Camp  Dodge,  Iowa;  in  hospital  10  days  with  influenza. 
Dis.  at  Camp  Dodge,  Jan.  27,  1919. 

9.  DIETZ,   W.  JOHX  Mechanic 
Shelbyville,    111.                       Co.    H,    130th    Inf.,    33rd    Div. 

Born  June  15.  1890,  Shelby  Co.;  son  Charles  and  Alice 
Dietz;  mechanic;  enl.  Sept.  10,  1917,  Shelbyville;  army; 
assigned  Co.  II,  130th  Inf.,  33rd  Div.;  made  mechanic 
Dec.  10,  1917;  in  training  at  Camp  Logan  8  mos.;  sailed 
from  X.  Y.  Tune  23,  1918;  transport,  King  of  Italy;  landed 
Brest,  July  6,  1918;  to  trenches  July  8,  1918;  in  trenches 
6  mos. ;  Meuse-Argonne,  Somme  sector,  Troyon  sector. 
Army  of  Occupation;  name  on  Roll  of  Honor  of  33rd 
l)iv.  ;  also  given  silver  star;  went  out  of  trench  across 
open  field  in  front  of  Germans  to  take  message  to  Co. 
E,  130th  Inf.,  under  machine  gun  fire  at  Marcheville  on 
Xov.  10,  1918;  in  hospital  in  X.  Y.,  rheumatism.  Dis. 
at  Grant. 

10.  DILDINE,   THURMAX  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                          Co.  K,   125th  Inf.,  32   Div. 

Born  Sept.  12,  1688,  Shelbyville,  111.;  son  Pierie  Dildine. 
Lancaster,  Ohio;  farmer;  called  into  service  Tune  27. 

1918,  Shelbyville,    111.;    army;    assigned    to    Co.    K,    125th 
Inf.,    32d    Div.;    in   training  2    mos.;    sailed   from    Xewport 
Xews,    Va.,    Aug.,    1918;    transport    Zealander ;    landed    at 
Brest,    France,    Aug.    18,    1918;    in    trenches    21    days;    at 
Meuse-Argonne      offensive;      particular      work,      automatic 
gunner.      Dis.   May   27,    1919,  at  Camp   Grant. 

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1.     DIHEL,   XORRIS  O.  Private 

Cowclen,   111.  817   Aero   Scidn. 

Born  Feb.  9,  1891,  Shelby  County;  {armer ;  son  of  Lee 
and  Hattie  Dihel,  Shelby ville ;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  23, 
1918;  assigned  Co.  16,  3rd  Div.,  Jefferson  Bks.,  Mo.; 
trfd.  Kelly  Field  Xo.  1,  3d  Co.,  72  Div.,  Nov.  1,  1918,  to 
Ft.  Sam  Houston,  817  Aero  Sqdn.,  Dec.  1,  1918.  Dis. 
Camp  Grant,  Dec.  30,  1918.  Married  Miss  Lenore  Har- 
den, Feb.  22,  1919.  One  brother  in  service. 


2. 


DIHEL,   SAMUEL   S. 
Shelbyville,  111. 


Private. 

E.'  Co.,  354  Inf.,  89  Div. 
Born  Jan.  13,  1889,  Shelbyville;  Pvt.  Sec.  to  sales  mgr. 
Liggett  &  Myers  Tobacco  Co.;  son  of  Lee  and  Hattie 
Dihel,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1917,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  as- 
signed E  Co.,  354  Inf.,  89  Div.  Dis.  Base  Hosp.,  Ft 
Riley,  June  11,  1918,  disability.  One  brother  in  service. 

3.  DILL,  ARCH   E.  Corporal. 
Shelbyville,  111.                                       159th  Depot  Brigade. 

Born  1892,  Shelbyville;  machinist;  son  of  Wm.  and  Xel- 
lie  Dill,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Feb.  23,  1918;  as- 
signed 18th  Co.,  Depot  Brig.,  Camp  Taylor;  promoted 
Corp.  March  1,  1918.  Dis.  Camp  Taylor,  Jan.  14,  1919. 
One  brother  in  service.  Service  in  Depot  Brigade  train- 
ing recruits. 

4.  DILL,   HARRY   LANCE  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                                          Hdq.    Co.,    10    Inf. 

Born  1896,  Shelbyville;  clerk;  son  of  Wm.  and  Xellie 
Dill,  Shelbyville;  enl.  May  29,  1918,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed Hdq.  Co.,  10  Inf.  Camp  Custer.  Dis.  on  disability, 
Camp  Custer,  Sept.  12,  1918.  One  brother  in  service. 

DITZLER,   DECIE  Private 

Middlesworth,    111.  Co.    B,   37th   Infantry 

Enl.  Shelbyville  May  23,  1918;  sent  to  Jeff.  Bks.;  assigned 

Co.   B,   37th  Infantry.     Dis.  in  Feb.,    19~19. 

5.  DOBBS,   THOMAS   W.  Private 
Herrick,  III.                                                        Co.  C,   125   Inf. 

Born  Oct.  27,  1893,  Shelby  Co.,  111.;  school  teacher;  son 
of  A.  B.  Dobbs,  Herrick;  sent  to  C.  Taylor  June  27, 
1918;  assigned  53  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade;  trfd.  C.  Beau- 
regard,  39  Div.,  July  8,  1918;  sailed  France,  Aug.  6, 
1918,  from  Xewport  Xews ;  landed  Brest;  firing  line,  Sept. 
26  to  Xov,  11,  1918;  Meuse-Argpnne  offensive;  Army  of 
Occupation  to  Apr.  21,  1919.  Division  awarded  Croix  de 
Guerre;  honorably  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  20,  1919. 


DOBSOX,  JAMES   E. 


Windsor,   111. 


6.      DODSOX,    ELMER  Private 

Windsor,   111.  Co.   B,  53   Engineers. 

Fon    of    Bettie    Dodson,    Windsor;  enl.    Shelbyville,    April 

30,    1918;    sent   C.   Dix  ;    sailed   for  France,   June    12,    1918. 
Dis.  C.    Grant,  July    12,    1919. 


DODSOX,  JAMES  E. 


Windsor,   111. 


7.  DOEDIXG,    ED   WILLIAM  Private 
Strasburg,  111.                            Co.  B,  9  Ammunition  Train 

Born  Jan.  30,  1896,  Strasburg;  farmer;  son  Fred  Deeding, 
Sr.,  Strasburg;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  53 
Co.,  157  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky. ;  trfd.  to  Co. 
B,  9  Amm.  Tr.,  C.  McCIellan,  Annison,  Ala;  sent  to  C. 
Grant  and  discharged  early  in  1919. 

8.  DOEHRIXG,    EDGAR   W.  Private 
Strasburg,  111.                                Batt.  D,  26  F.  A.,  9  Div. 

Born  Mar.  24,  1895,  Strasburg;  farmer;  son  of  Anna 
Doehring,  Strasburg;  enl.  Tune  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed 53  Co.,  159  D.  B.,  C.  Taylor,  Ky. ;  trfd.  Aug.  18, 
1918,  to  C.  McClelland,  Ala.,  Batt.  D.,  26  F.  A.,  9  Div. 
Dis.  at  C.  Grant  Feb.  6,  1919. 

9.  DOEHRIXG,  HERMAX  Private  First  Class 
Strasburg,   111.                                    Co.   H,    130th   Inf.   33rd 

P.orn  Dec.  14,  1897,  Strasburg,  111.;  son  Herman  and 
Caroline  Doehring;  farmer;  enl.  Oct.  1,  1917,  Shelby- 
ville; army;  assigned  to  Co.  H,  130th  Inf.,  33rd  Div.;  in 
training  Camp  Logan,  Texas,  8  months ;  sailed  from  Ho- 
boken  May  16,  1918;  transport  Agamemnon;  landed  at 
Brest,  May  24,  1918,  with  Co.  H;  in  trenches  at  Meuse- 
Argonne,  Albert,  St.  Mihiel,  Verdun;  in  hospital,  gassed. 
Dis.  May  31,  1919,  at  Camp  Grant. 

10.  DOXXELL,  JEHU   B.  Corporal 
Findlay,  111.                    Battery  D,  327th  Field  Artillery. 

Born  Oct.  9,  1894,  Findlay;  son  Harley  E.  and  Ella 
Donnell;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed to  Battery  D,  327th  Field  Artillery  ;  promoted  Cpl. 
in  France,  Feb.  3,  1919;  trained  for  signalman  at  Camp 
Taylor  and  West  Point,  Ky. ;  sailed  Hoboken,  N.  J., 
Sept.  9,  1918;  transport,  Orduiia;  landed  Liverpool, 
Eng.,  Sept.  21,  1918;  finished  training  Camp  De  Louge, 
France;  in  hospital,  influenza  and  mumps.  Dis.  at  Camp 
Grant,  Feb.  19,  1919. 


DONOVAN,  HOWARD 
Enlisted  through  Local  Board. 

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Windsor,   111. 


DAVIDSON,  JOHN"   C.  Corporal 

Stcwanlson.   III.  34  Inf.,  7   Div. 

Born  Apr.  10,  1893;  Stewardson ;  laborer;  son  Wm.  and 
Cynthia  Davidson,  Stewardson;  enl.  Mattoon  May  24, 
1917;  to  lefferson  Hks.,  Pvt.  ;  to  Ft.  Bliss,  promoted  Cpl.. 
Co.  G,  34  Inf.,  7  Div.;  sailed  Iloboken  AUK.,  1918;  landed 
at  lirest;  firing  line  Sept.  10,  1918,  one  month,  St.  Mihiel 
sector;  returned  as  Cpl.  Honorably  discharged  C.  (Irani, 
June  27,  1919.  One  brother  in  service. 

DK.VIKR,  RAYMOND  Chauffeur 

Westervelt,   111.  45  Co.  Av. 

Son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Geo.  Denier,  Findlay ;  enl.  Sept.  5, 
1918,  Shelby  ville;  sent  to  C.  Custer ;  trf.  to  Ft.  Wayne 
Oct.  26,  1918;  trf.  to  Taylor  Field,  Ala.,  Nov.  5,  1918. 
Dis.  as  Chauffeur  at  Taylor  Field,  Jan.  21,  1919. 

1.  DOMAS,  JUSTIN   A.  Sergeant 
Shelbyville,    111.                                                         Camp    Mills 

Son  of  Dumas  Domas ;  enl.  at  C.  Grant,  rejected,  disabil- 
ity; enl.  Shelbyville,  May  27,  1918;  sent  to  C.  Shelby, 
Miss. ;  trfd.  to  C.  Mills.  Dis.  at  C.  Grant.  Contracted 
influenza  which  prevented  sailing  for  France. 

2.  DOMAS,  LEMUEL  Ensign 
Shelbyville,  111.                                                          U.  S.  Navy 

Son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dumas  Domas;  enl.  at  Great  Lakes 
in  1917;  trfd.  to  N.  Y .  and  commissioned  ensign;  was  dis- 
charged and  is  now  supercargo  on  ship  between  N.  Y. 
and  Liverpool. 

3.  DOMAS,    ORONZO  Shelbyville,    111. 
Son   of   Mr.    and   Mrs.    Dumas   Domas:    enl.   in    Marines   in 
Chicago,   but   was   discharged    on    account    of   light    weight. 

4.  -DOUTHIT,   EVERETT    E.  Corporal 

Shelbyville,   111.  Depot  Brigade 

Born  July  26,  1895,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  of  Wm.  E. 
and  Ida  M.  Douthit,  Shelbyville;  enl.  at  Shelbyville,  May 
16,  1918;  assigned  Tr.  Detcht.  Lewis  Institute;  trfd.  to  C. 
Meade;  promoted  Corp.;  received  honorable  discharge,  C. 
Grant,  Dec.  30,  1918.  Married  to  Edith  M.  Rodgers. 
Aug.  20,  1919. 

5.  DOWD,   GEO   P.  Sergeant 
Moweaqua,  111.                          Batt.  D,  327  F.  A.,  84  Div. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  19,  1917;  sent  to  C.  Taylor;  as- 
signed Baft.  D,  327  F.  A.,  84  Div.;  sailed  for  France, 
Aug.  8,  1918;  sent  to  C.  Grant  and  discharged  Feb.  19, 
1919. 

6.  DOWDY,  ORAL   LEE  Private 
Tower  Hill,   111.                                      2d   "Handley    Paige" 

Born  Aug.  21,  1898,  Goreville,  III.;  telegrapher;  son  of 
F.  G.  and  Minnie  Dowdy,  Tower  Hill;  enl.  Decatur, 
Dec.  13,  1917,  air  service;  assigned  14  Recruit  Co.,  Jef- 
ferson Barracks;  trained  C.  Custer,  Everman  Flying 
Field,  Mitchell  Field,  N".  Y. ;  sailed  for  France,  N  Y., 
Aug.  1,  1918;  one  ship  torpedoed  in  convoy;  landed  Til- 
bury, Eng. ;  honorably  Dis.  C.  Grant  Dec.  29,  1918. 


DOWELL,  I1EXJ.  T. 
Shelbyville,    111. 


Corporal 
127    Inf.    Western    Div. 


Born  Tune  10.  1892,  Shelby  Co.;  son  Alonzo  Dowell,  Shel- 
byville; moved  Stockton,  Cal.,  1914;  enl.  Nov.,  1917;  sent 
C.  Lewis,  Wash. ;  sailed  New  York  Dec.  12 ;  landed 
Brest;  remained  Brest  several  mos.;  16  mos.  in  service; 
on  firing  line  day  armistice  was  signed ;  never  wounded ; 
in  Army  of  Occupation.  Dis.  June,  1919,  C.  Lewis, 
Wash. 

8      DOWELL.  MARTIN  A.  Seaman 

Herrick,    III.  U.   S.    Navy 

Born  Mch.  27,  1900,  Herrick,  111.;  son  Ray  Dowell,  Her- 
rick- enl  July  8,  1918,  St.  Louis;  sent  to  Great  Lakes; 
trfd.  C.  Logan;  trfd.  to  Norfolk,  to  U.  S.  S.  Kentucky; 
trfd.  to  receiving  ship  at  New  York,  then  trfd.  to^U.  S.  S. 


Kentuckian,  transport  service;  then  trfd.  to  U.  S.  S. 
American  ;  8  trips  on  U.  S.  S.  American  to  Brest,  France ; 
sent  from  New  York  to  St.  Louis  and  discharged  Sept.  26, 
1919. 

Sergeant 
Hq.    Co.    53    Artillery 


9.     DOWNEY,    CHAS.   E. 

Tower  Hill,  111. 
Born  Sept.  12,  1884,  Wellington,  Kan.;  coal  miner;  son 
W.  W.  and  E.  E.  Downe  ;  enl.  Apr.  13,  1917,  Chicago; 
assigned  Coast  Artillery  Corps;  promoted  Cpl.  June  16, 
1917;  Sgt.  Jan.  17,  1918;  Master  Gunner  Mar.  21.  1918; 
trained  Ft.  Caswell,  N.  C. ;  sailed  N.  Y.  Aug.,  1917;  on 
Friday,  Sept.  13,  convoy  of  13  ships  met  13  destroyers; 
landed  Liverpool;  firing  line  Nov.  7,  1917,  until  finish; 
Oise  Sector,  Champagne,  Toul  Sector,  St.  Mihiel,  Ar- 
gonne,  Verdun,  Lorraine;  Reg.  cited  in  general  orders 


three    times ;    hospital    record ;  honorable    Dis.    C.    Grant, 

April    3,    1919;    married    Artie  M.    Dilley,    April    7,    1919. 
Two  brothers  in  service. 

10      DOYLE,    HOWARD    M.  First    Class    Private 

Findlay,   111.  H-    Co.   327    F.   A. 
Enl      Shelbyville;     assigned    C.     Taylor,     327     Field     Art.; 

sailed    France    Sept.    9,    1918.  Dis.    at    C.    Merritt,    N.    T., 

Ume   26,    1919.      Re-enlisted   at  C.    Merritt.    -\.    J.,   at   date 


of  discharge. 


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4. 


DUCKETT,  J.  B. 
Westervelt,    111. 


1.  DOWN'S,  HARRY  E.  First  Lieut. 
Shelbyville,    111.                              Co.    D,    130   Inf.    33   Div. 

Son  W.  H.  Downs,  Shelbyville ;  electrician ;  married  Olga 
Givan  July,  1917;  was  2nd  Lieut.  Co.  H;  went  border  Co. 
H,  July  3,  1916;  served  border  9  mos. ;  sent  C.  Logan 
Oct.  9;  promoted  at  C.  Logan  to  1st  Lieut.;  trfd.  to  Co. 
D,  130th  Inf.;  sailed  May  15,  1918;  battles  Meuse-Ar- 
gonne,  Somme,  Chateau  D,  Alnois ;  returned  U.  S.  May 
.  22,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  June  19,  1919. 

2.  DOWNS,   RUFUS   HOLMES 
Shelbyville,    111. 

Born  Sept.  25,  1886,  Henton  ;  R.  R.  operator;  son  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  E.  H.  Downs,  Shelbyville;  enl.  July  1,  1915, 
Calif. ;  served  in  Italy  doing  clerical  work  in  Q.  M.  Dept. ; 
trfd.  to  France,  spring  1919.  Married  Suzanne  Paillord  at 
Brest,  France,  Aug.  4,  1919. 

3.  DUCKETT,  ERVIL  E. 
Oconee,    111. 

Son  of  H.  Duckett,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Aug.  30, 
1918;  assigned  Armour  Inst.  Dis.  in  2  weeks  from  dis- 
ability. 

Private 

Co.    C,   37   Inf. 

Born  Xov.  27,  1895,  Lakewood ;  farmer;  son  of  T.  T. 
Duckett,  Westervelt;  enl.  Shelbyville,  May  23,  1918;  as- 
signed Co.  C,  37  Inf.;  trained  C.  Ft.  Mclntosh,  Tex.  Dis. 
Ft.  Mclntosh,  Mar.  23,  1919.  Served  as  border  guard. 

5.  DUNSCOMB,  JOSEPH   HARMOX  Cadet 
Windsor,  111.                                                        Ensign  School 

Born  Xov.  3,  1896,  Windsor;  student;  son  of  George 
Emery  and  Rosa  B.  Dunscomb,  Windsor;  enl.  Peoria, 
July  2,  1918;  called  to  active  service  Xov.  13,^  1918; 
trained  U.  S.  Naval  Auxiliary  Reserve  (Ensign  School) 
at  Great  Lakes;  released  Feb.  26,  1919. 

DUSH,  HAXSEL  E.  Private 

Cowden,    111.  Infantry   Replacements 

Born  Sept.  26,  1895,  Cowden;  farmer;  son  Harrison  and 
Minnie  Dush,  Cowden;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent 
to  C.  Custer :  trf.  C.  Custer  Inf.  Repl.  Honorable  dis- 
charge C.  Grant,  Jan.  6,  1919. 

6.  DUSH,   RAY   E.  First   Class    Private 
Decatur,   111.                                   Hq.   Co.   119  Inf.  30   Div. 

Born  Sept.  13,  1895,  Cowden;  teacher;  son  of  Walter 
and  Laura  Dush;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Feb.  22,  1918;  assigned 
C.  Taylor,  159  Depot  Brigade;  to  5  Co,  84  Div.;  trfd. 
to  Sevier,  Hqt.  Co.,  119th  Inf,  Div.  30;  sailed  Hobokeii, 
May  11,  1918;  attacked  by  submarine  May  26,  1918; 
landed  Liverpool,  Eng ;  firing  line,  Ypres  and  Vermoo- 
zelle,  July  24,  Sept.  2 ;  on  Somme  between  Cambria,  at 
St.  Quentin,  Sept.  27,  October  19 ;  honorable  Dis.  C. 
Grant,  Apr.  14,  1919. 

7.  DUVALL,   WILLIAM  Private 
Herrick,   111.                                                  Co.  H,   130th   Inf. 

Enlisted  Shelbyville;  went  to  Camp  Logan  with  Co. 
H,  Oct.  9,  1917;  discharged  March,  1918;  disability, 
Camp  Logan. 

8.  EDDY,  WILLIAM  CHAFEE  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                          817  Depot  Aerial  Squadron 

Born  July  27,  1895,  Shelbyville,  111.;  son  Wm.  J.  and 
Carrie  Eddy;  student;  rejected  at  Ft.  Sheridan,  army; 
at  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  navy ;  rejected  from  Co.  H ;  called 
into  limited  service  Sept.  15,  1918;  trfd.  from  Jeff.  B.  to 
Kelly  Field,  Oct.  23,  1918;  kept  there  10  days;  trfd.  to 
817  Depot  Aerial  Sqdn.,  Ft.  Sam  Houston.  Dis.  at  C. 
Grant,  Jan.  2,  1919. 

9.  EDWARDS,   JAMES    MARTIN  Sergeant    1st    CI. 
Windsor,   111.                                                93  Aero  Squadron 

Son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  T.  Edwards,  Windsor,  111. ; 
born  Aug.  9,  1896,  at  Windsor;  Big  Four  R.  R.  clerk; 
enl.  Aug.  10,  1917,  Jefferson  Barracks,  Mo.;  air  service; 
appointed  Sgt.  Sept.  8,  1917;  Sgt.  1st  Cl.  May  30,  1919; 
Maj.  43rd  Aero  Squadron  June  23,  1918,  to  March  31, 
1919,  and  casual  det.  since  March  31,  1919;  went  overseas 
Oct.  13,  1917,  S.  S.  Pannomia;  landed  Liverpool  Oct.  29, 
1917;  4  months  aviation  camps  Eng;  4  months  Office  of 
Aviation  Officer,  London ;  remainder  of  time  in  France ; 
93  Aero  Sqdn,  3rd  Pursuit  Gr.,  1st  army  air  service;  St. 
Mihiel.  Argonne-Meuse  offensives;  93  Aero  Sqdn.  cred- 
ited destruction  of  32  enemy  planes  and  one  balloon. 
Dis.  May  31,  1919. 

10.  EDWARDS,   ROY  L.  First   Sergeant. 
Windsor,  111.                                Aviation  Sec.  Sig.  Corps. 

Served  from  1908  to  1911  in  Reg.  Army  in  Hawaiian  and 
Philippine  Islands;  re-enlisted  1911  and  served  until 
1915  in  Reg.  Army  in  U.  S. ;  re-enlisted  1916  and  served 
on  Mexican  border  until  June,  1917;  re-enlisted  Feb., 
1918,  for  Aviation  Section,  S.  C.,  Wash.,  D.  C. ;  sent  C. 
Hancock;  assigned  Casual  Co.  1330;  trfd  Camp  Green, 
Mar.,  1918;  sailed  from  Halifax  in  June;  landed  La 
Havre:  sickness  prevented  active  service,  though  under 
fire;  returned  U.  S.  Jan.,  1919.  Dis.  Feb.  24  Camp 
Grant. 

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1.      EILEK,    VKRXER  Private 

Shelby ville,  III.  95th  Aero  Sqdn.,  1st  Pursuit  Group 
Horn  April  20,  1891,  Tower  Hill;  Real  Estate  and  Ins.; 
son  Thomas  C.  and  Beulah  L.  Eiler,  Shelbyville :  enl. 
Shelbyville,  Apr.  10,  1918;  sent  Bradley  School.  Peoria, 
and  trfd.  C.  Hancock;  assigned  95  Aero  S(|dn.  1st  Pur- 
suit Group;  sailed  Newport  News,  Tuly  31,  1918;  landed 
Brest,  Aug.  11,  1918;  battles,  St.  Mihiel  sector,  Argonne, 
Verdun  ;  returned  with  95th  Aero  Sqdn.  Dis.  at  C.  Grant, 
-March  27.  1919. 


KASII,  JOSEPH  Shelbyville,   111. 
Conscientious  objector. 

EDWARDS,   LUTE  H.  Windsor,   111. 

2.      ELAM,    ROY  Mulberry    Grove,    111. 

Survfd  in   the  U.   S.  Army  during  the  war  one  year. 


3.      ELBEX,   LINCOLN  Sergeant. 

Herrick,  111.  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

lull.  Aug.,  1917,  Shelbyville;  service  C.  Logan;  did  not 
go  to  France  on  account  of  operation  on  foot.  Dis.  Jan., 
1919,  Camp  Grant. 


ELI! EX,   ULESS  Sergeant 

Herrick,   Illinois.  9th  Co.,  Coast  Art.  C. 

Son  Mrs.  Austin  Bland,  Herrick;  enl.  Jeff  Bks.,  Feb.  28, 
1915;  sailed  July  14,  1918;  landing  Liverpool,  July  26, 
1918;  service  in  France  to  Jan.  5,  1919;  still  in  service  at 
Ft.  Winfield  Scott,  San  Francisco. 


4.     ELBEX,  ROSS  E.  Cook 

Shelbyville,    111.  Battery    I).    21    F.    A..    5    Div. 

Bridge  carpenter;  enl.  Jeff  Bks.,  St.  Louis,  Tan.  1,  1918; 
assigned  Batt.  D,  21  F.  A.,  C.  McArthur,  Tex. ;  sailed 
Montreal,  May  24,  1918,  on  Burma;  landed  Liverpool, 
lune  8;  battery  in  action  from  July  16  to  Xov.  11  at  St. 
Mihiel,  Meuse- Argonne,  St.  Die  Sector;  son  Wm.  R.  and 
Matilda  Elben,  Shelbyville.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  July  27,  1919. 


5.     ELLIOTT,    HARRY    E.  Private 

Stewardson,   111.  Bat.   D,   308   Field  Art.   78   Div. 

Born  April  19,  1890,  Coatsburg,  III.;  son  S.  R.  and  -Mice 
Elliott,  Stewardson;  enl.  April  30,  1918,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed Bat.  D,  308  Field  Artillery,  78th  Div.;  trained  at 
Camp  Dix ;  sailed  Xew  York,  May  27th;  transport  Cedric ; 
landed  at  La  Havre;  trained  at  De  Meucon  ;  at  T'oul.  St. 
Mihiel,  Meuse- Argonne,  Grand  Pre.  Dis.  Camp  Grant, 
May  27,  1919. 


6.     ELLIOTT,    ORIX    E.  Private 

Stewardson,    111.  Co.    L,    10    Inf.,    14    Div. 

Enl.   May  29,   1918,  Shelbyville;  trained  12  mos.  C.  Custer. 
Dis.   May   21,    1919,   C.   Custer. 


7.     ELLIOTT,  RALPH  W.  Cook 

Mode,   111.  Co.   B,  9   Div.   Motor  Tr.   Co. 

Born  July  13,  1889;  farmer;  son  Tohn  Elliott,  deceased; 
enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  to  C.  Taylor,  53  Co.,  158 
D.  B. ;  trf.  to  C.  McClellan,  Aug.  10,  1918;  cook;  trained 
7'/i  months.  Dis.  Feb.  13,  1919,  C.  Grant. 


8.      ELLIOTT,  SAM  Corporal 

Stewardson,   111.  13  U.  S.   Cavalry,  Troop  D 

Enl.    Apr.    23,    1917,    Mattoon,    111.;    trained    El    Paso,    Tex. 
Dis.    Sept.    18,   1919,   C.   Clark,   Tex. 

EI.LISOX,   LE  ROY   E.  Tower  Hill.  111. 

Enl.  April   17,   1918  ;_  sent  Camp  Grant;  assigned  311    Field 
Signal    Battalion.     Coal   miner   before   enlistment. 


9.      ELPERS,  CHARLES  Private 

Logansport,   Intl.  Co.   H,   130   Inf.,   33    Div. 

Went  C.  Logan,  Tex.,  Oct.  9,  1917,  with  Co.  H;  sailed 
May  15,  1918;  trf.  to  129  Inf.  after  reaching  France;  re- 
turned May  22.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  June,  1919. 


10.    EXCEL,  CHARLES  CYRUS  Sergeant 

Stewardson,  111.  Base  Hosp.  Detachment,  C.  Custer 
Born  Aug.  24,  1892,  Illinois;  undertaker;  enl.  Sept.  5, 
1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Base  Hospital  Detachment, 
Camp  Custer,  Mich.  Dis.  Xov.  26,  1919,  C.  Custer.  One 
brother  in  service. 

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1.      EXCEL,   EDWIN  W.  Sergeant 

Stewardson,   111.  Co.    11,   3    Bn.,    159   D.   I!. 

Lumber  dealer ;  son  of  F.  T.  Engel,  Stewardson,   111. ;  enl. 

.Jan.  10,  1918,  Shelbyville ;  sent  Camp  Taylor;  assigned  Co. 

9,    3    Bn.,    159    D.    B.     Dis.    Camp    Taylor    Jan.    10,    1919. 

Married    Virginia    Voris,    daughter    late    Geo.     W.    Yoris, 

Feb.    14,    1919. 


2.      ERNST,  FRANK  E. 
Flint,   .Mich. 


Sergeant 

Co.  C,  47th  Inf.,  4th  Div. 
Born  May  16,  1894,  Shelbyville;  son  late  Amelia  Ernst; 
machinist;  enl.  Jan.  8,  1918,  Flint,  Mich.;  assigned  Co.  C, 
47th  Inf.  (Reg.),  4th  Div. ;  prom.  1st  cl.  private  April  21, 
1918,  to  Cpl.  April  24,  1918,  at  Camp  Greene,  N.  C.,  to 
Sgt.,  July  24,  1918,  France;  trained  4  mos.,  gas  and 
bomber;  sailed  May  9,  1918;  landed  Brest,  May  24,  1918; 
to  trenches  July  27,  1918;  at  Chateau  Thierry  front  twice, 
over  top  four  times ;  wounded  at  Chateau  Thierry  Aug.  8, 
1918,  shrapnel  in  left  wrist,  over  left  eye  and  machine  gun 
bullet  right  cheek;  hospital,  operation  for  wounds;  became 
casual,  never  returned  to  old  Co.,  trf.  to  prisoners  of  war 
escort  Co.  and  was  duty  Sgt.  in  that  until  return  with  409 
casual  Co.  His.  C.  Sherman,  Chillicothe,  .O.,  Jan.  24,  1919 

3.  ETHRIDGE,  TONY   E.  Private 
Cowden,   111.                                 Co.   K,  54th  Inf.,  6th  Div. 

Born  April  23,  1894,  Christian  Co. ;  son  N.  J.  and  Emma 
Ethridge,  Cowden;  farmer;  married  Oct.  17,  1915,  one 
son  William  Donald  born  Nov.  5,  1917;  enl.  May  10,  1918; 
assigned  Co.  K,  54th  Inf.,  6th  Div.,  Camp  Wadsworth,  S. 
C. ;  in  training  5  mos.;  sailed  June  10th;  finished  training 
at  Breau ;  went  to  trenches  in  Sept.;  at  Vosges  as  rifleman. 
Dis.  C.  Grant  June  21,  1919. 

4.  EVERSOLE,  ORLIE  LESTER  Private 
Westervelt,    111.                                                564   Service   Bn. 

Born  May  3,  1893,  Westervelt;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  sent  Moose  Heart,  111.;  in  training  3  mos.; 
trf.  C.  Shelby,  Miss.,  Nov.  15.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  Dec.  19, 
1918. 

5.  EYERSOLE,  ORVILLE  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                                         A    Co.,    76th    Engrs. 

Born  July  11,  1896,  Shelby  Co.;  son  David  and  Hope 
Eversole,  Westervelt;  farmer;  enl.  Aug.  15,  1918,  Evans- 
ton,  111.;  army;  assigned  to  Co.  A,  Tr.  Detachment,  North- 
western Univ.;  trf.  Nov.  3,  1918,  Co.  A,  76th  Engrs.,  Ft. 
Meyer,  Va. ;  trf.  Camp  Leach,  D.  C.,  Nov.  22,  1918;  pro- 
moted 1st  class  private,  Camp  Leach,  D.  C.,  Dec.  1,  1918; 
in  training  4  mos.  20  days  in  general  construction  unit 
of  76th  Engrs.  Dis.  C.  Taylor,  Jan.  6,  1919. 

6.  EVEY,  CHAS.  FREDERICK  C.  M.  M.  (a) 
Tower  Hill,  111.  U.  S.  Navy 

Born  Nov.  31,  1888,  Liverpool,  Kans. ;  son  Mrs.  Martha 
A.  Evey,  Tower  Hill;  married  June  20,  1917,  to  Cecile  M. 
Clegg,  dau.  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Clegs ;  enl.  Dec.  15,  1917,  St. 
Louis,  Mo.;  assigned  16th  Reg.,  C.  Decatur,  Great  Lakes ; 
promoted  May  1,  1918,  to  M.  M.  2  C.,  Tune  20,  1918,  to 
M.  M.  1st  C.,  Aug.  1  to  C.  M.  M.  (a).  'Dis.  Great  Lake-3 
Jan.  3,  1919. 

7.  EVEY,  JOHN  M.  Major 
Rockford,  111.                         Div.   Dental   Surgeon,  33   Div. 

Born  Dec.  28,  1875,  Tower  Hill,  mar.  Feb.  16,  1918,  Alice 
J.  Powell;  dentist;  was  captain  6th  111.  Inf.  N.  G. ;  entered 
Federal  service  March  25,  1917,  as  Capt.  Inf.  and  served 
in  6th  111.  Inf.  N.  G.  and  123rd  F.  A.  until  March  12,  1918; 
trf.  to  Dental  Corps  as  1st  Lt.  same  date  and  assigned  to 
108  Sanitary  Train;  made  Capt.  Feb.  25,  1919;  Major  May 
2,  1919;  sailed  N.  Y.  June  4,  1918;  transport  Adriatic; 
landed  Liverpool,  June  14,  1918;  with  British  on  Somme; 
in  trenches  from  June  23,  1918,  to  Nov.  11,  1918,  excepting 
18  days;  at  Amiens  defense,  Somme  offensive,  Meuse  Ar- 
gonne  off.  and  Meuse  Troyon  off. ;  given  mention  for  meri- 
torious conduct  under  fire ;  made  Div.  Dental  Surgeon 
May  7,  1919;  returned  to  U.  S.  with  33rd  Div. 

8.  EVEY,  WINFIELD  Bugler 
Tower  Hill,  111.                        Co.  H,  130th  Inf.,  33rd  Div 

Born  Aug.  6,  1900,  Tower  Hill;  son  Mrs.  M.  A.  Evey, 
Tower  Hill;  student ;  enl.  June  2,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co. 
H.,  Bugler;  in  training  at  Houston,  Texas,  11  months; 
sailed  May  16,  1918;  in  training  near  Amiens;  in  trenches 
5  mos. ;  in  hospital  from  Nov.  20  to  Dec.  25  ;  returned  with 
Co.  H.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  31,  1919,  with  rank  of  Bugler. 

9.  EWICK,  TAYLOR  LLOYD  Private 
Westervelt,  111.                                          Co.  D,  9  Amm.  Tr. 

Born  March  15,  1894,  Brunswick,  111.;  son  Mrs.  J.  S. 
Ewick;  farmer;  enl.  June  25,  1918,  at  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed 159th  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.  ;  trf.  to 
Co.  D,  9  Amm.  Tr.,  McClellan,  Ala.,  Aug.  15,  1918;  trf. 
to  Taylor  Feb.  15,  1919.  Dis.  Taylor  Feb.  20,  1919. 

10.  FASTER,   EDWIN  H.  1st  Lieut. 
Strasburg,  111.                                                          Q.   M.  R    C. 

Born  Dec.  2,  1892,  Strasburg,  111.;  son  Henry~and  Amalia 
Faster,  Strasburg;  enl.  May  29,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent 
Ft.  Thomas;  trf.  Co.  M,  10  Inf.,  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison,  then 
to  Hq.  Co.  10  Inf.  and  made  Cpl. ;  trf.  Sept.  16  to  C. 
Joseph  E.  Johnston,  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  to  Q.  M.  Training 
Camp;  commissioned  1st  Lieut.  Dec.  2,  and  placed  in  re- 
serve. Dis.  Dec.  2,  1918,  at  C.  Joseph  E.  Johnston,  Fla. 
Now  in  general  insurance  business. 

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1.  FARRIS,  THOS.  J.  Private 
Bethany,  111.                            Hq.  Co.  308  F.  A..  78  Div. 

Horn  Feb.  17,  1891,  Todd's  Point;  son  J.  H.  and  Martha 
Farris,  Bethany;  farmer;  enl.  Apr.  30,  1918,  Shelbyville: 
sent  C.  Dix,  X.  J.;  assigned  Hq.  Co.  308  F.  A.;  sailed 
Hoboken,  May  27,  transport  Cedric ;  finished  training  in 
France;  in  Toul  sector,  St.  Mihiel,  Suippes  to  Moselle, 
Meuse-Argonne,  Grand  Pre.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  27,  1919. 

2.  FARRIS,  JOHN  W.  Private 
liethany,   I'll.                             327th   F.  A.  and   Mil.   Police 

Born    Dec.    27,    1889;    enl.    Oct.   2,    1917;    assigned   to    327 

F.  A.,    C'.   Taylor;    trf.   West    Point,   Ky..   April.    1918;    trf. 
hack   to   C.   Taylor;   assigned   M.    P.     Dis.   C.  Taylor,   May 
28,    1919. 

3.  FEI.DMAX,  FRED  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                              Co.   H,    130   Inf.,   33   Div. 

Born  Feb.  23,  1899,  Aurora,  111.;  farmer;  enl.  May  7, 
1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  3  Div.:  trained 
one  year;  sailed  Hoboken,  May  16,  1918;  landed  Brest; 
in  active  duty  in  France  4  mos. ;  battles  Argonne,  St. 
Mihiel,  Verdun,  Troyon  sector,  Somme,  Amiens.  Dis.  C. 
Grant,  May  31,  1919. 

-t.     FINKS,  ARTHUR  JAMES  1st   Class   Private 

Rhineback,   la.  125    Inf..   32   Div. 

Born  Jan.  14,  1894,  Shelby  Co.;  son  Silas  Finks,  Shelby- 
ville; farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C. 
Taylor:  assigned  159  D.  B.;  trf.  C.  Beauregard,  La.,  154 
Inf.,  39  Div. ;  sailed  Newport  News,  Aug.  5,  transport 
Italian;  landed  Brest;  in  trenches  23  days;  battles  Meuse 
and  Argonne  Forest.  Dis.  May  20,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

5.  FISHER,  EARL  Sergeant 
Shelbyville,   111.                       Co.  H,   130th  Inf.,  33rd  Div. 

Born  Jan.  15,  1891,  Shelbyville;  son  Wesley  Fisher,  Shel- 
byville; enl.  June  4,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H;  made 
Cpl.  in  Shelbyville,  Sgt.  Camp  Logan  ;  trained  for  Platoon 
Leader;  10  mos.  in  training;  sailed  Hoboken  May  16th; 
landed  lircst;  with  Co.  II  until  Oct.  20th;  at  Hamel,  Al- 
bert, Meuse-Argonne,  Verdun;  in  hospital  Oct.  20th  to 
Jan.  27th  with  influenza;  leaving  hospital,  went  to  85th 
Div.,  then  to  M.  Police  School  but  never  on  duty ;  re- 
turned as  casual.  Dis.  C.  Grant  June  28,  1919. 

6.  FISHEL,  ROY  E.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                                       Co.   E,  F.  A.,  9   Div. 

Born  Jan.  12,  1896,  Shelby  county;  farmer;  son  Janiel  and 
C'aroline  Fishel,  Shelbyville;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville; sent  C.  Taylor;  trf.  C.  McClellan  ;  cannoneer.  Dis. 
C'.  Grant,  Feb.  14,  1919. 

7.  FLAHERTY,  JOHN  G.  Wagoner 
Assumption,    111.                                                     Cyclone   Div. 

Born  Dccatur,  March  1,  1896;  moved  Shelby  Co.  when  2 
yrs.  old;  enl.  June,  1918,  Taylorville,  as  mechanic;  sent 
Rahe's  Army  School,  Kansas  City;  assigned  instructor  live 
motor  room;  trf.  38th  Div.,  113  Trench  Mortar  Bait,  as 
wagoner ;  trf.  New  York,  sailed  on  Adriatic :  attacked  by 
submarine,  sub.  sunk,  transport  escaped ;  landed  Liverpool, 
crossed  Channel  to  Cherbourg,  France ;  sent  to  the  Marne 
and  ordered  to  the  front  Nov.  15,  but  armistice  was 
signed.  Dis.  C.  Shelby,  January,  1919. 

8.  FLAXDERS,  RALPH   EDWIX  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                                        Co.    G,  22nd    Engrs. 

Born  Sept.  18,  1895,  Shelby  Co.;  son  Dexter  C.  and  Lydia 
M.  Flanders;  farmer;  enl.  June  28,  1918;  assigned  to  Co. 

G,  22nd   Engrs.;   in   training  about  7   weeks  in  engineering 
at   Taylor,   Indianapolis,   New   York ;   sailed  from  Montreal, 
Canada,  Aug.  25;  transport  Port  Lincoln;  landed  at  Brest, 
Sept.    17th;    worked   just   behind    artillery,    was    under    fire 
several   times.     Dis.   C.   Grant  July  28,    1919. 

9.  FLEMING,  BRUCE  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                     Co.   H,    130th   Inf.,   33rd    Div. 

Born  April  22,  1896,  Shelbyville;  son  Wm.  and  Erne 
Fleming;  cement  finisher;  enl.  April  26,  1917,  in  Co.  H, 
130  Inf.,  33  Div.;  made  1st  class  private  June,  1918,  Hame- 
court,  France;  in  training  10  mos.  as  runner;  sailed  from 
Hoboken;  served  with  Co.  II  in  Albert  front;  left  Aug. 
8th,  general  debility,  gassed  in  casual  clearing  station 
Aug.  11,  1918;  trf.  to  various  hospitals  in  France  and 
England;  returned  U.  S.  Xov.  9.  Staten  Island  Debarka- 
tion Hospital  No.  2;  trf.  Denver  Gen.  Hospital  21.  Dis. 
there  Sept.  6,  1919,  100%  disability  account  of  gas,  lung 
trouble. 

10.  FLEMING,  JAMES  E.  Mess  Sergeant 
DuQuoin,   111.                                   Co.  I,   130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Enl.  Co.  H,  130  Inf.;  sent  C.  Logan,  Oct.  9,  1917;  3  mos. 
afterward  trf.  Co.  I,  Mess  Sgt.;  sailed  May  15.  1918;  trf. 
in  France  to  130th  Inf.  Band.  Dis.  C.  Grant  June  19, 
1919. 

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1.  FLEMING,  ROSS  WILSON  Sergeant 
Ashgrove  Twp.,  Shelby  C'o.     Btry.  B,  7  Reft.  F.A.R.l). 

Born  Jan.  18,  1887,  Lerna,  111.:  son  A.  L.  and  Catherine 
Fit-Tiling,  Xeoga,  111.;  electrician;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shel- 
byville,  111. ;  army ;  assigned  to  Btry.  B,  7th  Reg.  F.  A., 
(.'amp  Taylor,  Ky. ;  promoted  to  Corporal  Aug.  1st,  to 
Sergeant  Sept.  1,  at  Camp  Taylor;  in  training  5  months 
and  23  days.  Dis.  Pec.  20,  1918,  at  C.  Taylor. 

2.  FLEXXIKEX,  R.  H.  2nd  Lieut. 
Cowden,   111.                Hq.   Intermediate  Section   S.  O.   S. 

Enl.  Chicago,  Jan.  2,  1916,  in  Signal  Corps;  March  28. 
1919,  went  to  Mexican  border,  served  18  mos.  with  Co. 
I,  S.  C.  and  Co.  E,  2nd  Bn.  S.  C. ;  trf.  July  1,  1917,  Co. 
A.  7  F.  Bn.  S.  C. ;  promoted  Cpl.,  then  to  Sgt.,  then  to 
1st  Cl.  Sgt.;  sent  C.  Samuel  F.  B.  Morse  and  placed  in 
4th  S.  O.  T.  C. ;  reed,  commission  as  2d  Lieut,  in  Signal 
Corps  Apr.  20,  1918;  sailed  C.  Upton,  X.  Y.,  July  15, 
1918;  served  in  France  until  fall  of  1919;  returned  to  L". 
S.  and  dis.  Sept.  29,  1919. 

3.  FLOWERS,  DELBERT  L.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                      Co.   H,   130th  Inf.,  33rd   Div. 

Horn  March  29,  1896,  Shelbyville;  son  Otto  Flowers; 
baker  before  enlistment,  at  present  chauffeur;  enl.  May 
16,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H,  130th  Inf.,  33rd  Div.; 
went  to  Camp  Logan  Oct.  9,  1917;  sailed  Hobokeii  May 
16,  1918;  transport  Agamemnon;  landed  Brest  May  24, 
1918:  finished  training  at  Darganies;  trenches  from  Aug. 
5,  1918,  until  after  Nov.  11,  1918;  at  Argonne,  Meuse, 
Toul,  Amiens,  St.  Mihiel ;  gassed  at  Albert;  in  hospital, 
gas  and  pneumonia,  4  months,  5  days ;  particular  work, 
sniper.  Dis.  C.  Grant  June  30,  1919. 

4.  FLOWERS,   ELMER  D.  Private    1st    Class 
Shelbyville,  111.                                 Co.  G,   18  Inf.,   1st  Div. 

Enl.  Mattoon,  Apr.  3,  1917;  miner;  son  Otto  E.  Flowers; 
sailed  Iloboken  June  14,  1917,  on  Mallory;  trained  De 
Souge:  went  to  trenches  Oct.  29,  1917;  was  there  14 
months;  at  Picardy  front,  Cantigny,  Marne,  Belleau  Wood, 
Chateau  Thierry,  Soissons  (4  days  open  warfare  with 
shock  troops)  as  automatic  rifleman;  wounded  July  21, 
1918,  4  machine  gun  bullets  in  left  knee,  bayonet  wound 
left  hip:  15  operations  in  3  hospitals  in  France;  evacuated 
to  U.  S.  Ev.  Hosp.,  Staten  Is.  ;  later  Ft.  Harrison  ;  then 
to  Ft.  Sheridan.  Brother  Delbert  in  C'o.  H.  The  18th 
Inf.  only  combat  outfit  given  shoulder  cord  (Fouraguerre) 
by  French  Legion  of  Honor;  fought  at  Cantigny  5  days 
without  food,  cut  off  by  a  box  barrage  ;  4  of  original  Co. 
left ;  still  in  hospital. 

5.  FOELSIXG,  ALBIN  AUGUST  Private 
Strasburg,   111.                  9th  A  mm.  Tr.,   Camp   McCIellan 

Horn  May  1,  1896,  Strasburg,  III.;  son  of  Charles  Foelsing, 
Strasburg:  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  Shelbyville;  army;  as- 
signed to  9th  Amm.  Train,  Camp  McCIellan,  Ala.,  serving 
7 y>  months. 


FOROUER.  AI.VA 
Beechcr  City,   111. 


Private 
Co.  B,  308  F.  A.,   78   Div. 


7.     FORTNER,  FRANK  C.  Private 

Beecher  City,  111.  Co.   F,  316  Amm.  Tr..   91    Div. 

Enl.  Apr.  27,  1918,  Fort  Benton,  Mont.;  vocation  gas 
tractor  engineer;  with  91  Div.  in  France.  Dis.  Tan.  27, 
1919,  C.  Grant,  111. 

-8.     FOUGHT,   ELLSWORTH  Sergeant 

Shelbyville,   HI.  Co.   H,   130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Born  July  30,  1896,  Shelbyville;  cigar  maker;  son  R.  F. 
Fought;  enl.  Apr.  27,  1914,  Co.  H,  I.  N.  G. ;  re-enlisted 
May  3,  1917,  Shelbyville,  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.;  pro- 
moted Cpl.,  then  Sgt.;  sent  C.  Logan;  sailed  Hoboken, 
May  16,  1918;  landed  Brest;  served  all  way  through  with 
Co.  H.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  30,  1919.  Was  on  border 
with  Co.  H,  in  1916-17. 


Bn.  Sergeant  Major 
Camp  Hq.   Detachment 


9.  FOUGHT,  JASON  L. 
Shelbyville,  "ill. 

Born  Sept.  14,  1895,  Kay  Co.,  Okla. ;  stenographer,  De- 
troit, Mich.;  son  J.  H.  Fought,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Aug.  30, 
1918,  Shelbyville:  sent  C.  Dodge,  la.  Dis.  June  9,  1919, 
C.  Dodge,  la.  Service  was  in  headquarters  as  Bn.  Sgt. 
Major. 

10.  FOUGHT,  JOHN  PALMER  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                             138   M.  G.   Bn.,  26th  Div. 

Born  Shelbyville,  June  10,  1890;  son  John  Fought,  Shelby- 
ville; enl.  Shelbyville  May  24,  1918;  sent  C.  Shelby;  went 
overseas  Oct.  2;  fought  with  138  M.  G.  Bn.,  26th  Div. 
as  private;  under  fire  10  days.  Dis.  C.  Grant  April  26, 
1919;  re-enlisted  for  foreign  service  in  marines  June  13, 
1919;  discharged  a  month  later,  because  he  could  not  be 
sent  across;  re-enlisted  for  second  time  in  Motor  Trans. 
Corps  for  1  yr. 

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I.     FOUGHT,  JOSEPH  WILLIAM  Private' 

Shelbyville,  111.  Co.  C,  2  Dev.   Bn. 

Born  Apr.  24,  1896,  Shelby  Co.;  farmer;  enl.  May  23, 
1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  Jefferson  ISks. ;  trf.  Ft.  Mclntosh, 
Tex. ;  trfd.  Ft.  McArthur,  Co.  C,  2  Dev.  Bn.  His.  Ft.  Mc- 
Arthur,  Nov.  12,  1918. 

FOl'ST,  ARTHUR   E.  Private 

Clarksburg,  111.  308  Field  Artillery 

Knl.  Shelbyville  April  30,  1918;  sent  to  Camp  Dix;  as- 
signed to  308  F.  A. ;  served  overseas. 


2.     FOUSTE,  GEORGE  A. 
Served  in  6th  Inf.  overseas. 


Strasburg,    111. 


3.      FOWLER,   HOMER  G.,  Private 

Cowden,  111.  Batt.  I),  308  F.  A.,   78  Div. 

Morn  Jan.  22,  1896,  Cowden ;  farmer ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bert  Fowler,  Holliday  ;  enl.  Apr,  30,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
sent  C.  Dix,  X.  J.;  sailed  May  27,  transport  Cedric;  fin- 
ished training  C.  De  Meucon,  France ;  2^  mos.  in 
trenches ;  in  Toul  sector,  St.  Mihiel  offensive.  Moselle, 
Meuse-Argonne,  Grand  Pre  offensive.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May 
27,  1919. 


FOWLER,  RALPH 


Cowden,   111. 


4.  FOX,   EDWARD   F.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                         Co.    18,    159    Depot    Brigade 

Born  July  20,  1894,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  Tohn  and 
Kate  Fox,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  159  D.  B.;  in  training  27  days.  Dis.  C.  Taylor, 
disability. 

5.  FRAILEY,   EMERT  Wagoner 
Findlay,  111.                          Co.  C,   105  Amm.  Tr.,  30  Div. 

Born  May  2,  1896,  Findlay;  farmer;  son  W.  A.  Frailey : 
enl.  Feb.  22,  1918;  sent  C.  Taylor;  assigned  later  30  Div., 
Camp  Sevier;  sailed  Montreal,  Canada,  May  26,  1918, 
on  transport  Port  Lucian ;  sank  submarine  on  way;  under 
tire  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse  Argonne,  offensive  of  Woevre,  de- 
fensive of  Toul  sector,  Woevre  Sec.  defensive,  outfit  reed. 
4  citations.  Dis.  C.  Taylor,  May  15,  1919.  Truck  driver 
with  30th  and  33d  Divisions. 

6.  FRAILEY,  HARRY  Private 
Herrick,   111.                                             Co.   G,  22   Engineers 

Born  1889;  son  Frank  and  Sallie  Frailey,  Herrick;  farmer; 
enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Taylor;  trf.  Ft. 
Benj.  Harrison  July  28;  assigned  Co.  C,  22  Eng. ;  sailed 
for  France  Aug.  22,  1918,  from  Xew  York  on  transport 
Lincoln:  landed  Liverpool;  service  in  France  engineering 
work;  arrived  at  Camp  Merritt  July  7.  Dis.  C.  Grant 
July  16,  1919. 

7.  FRAILEY,   LOGAN  Private 
Herrick,  111.                                                        Co.  G,  22   Eng. 

Enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Taylor;  trf.  Ft. 
Benj.'  Harrison;  sailed  for  France  Aug.  22,  1918.  Dis. 
June  1919,  C.  Grant. 

8.  FRAXCISCO,  CECIL  B.  Sergeant 
Findlay,  111.                                   Co.   12.  Non.  Com.  School 

Born  Dec.  30,  1894,  Findlay ;  son  Samuel  and  Eva  Fran- 
cisco, Findlay;  teacher;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Aug.  30,  1918; 
sent  C.  Custer ;  assigned  Co.  12,  Xon.  Com.  O.  T.  S. ;  trf. 

C.  Grant,  Sept.  24.     Dis.  C.  Grant  Jan.  29,  1919. 

FRAXIER,  CLAREXCE  LEROY  Oconee.  111. 

Enl.  June  28,  1918,  at  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor; 
in  service  in  France. 

9.  FRAZIER,  JOSEPH  DOXALD  Sgt.   1st  Cl. 
Shelbyville,  111.                                  Q.  M.  Dept.,  S.  O.  S. 

Born    Aug.    3,    1887,    Windsor;    tailor;    son    Dow  and    An- 

tonia    Frazier,    Shelbyville;    enl.    Dec.    13,    1917.  Jefferson 

Bks. ;  assigned  Q.  M.  Dept. ;  made  Sgt. ;  sailed  Hoboken 
Jan.  14,  1918;  transport  Cedric:  landed  Liverpool;  placed 

in  charge  at  Tours  of  factories  as  foreman  ;  then  to  Paris, 

there    engaged    in    salvage    work ;    while   in    Paris  met    Lu- 

cienne  van  De  Mutter,  whom  he  married,  June  12,  1919. 
Dis.  Hoboken,  July  17,  1919. 

10.  FRAZIER,  REXXIE  L.  Private 
Shelhyville,  111.                       Batt.  D,  21   F.  A.,  5th  Div. 

Born  Dec.  6,  1889,  Windsor;  son  Dow  and  Jane  Frazier; 
printer;  enl.  Oct.  2,  1917,  Shelbyville.  111.;  assigned  Batt. 

D,  327th    F.    A.,    84th    Div.,    Camp    Taylor;    trf.    Bat.    D, 
21   F.  A.,  5th  Div.,   Leon  Springs,   Feb.  6,   1918;   trf.   Mac- 
Arthur    March    1,    1918,    same    outfit;    trained    as    machine 
gunner  8   mos.;    sailed   Montreal    May   24,    1918;    transport 
Burma,     Glasgow;     landed     Liverpool     June     8,     1918;     in 
trenehes  July   16th  until   Nov.   llth;  at  St.   Mihiel,  Argonne- 
Meuse,  St.   Die  sector;  .made  Mil.   Police  Feb.  28,   1919,  at 
Luxemburg;    returned   with    5th    Div.     Dis.    C.    Grant   July 
27,  1919. 

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1.  FRAZFR,   BERXARD  J.  Sgt.    Major 
Shelbyville,  III.                          Hq.  Co.  327  F.  A..  84  Div. 

Born  Xov.  22,  1895,  Windsor;  school  teacher';  son  Lee  W. 
and  Viola  F.  Frazer,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917, 
Springfield;  sent  C.  Taylor,  Ky. ;  assigned  liatt.  C,  327 
F.  A.;  promoted  Cpl.,  later  to  Sgt.  Major;  training  12 
mos. :  sailed  Iloboken  Sept.  8;  landed  Liverpool;  finished 
training  C'.  De  Souge,  France.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  19, 
1919.  Signing  of  armistice  prevented  this  outfit  going  into 
action. 

2.  FREDE,  GLEXX  Seaman    1st   Class 
Stewardson,   111.  U.   S.   Xavy 

Born  Dec.  2.  1897,  Stewardson;  student  U.  of  I.;  son  Wm. 
and  Minnie  Frcde,  Stewardson;  enl.  Apr.  27,  1917,  Xew 
York  City  ;  navy  ;  assigned  U.  S.  S.  Alloha ;  released  from 
active  service  Pelham  Bay,  Oct.  1,  1917,  and  sent  to 
Univ.  of  111.  for  training;  sister  was  R.  C.  nurse. 

3.  FRIKSXKR.  JOHX   HARVEY  Private 
Strasburg,   111.                      Co.  A,   141  M.  G.  Jin.,  39   Div. 

Born  Jan.  29,  1887,  Yantisville ;  farmer;  son  Henry  Fries- 
ner,  Strasburg;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyyille;  sent  C. 
Taylor ;  trf.  C.  Beauregard,  La. ;  trf.  C.  Steward,  Va. ; 
sailed  Xewport  Xews  Aug.  6,  1918;  landed  Brest,  France; 
in  France  promoted  M.  G.  Anti-Air  Craft  Service.  Dis. 
C.  Taylor,  Jan.  18,  1919. 

4.  FREYBARGER,  FLOYD  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                         Co.    H,    130th   Inf.,   33    Div. 

Enl.  and  sent  Camp  Logan  Oct.  9,  1917;  went  overseas 
and  served  through  with  Co.  H  ;  wounded  by  shrapnel  in 
back  of  head  in  Argonne ;  returned  with  Co.  H.  Dis. 
latter  part  of  May,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

5.  FRITZ.   DAX  Corporal 
Altamont,   III.                                   Co.  H,   130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Member  Co  H,  130  Inf.;  sent  C.  Logan,  Oct.  9,  1917; 
sailed  May  15,  1918;  served  through  with  Co.  H;  had 
charge  01  runners  at  2d  Bn.  H<|rs.  Dis.  C.  Grant  June, 
1919. 


1st  Class   Private 
Batt.  A,  16  F.  A.,  4  Div. 


6.  FRIZZELL,  FRAXK 

Windsor,  111. 

Born  Aug.  9.  1895,  Shelby  Co.;  son  Wm.  II.  and  Almeda 
Frizzell,  Windsor;  enl.  May  1,  1917,  Mattoon ;  sent  Jef- 
ferson liks.  :  assigned  C.  A.  C.  Co.  9,  trf.  C.  Robinson ; 
trf.  Plattsburg;  sailed  Hoboken,  May  10,  1918;  attacked 
by  submarines,  but  escaped:  landed  Brest,  finished  train- 
ing C.  De  Souge ;  in  trenches  15  days;  Yesle  sector; 
wounded  Aug.  11,  high  explosive;  two  ribs  removed;  re- 
turned as  casual.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Apr.  2,  1919. 

7.  FKYK.   EDGAR   M.  1st   Class   Sgt. 
Cowden,  111.                 Hq.  Motor  Command  43,  Q.  M.  C. 

Born  Sept.  27,  1898,  Cowden;  teacher;  son  Charles  and 
Anna  Frye :  enl.  May  27,  1918,  Springfield;  sent  Jeffer- 
son liks..  assigned  O.  M.  C. ;  trf.  C.  Meigs;  trf.  Xewport 
News,  \"a. ;  assigned  pay  roll  elk.  Motor  Command  43. 
Dis.  Xewport  Xews,  July  8,  1919. 

8.  Fl'RR,    GEO.    FRANKLIX  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.             Composite  Regt.,   Pershing's  Own 

Born  Sept.  19,  1894,  Rose  Twp. ;  son  Wm.  and  Christina 
Furr.  Shelbyville;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelbyville; 
army;  assigned  to  Bat.  D,  327th  F.  A.,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky. ; 
trf.  to  Camp  Pike  Xov.  16,  1917;  trf.  April  14,  1918,  to 
Camp  Greene  and  assigned  to  Co.  I,  58th  Inf.,  4th  Div.; 
promoted  to  1st  class  private  June  5,  1918.  in  France; 
in  training  for  rifleman  8  mos.  ;  sailed  from  Iloboken  May 
7,  1918;  transport  City  of  Brisbane;  landed  at  Folkstone. 
England.  May  24;  landed  in  France  May  25,  1918;  went 
to  trenches  July  17,  1918;  at  Somme  offensive,  Aisne- 
Marne,  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse- Argonne,  4  major  operations 
and  several  minor  operations;  trf.  May  10  to  Composite 
Regt.  Pershing's  Own,  paraded  in  Paris  July  4  and  14, 
London  July  19,  Xew  York  Sept.  11,  Washington  Sept. 
17,  1919;  in  hospital  23  days  with  rheumatism;  in  Army 
of  Occupation  from  Jan.  10  to  May  10,  stationed  at  Meden 
and  Coblenz,  Germany.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Sept.  27,  1919. 
Died  at  Shelbyville  Dec.  30,  1919. 

9.  GADDIS,  GEORGE  H.  1st  Class   Private 
Windsor,   111.  Base  Hospital 

Born  Oct.  16,  1892,  Shelby  Co.;  son  M.  W.  Caddis; 
farmer:  enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  5,  1918;  sent  Camp  Custer ; 
sailed  Long  Island  Xov.  10,  1918;  landed  Xov.  17;  re- 
turned U.  S.  with  Casual  Co.  199.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May 
26,  1919. 

10.  GARRETT,  HUBERT  C.  Cook 
Cowden,    111.                            869  Transportation   Co.,   Q-   M. 

Horn  Jan.  2,  1895,  Cowden;  son  Alonzo  Garrett ;  shipping 
clerk:  enl.  Dec.  12,  1917,  Indianapolis;  quartermaster;  in 
training  5  mos.,  Jacksonville,  Fla. ;  sailed  Xewport  Xews 
May  31,  1918,  transport  Monticello;  landed  La  Pallicc 
June  21:  did  clerical  work;  in  hospital  20  days.  Dis.  C. 
Grant  July  26,  1919. 

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1.  GARRETT,  NORVELL  Corporal 
-Mattoon,  III.                                       28th  Infantry,   1st  l)iv. 

Son  Peter  Garrett,  Windsor;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Feb  23 
1918;  sent  C.  Taylor,  18th  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade;  trf. 
to  335  Inf.,  84  Div. ;  made  Cpl. ;  sailed  Sept.  3,  landing 
Sept.  17;  trf.  to  28th  Inf.,  1st  Div.,  as  Cpl.,  and  went  to 
front  in  Oct.;  in  reserve  13  days;  went  over  top  Xov. 
7th;  wounded  by  machine  gun  bullet  few  hours  later- 
landed  in  U.  S.  March  3.  Dis.  March  24.  Brother  killed 
at  Cantigny. 

2.  GARRETT,  OTTO  Private 
Findlay,   111.                                      Sup.  Co.,  323,  Q.   M.   C. 

Horn  Oct.  2,  1894;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Garrett, 
l.ovington;  married  Jan.  2,  1918,  Mary  E.  Harbert,  dau. 
C.  A.  Harbert;  one  son  Otto  Garrett;  enl.  Shelbyville; 
trained  2  mos.  at  Kansas  City  in  Motor  Transport  Corps ; 
sailed  Hoboken  Sept.  26,  1918;  landed  Liverpool  Oct.  8, 
1918;  assigned  to  Q.  M.  C.  with  Supply  Co.  No.  323.  Dis. 
C'.  Grant,  summer,  1919. 

3.  GATCHELL,  CARL  H.  Sergeant 
Stewardson,   111.                                                   Medical  Corps 

Horn  Jan.  17,  1890,  Clinton,  111.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry 
Gatchell;  mar.  Jan.  6,  1999,  Edith  Bailey,  dau.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Samuel  Bailey;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  army  ; 
assigned  Med.  Dept.,  159  Depot  Br.,  C.  Taylor;  made 
Sgt.  at  C'.  Taylor;  in  training  6  mos.;  sailed  from  Ho- 
boken Aug.  27,  1918;  landed  at  Brest  Sept.  9;  in  action 
from  Sept.  19,  until  armistice  was  signed;  at  Meuse  Ar- 
gonne ;  gassed  and  shrapnel  wound  Oct.  30,  in  hospital ; 
assigned  to  146  French  Field  Artillery;  assigned  to  the 
Faculty  Medicine  and  Pharmacy  Uni.  of  Toulouse.  Tou- 
louse, France.,  grad.  June,  1919;  school  strictly  French, 
not  attached  to  the  U.  S.  Army.  Dis.  July  30,  1919,  at 
C.  Grant  because  of  disability,  gas. 

4.  GAYLOR,   EVERETT  R.  Sergeant 
Shelbyville,    111.                                          2   Reg.   Air  Service 

Horn  Frankfort,  Ind.;  son  Mrs.  S.  A.  Dowell,  Shelbyville; 
enl.  Dec.  15,  1917,  Mattoon;  sent  Jefferson  Bks. ;  trf.  Camp 
Hancock,  Ga. ;  sailed  Iloboken  Apr.  8,  1918;  transport 
Covington ;  landed  Brest ;  returned  U.  S.  2  Reg.  Air  Ser- 
vice. Dis.  C.  Grant  July  2,  1919.  One  step-brother, 
Hennie  Dowell,  in  overseas  service. 

5.  GEARHART,  ROY  E.  Corpora! 
Tower  Hill,   III.                               Co.   I,   354  Inf.,   89   Div. 

Horn  Xov.  3,  1894.  Mattoon,  111.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I.  D. 
Gearhart;  married  Xov.  3,  1917,  Zula  Fowler,  dau.  Mr. 
and  .Mrs.  Chas.  Fowler;  stenographer;  enl.  Apr.  29,  1918, 
St.  Louis,  Mp. :  army ;  assigned  to  Co.  I,  354  Inf..  89 
Div.;  made  Cpl.  March  24,  1919,  Germany;  sailed  Mon- 
treal, Canada,  June  4,  1918;  landed  in  Eng.  June  22,  1918; 
at  Lucy  sector,  St.  Mihiel  off.,  Euviqin  sector,  Meuse  Ar- 
gonne  off.  Dis.  C.  Funston  June  3,  1919. 

6.  GERMAIX,  EVERETT  E.  2d  Lieut. 
DuBois,  Neb.                                                 Co.  H,  130th  Inf. 

Enl.  Co.  H,  130th  Inf.;  sent  Camp  Logan  Oct.  9,  1917; 
sailed  May  15,  1918;  trf.  Tuly  25,  to  O.  T.  C. ;  commis- 
sioned 2nd  Lt.  Sept.  15,  1918;  assigned  59th  Inf.,  4th  Div. 
Sept.  25,  1918.  Dis.  Oct.  15.  1919. 

7.  GIER,  EARL  T.  Cook 
Shelbyville,    111.                                                  10    Inf.,    14Div. 

Enl.  May  29,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  10  Inf.,  14 
Div. ;  in  service  at  Ft.  Harrison  and  Camp  Custer  as  cook. 
Dis.  Jan.  28,  1919,  C.  Custer. 

8.  GILES,  SCOTT  E.  Sergeant 
Holland,   111.                                 Hq.   Co.    119   Inf.,   30   Div. 

Born  Xov.  26,  1894;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  S.  Giles, 
Beecher  City:  farmer;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
army;  assigned  to  Hq.  C'o.  119  Inf.,  30  Div.,  Camp  Tay- 
lor; trf.  to  C.  Sevier,  S.  C. ;  sailed  from  Hoboken  May  11, 
landed  at  Liverpool  May  27  ;  in  trenches  3  mos. ;  at  Ypres, 
St.  O.uentin,  Voormezeele,  major  operation  of  Somme,  Hel- 
licourt,  Prement,  Vusigny,  Escafut,  St.  Benin,  St.  Souulet. 
Dis.  C.  Grant  April  14,  1919. 

9.  GILL,   HARLEY  Private 
Strasburg,    111.                                 Co.  K,   119   Inf..   30   Div. 

Horn  Feb.  10,  1894;  son  G.  W.  Gill;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918, 
Shelbyville:  assigned  159  Depot  Brigade,  C.  Taylor;  trf. 
to  Co.  K,  119  Inf.,  30  Div.;  trf.  C.  Sevier  March  24.  to 
Merritt  May  6;  in  training  2  mos.;  sailed  from  Boston 
May  21,  landed  at  Liverpool;  in  trenches  3  weeks;  at 
Ypres,  St.  Ouentin;  in  hospital,  shell  shocked.  Dis.  C. 
Grant  April  14,  1919. 

10.  GILL,  HORACE  J.  Corporal 
Trowbridge,   III.                               Battery   F,   148   Field  A. 

Enl.  May  3,  1917,  Cheyenne,  Wyo. ;  assigned  to  Battery 
F.  148th  F.  A.;  in  training  at  Ft.  Russell,  C.  Greene, 
Mills,  Merritt;  went  to  France  Jan.  22,  1918;  live  mos. 
under  tire;  at  Champagne-Marne,  Aisne-Marne  off.,  St. 
Mihiel  off.,  Argonne  Meuse  off.;  returned  to  U.  S.  June 
25,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  7,  1919. 

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1.     GILLELAND,  ART  3d  Lieut. 

Shelby ville,   111.  Co.   H,    130   Inf.,   33    IHv. 

Born  Aug.  13,  1895,  Mt.  Vcrnon ;  son  Gco.  Gillelancl ; 
mechanic;  enl.  May  1,  1917,  Shelbyville,  Co.  H,  130  Inf., 
33  Div. ;  promoted  Cpl.,  Shelbyville,  to  Sgt.,  C.  Logan, 
to  2nd  Lieut,  in  France ;  in  Officers  Tr.  School  at  Longres, 
France;  sailed  Hoboken  May  16,  1918;  transport  Agamem- 
non; landed  Brest  May  24;  in  trenches  with  Co.  II ;  at 
Somme  def.,  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse  Argonne  off. ;  in  hospital ; 
returned  with  3rd  Army  Composite  Regt.  as  2nd  Lieut. 

2      GILLELAN'D,  RALPH  Corporal 

Shelbyville,   111.  Co.   II,    130th    Inf. 

Son  Mrs.  Klla  Gilleland,  Shelbyville;  enl.  1916  and  served 
on  border  with  Co.  H;  re-enlisted  1917;  went  Camp  Logan 
with  Co.  II;  went  overseas  May  15,  1918;  served  through 
with  Co.  H;  returned  with  Co.  H.  Dis.  May  30,  1919, 
C.  Grant. 

3.  GTLLESPEY,   IRA   E.  Sergeant 
Stewardson,  111.                            Hdq.  Co.,  28  Inf.,   1    Div. 

Son  Mrs.  Charity  Gillespey,  Stewardson ;  enl.  July,  1908, 
served  3  years,  re-enlisted  for  3  years;  out  1  year  and  re- 
enlisted,  serving  nearly  3  years  on  Mexican  border ;  served 
in  Alaska  at  Ft.  Seward  about  2  years,  guarding  gold 
mines;  went  to  France  in  June,  1917:  in  trenches  6  mos. ; 
at  Cantigny,  Chateau  Thierry,  St.  Mihiel;  wounded  July 
18,  1918,  shrapnel;  returned  to  outfit  in  Oct.;  with  outfit 
in  Germany ;  enlistment  out  in  May,  making  10  years  of 
service. 

4.  GILLESPEY,  ORVILLE  Private 
Stewardson,  111.                               Co.  G,  22  Engrs.,  3   Bn. 

Son    John    T.    Gillespey,    Stewardson;    enl.    June    27,  1918, 

Shelbyville:    assigned    C.    Taylor;    trf.    Ft.    Harrison;  from 

there  C.  Upton ;  landed  England;  went  to  France  Feb., 
1919;  served  with  Co.  G,  22  Engrs. 

GILLISPKY,    EDDIE  Private 

Stewardson,   111.  Hat.   I!.  75   C.  A.   I'. 

Enl.  Dec.  11,  1917,  Terre  Haute,  Ind. ;  assigned  to  Hat. 
I!,  75th  C.  A.  C.,  Ft.  Moultrie,  S.  C. :  went  to  France  Oct. 

5.  1918.      Discharged  at  C.  Taylor,  Ky.,  March  29,   1919. 

5.     GILMORE,  CHARLES  J.  Private 

Moweaqua,  111.  Bat.  A,  78  F.  A..  6  Div. 

Horn  Nov.  22,  1898,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Gilmore, 
Corydon,  Ind.;  farmer;  enl.  May  17,  1918,  Decatur ;  sent 
Jeff^  Bks. ;  assigned  Bat.  A,  78  F.  A.,  6  Div. ;  trf.  C.  Don- 
aphon,  trf.  to  Mills;  sailed  Hoboken  July  14.  1918;  landed 
Liverpool  Inly  27;  finished  training  Valdahon  ;  driver  in 
artillery.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  11,  1919.  One  brother,  Wm. 
Gilmore,  in  service. 


6.     GINGER.  ELZA  FRANKLIN 
Cowden,  111. 


Private 
38th   Division 


Regt.    Supply    Sgt. 
3   Inf.,   33    Division 


Enl.  May  27,  1918,^  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  C.  Shelby; 
went  to  France  in  Sept.  Dis.  C.  Taylor,  Jan.  11,  1919. 

7.  GODDARD,  DON  Corporal 
Windsor,    111.                                          Coast  Artillery   Corps 

Horn  July  22,  1898,  Windsor,  111.:  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm. 
Goddard,  Windsor;  enl.  May  1,  1917,  Mattoon,  111.;  Coast 
Artillery  Corps :  promoted  to  Cpl.  ;  in  training  20  mos.  at 
Ft.  Dade,  Fla.,  and  Newport  News,  Eustis  Br.,  Va. ;  ready 
to  sail  when  stricken  with  influenza  and  his  company  sailed 
without  him.  Dis.  Dec.  27,  1918,  C.  Grant;  killed  "by  Big 
Four  train  in  Shelbyville,  May  6.  1919. 

8.  GODDARD,  HOMER  A. 
Windsor,   111.  130 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  July  1,  1917;  attended  horsemanship 
school  C.  Logan,  Tex.;  British  sector,  July  20  to  Sept.  16, 
1918;  American  sector  E.  bank  of  Meuse,  Consenvoye, 
Camplor,  Savek ;  Army  of  Occupation.  Luxembourg,  Dec. 
6,  1918,  to  March  3,  1919;  Univ.  of  Bordeaux  March  5, 
1919,  to  July  1,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  30,  1919. 

9.  GOFF,  ROY  T.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                  Co.  M,  5   Inf.,   Prov.   Inf.   Brig. 

Born  Sept.  17,  1898;  son  Geo.  E.  Goff,  Shelbyville;  enl. 
March.  1918;  sent  to  Jeff.  Bks.;  trf  Camp  Travis,  Tex., 
March  15,  1918;  remained  there  until  armistice;  discharged 
San  Antonio,  Tex.,  summer  of  1919;  re-enlisted  and  saile  1 
Oct.  15,  1919;  landed  Brest  Oct.  29;  sent  Germany  second 
Army  of  Occupation. 

10.  GLEASON,  LAURENCE  LESTER  Sgt.   Major 
Windsor,  III.                                                         Medical   Corps 

Born  Nov.  22.  1895,  Windsor;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Geo.  R. 
Gleason ;  stenographer;  enl.  Jan.  7,  1918,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed Medical  Corps,  Ft.  Oglethorpe,  Ga. ;  made  Cpl. 
March.  Sgt.  in  May,  1st  Cl.  Sgt.  July  21,  Sgt.  Major 
Sept.  1,  1918;  stenographer.  Dis.  Ft.  Oglethorpe  Tan.  25, 
1919. 

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1.  GOOD,  JOHN'  L.  1st  Lieut.,  A.  S.  C. 
Shelby ville,   111.  48J  Aero  Squadron 

Knl.  July  31,  1917,  Jefferson  Bks.,  Mo.;  assigned  to  483 
Aero  Squadron,  Kelly  Field,  Texas;  went  to  France  March 
4.  1918.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  19,  1919,  rank  of  1st  Lieut. 
*  'ne  brother  died  in  service  in  States. 

2.  GOODRICK,   LAWRENCE  Seaman 
Shelbyville,  III.                                                         U.  S.   Navy 

Knl.  May,  1917,  Peoria;  navy;  trained  at  Great  Lakes; 
one  year  in  transportation  service  on  U.  S.  S.  Seattle ; 
made  8  trips  across  from  N.  Y.  to  Brest.  Dis.  Great 
Lakes,  Aug.  20th. 

3.  GOODWIX,   EARL  Cook 
Moweaqua,    III.                                                        Field   Artillery 

Horn  1896,  Moweaqua;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Good- 
win; farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to 
Hq.  Co.  84  F.  A.,  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  Oct.  19,  191X,  to 
Sheridan;  in  training  6  mos. ;  in  hospital,  influenza.  Dis. 
Dec.  10,  1918,  C.  Taylor. 

4.  GORDOX,  CHARLES  H.  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                      Co.  C,  22d  Engineers 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ben  Gordon,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  enl. 
June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  C.  Taylor;  trf.  month 
later  Co.  G,  22  Engrs.,  Ft.  Harrison;  sailed  from  Mon- 
treal, Can.,  August;  landed  at  Liverpool  Sept.  15;  under 
shell  fire  several  days  at  Verdun  doing  Kngr.  work ;  re- 
turned with  outfit.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  15,  1919. 

5.  GORDOX,   LAWREXCE  B.  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                      Co.  G,  22d  Engineers 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ben  Gordon,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  enl. 
June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  army;  sent  Camp  Taylor,  trf. 
month  later  Co.  G,  22nd  Engrs.,  Ft.  lienj.  Harrison ; 
sailed  from  Montreal,  Can.,  in  Aug. ;  landed  Liverpool 
Sept.  15;  under  shell  fire  several  days  at  Verdun  doing 
Kngr.  work;  in  hospital  in  France  with  influenza;  re- 
turned with  Casual  Co.  Dis.  Ft.  Sheridan  July,  1919, 
account  lung  trouble. 

6.  GORDOX,  GEORGE  WAYXE  Sgt.,  M.  C. 
Windsor,   111.                       Base   Hosp.,   Ft.    Sam   Houston 

Horn  June  2,  1892,  Windsor;  son  Geo.  A.  Gordon,  Wind- 
sor; married  Jan.  1,  1919,  Viola  Robinson,  dau.  Ransom  A. 
Robinson;  enl.  May  30,  1917,  Detroit,  Mich.;  assigned 
Base  Hospital,  Ft.  Sam  Houston;  made  Cpl.  March  1, 
1918,  Sgt.  Sept.  16th;  served  entire  enlistment  at  Houston 
except  2  mos.  at  Gen.  Hospital,  Corpus  Christi,  Texas,  to 
regain  health.  Dis.  Feb.  24,  1919. 

7.  GORDOX,  ROCHE  Private 
Windsor,   111.                                                          59th  Artillery 

Horn  Jan.  18,  1894,  Strasburg;  son  Mrs.  Ludie  Gordon. 
Windsor;  married  Apr.  16,  1919,  Floss  Moberley,  dau. 
II.  F.  Moberley,  Windsor;  enl.  Jan.  4,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
Medical  Dept. ;  assigned  to  59th  Artillery;  in  training  3 
mos.,  Ft.  Oglethorpe,  Ft.  Hamilton :  sailed  from  Hoboken 
March  28,  1918;  landed  Brest  Apr.  4,  1918;  at  St.  Mihiel, 
Meuse-Argonne.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  Feb.  10,  1919. 

8.  GRABXER,  WM.  Private 
Pana,    111.                                                       Railway    Engineers 

Born  Sept.  3-9,  1889,  Dayton,  O. ;  son  Mrs.  Anna  Vander- 
pool,  Pana;  coal  miner;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  to  53  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade;  in  training  at  Tay- 
lor 3  weeks;  trf.  to  Ry,  Engrs.,  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison,  there 
5  mos.  Dis.  Dec.  15.  1918. 

9.  GRAHAM,  ERXEST   E.  Private 
Tower  Hill,  111.                          Bat.   E,   139  F.  A.,  38  Div. 

Born  Dec  26,  1895,  Lincoln;  son  Samuel  Graham;  farmer: 
enl.  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Bat.  E,  139 
F.  A.,  38  Div.,  C.  Shelby;  in  training  2  mos.  10  days; 
sailed  Hoboken  Aug.  6,  1918;  transport  Cedric ;  landed 
Liverpool  Aug.  17,  1918;  truck  driver;  in  hospital.  Dis. 
Jan.  16,  1919,  Ft.  Harrison. 

10.  GRAHAM,   EDWIX  F.  Private 
Stewardson,    111.                         Batt.   A,   78    F.   A..   6   Div. 

Horn  May  30,  1899,  Stewardson;  son  Wm.  B.  Graham; 
student;  enl.  April  22,  1917,  Mattoon ;  assigned  Troop  B, 
13th  Cavalry,  Ft.  Riley ;  trf.  20th  Cav.,  June,  1917.  to 
Batt.  A,  78  F.  A.,  6th  Div.,  Camp  Logan,  Xov.,  1917; 
in  training  15  mos.  in  U.  S. ;  sailed  X.  Y.,  July  14,  1918; 
landed  Liverpool  July  26,  1918;  in  training  at  C.  Valdahon. 
Lis.  C.  Grant  July  10,  1919. 


GRAHAM,  ROY 


Moweaqua,   111. 


GRIFFIN,   ERNEST  RAY  Private 

Tower  Hill,   111.  Co.   E,  22d  Inf. 

Adopted  son  Oscar  Johnson,  Tower  Hill ;  served  in  United 
States  in  Co.   K.  22d   Infantry. 

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1.     GREEN,   DR.  JOHN  W.  1st  Lieut. 

Tower  Hill,    111.  Dental   Corps 

Born  Aug.  19,  1892,  Arcola,  111.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  1'. 
Green:  married  April  18,  1918,  Ruth  Poor.  dau.  Mrs. 
Lucy  Foor;  dental  student;  enl.  Nov.  29,  1917,  Chicago, 
III.;  assigned  to  Dental  Co.  No.  1,  Camp  Greenleaf,  Ga. ; 
promoted  1st  Lieut.  Oct.,  1918;  in  training  5  mos.  for 
dental  surgeon.  Dis.  Dec.  16,  1918,  C.  Greenleaf,  Ga. 


GARMAX.   RAY 
GASKILL,    LIEUT. 


I'.cthany,    111. 
Windsor,   111. 


GETZ,    10IIX 

Tower  Hill,  111.  Q.  M.  C. 

Enl.  Shelhyville,  Sept.  5,  1918;  sent  to  C.  C'ustcr:  assigned 
to  45  Co..  ItO  Depot  Brigade:  trf.  to  O.  M.  at  Camp  los. 
E.  Johnston,  Fla.  Dis.  early  in  1919. 

2.  GREEN,   MELVIX   G.  Private 
Moweaqua,    111.                         Bat.    I),    123    F.   A.,   33    Div. 

Son  Hugh  A.  Green,  Moweaqua;  enl.  Tuly  17,  1916,  Mon- 
mouth.  111..  Co.  II,  6th  111.  N.  C,.,  Rock  Island;  trf.  Aug. 
13,  1917.  to  Springfield,  to  123  F.  A.,  33  Div.;  C.  Logan 
Sept..  1917,  to  Merrit,  May  14,  1918;  in  training  14  mos.; 
sailed  Hoboken  May  27,  '1918;  landed  Liverpool  June  8, 
1918;  went  to  trenches  Aug.  27,  1918;  relieved  few  days 
before  armistice  was  signed  ;  at  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse-Argonne, 
Army  of  Occupation;  personal  citation  by  general  twice; 
outlit  cited  three  times;  in  hospital,  tonsilitis.  Dis.  C. 
Grant,  June  7,  1919. 

3.  GREGORY,  CHARLES  SUMNER  1st  Lieut. 
Fimllay,  111.                                                          Medical   Corps 

Born  Dec.  9,  1874,  Farmington ;  son  Dr.  and  Mrs.  John 
Gregor>  :  physician;  enl.  Aug.  8,  1918,  Springfield,  111.: 
Medical  Corps,  U.  S.  Army;  M.  (>.  T.  C.,  Camp  Green- 
leaf;  commissioned  Sept.  17,  1918,  1st  Lieut.  M.  C.  ;  trf. 
to  C.  Taylor,  Oct.  15,  1918.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  Dec.  17.  1918. 

4.  GREGORY,  WALTER  Major 
Moweaqua,   111.                                                            91st   Division 

Son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Gregory,  Moweaqua;  attorney  ; 
enl.  from  Salt  Lake  City,  1917,  91st  Div.,  formerly  Capt. 
of  X.  G.  Dis.  in  April,  1919;  two  brothers  in  service, 
Howard  Blaine  and  Wallace. 

5.  GREGORY,   WALLACE  Fireman 
Moweaqua.    111.                                                          U.  S.   Navy 

Born  Sept.  29,  1894,  Moweaqua;  son  Frank  Gregory; 
farmer:  enl.  June  1,  1917,  Peoria ;  navy;  assigned  Gt. 
Lakes:  sailed  from  Ilohoken  March  13,  1918,  French  liner 
La  Tourraine.  landed  Bordeaux  March  24;  at  Moutchie 
(naval  aviation)  10  mos.,  to  Paulliac ;  came  back  on  trans- 
port Pocahontas :  landed  Hampton  Rds. ;  made  3  trips  to 
Franci-  :  went  to  Great  Lakes  and  was  transferred.  Dis. 
July  15.  1919. 

6.  GREGORY,   HOWARD  BLAIXE  1st   Lieut. 
Moweaqua.    111.                                                130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Gregory,  Moweaqua ;  in  ser- 
vice in  France;  school  teacher;  1st  Lt.,  33  Div.,  130  Inf.; 
en!,  with  Co.  C'  at  Sullivan;  made  Lt.  in  France.  l)is. 
June  1.  1919,  C.  Grant;  later  re-enlisted  and  was  made 
Capt.  in  Chicago;  2  brothers  in  service,  Mai.  Walter  and 
Wallace. 

7.  GRIFFIN,   LESTER  Sergeant 
Windsor,    111. 

Enl.  May  4,   1917,  at  Jeff.  Bks.,  Mo.;  was  made  Cpl.,   May 

8.  1918;    Sgt.,    Dec.    13,    1918;    A.    E.    F.    at    Lunneville,    3 
days.    Uellecourt    3    days,    St.    Mihiel    4    days,    Recicourt    4 
days,   Argonne  Sept.,   1918;   with  A.    E.   F.,  Aug.   18,    1917, 
to  Jan.    3,    1919.     Dis.    C.   Grant,  Jan.   25,    1919. 

8.  GRIFFIN,    BARNEY   1EFFERSON  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                                   Co.  H,   130   Inf..   33   Div. 

Born  I!ec.  4,  1899,  Shelbyville ;  son  Jas.  Griffin;  enl.  Apr. 
5,  1917.  Shelhyville,  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.;  went  C. 
Logan  Oct.  9.  1917,  to  Upton  May  4,  1918;  in  training  13 
mos.:  sailed  Hobokeii  May  16,  1918;  Agamemnon;  landed 
Brest  May  24:  went  trenches  July  17,  1918;  there  until 
Nov.  llth;  at  Argonne,  St.  Mihiel,  Somme,  Troyon  sector, 
Meuse-Argonne.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  31,  1919. 

9.  GRIFFIN.  CLARENCE  ISAAC  Private 
Ileecher   City,  III.                  45th  Co.,   160   Depot   Brigade 

Born  1S91.  Shelby  Co.:  son  Hampton  Griffin;  farmer;  enl. 
Sept.  5.  1918.  Shelbyville:  assigned  45th  Co.,  160  Depot 
Brigade,  C.  Custer;  trf.  C.  Johnston,  Fla..  Nov.  1,  1918; 
sent  Grant  and  dis.  Dec.  22,  1918;  in  training  3J/2  mos.  as 
cook:  in  hospital,  influenza,  2  weeks. 

10.  GRIFFITH,  FOREST  Private 
Shelbyville.   111.                        326  Inf.,  M.  G.   Co..  82   Div. 

Born    1893,    Shelbyville;    son    Abe    Griffith;    enl.    May    27, 

1918,  Shelbyville;   assigned   139  M.   G.   Bn..  38   Div.,   Camp 
Shelby;   in   training  5  mos.;  sailed  Ilohoken   Oct.  6:  trans- 
port  Corona:    landed   Liverpool   Oct.    19;    trf.   326   Inf.,    M. 
G.    Co..    82    Div.    as   replacement.     Dis.    C.    Grant   June    7, 

1919.  His  division   moving  to  front  when  armistice  signed. 

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GARRETT,   DEAN'  Engineman   1st  Cl. 

Windsor,   111.  Navy 

Son  Mrs.  Eudora  Garrett,  Windsor;  enl.  March  5,  1914, 
.Minneapolis;  sent  to  Gt.  Lakes;  trf.  AUK.  1.  Boston  Xavy 
Yard  ;  served  on  U.  S.  S.  Celtic  to  April  1,  1918,  making 
2  trips  across:  trf.  to  Battleship  New  Mexico;  trf.  2  mos. 
later  to  Xaval  Hosp.,  N.  Y.,  pleurisy ;  duty  on  U.  S.  S. 
Ohioan,  Sept.  1,  1918;  served  2  mos.;  made  one  trip  to 
France ;  returned  to  N.  Y.  Hosp. ;  duty  on  U.  S.  S. 
Yanklon  Dec.  22  to  Jan.  10,  1919;  trf.  U.  S.  S.  Comfort 
for  return  to  States  for  medical  treatment  at  X.  Y. ;  Feb. 
1,  duty  on  mine  sweeper  Seagull.  Dis.  June  25,  1919;  re- 
enlisted  Dec.  14,  1917,  while  on  Celtic. 

1.  GRIFFITH,  ALBERT  RAYMOXD  Corporal 
Altamont,  111.                                   Co.  H,   130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Horn  Xov.  27,  1899,  Windsor;  son  John  Griffith;  student; 
enl.  Inly  12.  1917,  Shelhyville,  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf..  33  Div.; 
made  Cpl.,  C.  Logan  Dec.  30,  1917;  sailed  Hoboken  May 
16;  landed  May  24,  Brest;  went  to  trenches  in  Aug;  at 
Meuse-Argonne,  St.  Mihiel,  Marcheville.  Dis.  C.  Grant 
May  30,  1919. 

2.  GRIFFITH,  GEORGE  Private 
Altamont,  111.                                                    Co.  H,   130   Inf. 

Enl.  1917,  Shelbyville;  went  Camp  Logan  with  Co.  H; 
overseas  May  15,  1918;  served  through  with  Co.  II,  130th 
Inf.;  returned  with  Co.  H.  Dis.  May  31,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

3.  GRITZMACHER,  ARTHUR  G.  Private 
Enlisted    summer    of     1917;     sent    to  Camp     Logan:     fur- 
loughed   home   because   of   disability.  Dis.    early   in    spring 
of    1919;    later  re-enlisted  in   aviation  service. 

4.  GROOMS.   FLOYD  H.  Farrier 
Moweaqua,    111.                                                     15th   Yet.    Corps 

Horn  June  24,  1893,  Moweaqua;  son  Mrs.  Mary  Ellen 
Grooms;  farmer;  enl.  Tune  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
to  159  D.  B.  53rd  Co.,  C.  Taylor;  July  17  trf.  C.  Lee,  Va., 
to  Vet.  Tr.  School ;  promoted  Sept.  1  to  Farrier ;  sailed 
Xewport  Xews  Oct.  27,  1918;  landed  Brest  Xov.  S;  in 
camp  at  De  Souge.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  23,  1919. 

5.  GROVE,   EVERETT  O. 

Stewardson,   111.  Mobile  Hosp.  Unit   100 

Enl.  June  11,  1918,  at  Jeff.  Bks.,  Mo.;  sent  to  C.  Crane. 
Pa.,  tuly  6;  trained  in  Med.  Dept.,  later  assigned  Mobile 
IIosp'.  Unit  100;  sailed  Xov.  13,  1918;  landed  Xov.  27; 
in  service  in  France  until  March  4,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant 
March  24,  1919. 

6.  GUIXXEE,  REYXOLDS  ROY  Tower   Hill,   III. 
Horn    Xov.    8,    1896,    Cowden ;    son    M.    F.    Guinnee;    tele- 
graph   operator;    enl.    April    22,    1918,    Mattoon.    in    Med. 
Corps;    clerk   personnel   office,    Post   Hq.,   Jeff.    Bks..    Mo.; 
worked    there    until    -Aug.;    trf.    C.    Crane,    to    C.    Merritt; 
sailed    Sept.    20,    Iloboken,    on   Agamemnon;    landed    Brest 
Sept.    30;    at    Thesse    12    days;    sent    with    Amb.    Co.    to 
Leschislette,    then    to    Argonne    woods,    jitter    bearer:     se- 
lected to   take   charge  of   Infirmary  in  prison  of  war  camp 
near    Perrifetti,    France ;    two    brothers,    Francis    Ray    anil 
Reynolds  Roy,  enlisted  together  and  were  never  separated 
during  service. 

7.  GCIXXEE,   FRAXCIS  RAY  Tower   Hill.    111. 
Born    March   7,    1900,    Maroa;    son    M.    F.   Guinnee;   clerk; 
enl.    Mattoon,    Apr.    22,    1918,    in    Med.    Corps;    clerk    per- 
sonnel office,   Post  Hq.,  Jeff.   Bks.,   Mo. ;   there  until  Aug. ; 
trf.  to  C.   Crane,  to  C.   Merritt;   sailed  Sept.  20,   Hoboken, 
on  Agamemnon;  landed  Brest  Sept.  30;  at  Thesse  12  days; 
sent    with    Amb.     Co.    to    Leschislette,    then    to    Argonne 
woods,    litter    bearer;    selected    with    brother    Roy    to    take 
charge    of    Infirmary    in    prison    of    war    camp    near    Perri- 
fetti, France. 

8.  GUTIIRIE,  OBA  L.  Private 
Herrick,  III.                                         Co.  H,  77  Inf.,  14   Div. 

Enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Co.  II.  77  Inf., 
14  Div.,  Camp  Custer,  Mich.  Dis.  C.  Custer  Jan.  31.  1919. 


Private 
Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33   Div. 


9.  GUYOT.  FERXAXD 
Tower  Hill,  111. 

Horn  Feb.  17,  1899,  Belgium;  son  Frank  Guyot :  miner: 
enl.  Sept.  7,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H,  training  at  C'. 
Logan  in  O.  M.,  Motor  Transport  Co.  349.  Dis.  C.  Logan 
March  15, "1919. 

10.  IIAGAX.  CHESTER  C.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                        318  Inf.  M.   G.  Co..  80  Div. 

Horn  May  17,  1895,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  John  Hasan, 
Shelbyville;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  53 
Co.,  159  D.  H.,  C'.  Taylor;  trained  2  mos.;  sailed  Hoboken, 
Aug.  22,  1918,  on  "Ryndam" ;  subs,  sighted,  lired  on  trans- 
port but  missed;  landed  Brest,  Sept.  3,  1918;  trenches 
Xov.  11,  1918;  under  fire  11  days;  Argonne;  trf.  to  80 
Piv.  St.  Flornet,  France,  Oct.  15,  1918.  Dis.  June  10, 
1919,  C.  Grant. 

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1.  HAIXES,  VERNON  L.  Private 

Pana,  111.  Camp  Devens,  Mass. 

Bprn  Jan.  25_^  1895,  Rosejnond ;  enl.  June  26,  1918,  Shelby- 

159  O.  B.;  trained  6 
C.  Devens,  Dec.  20, 


lie;   to   C.   Taylor,   53   Co.,   14   Bn., 
Plattsburg    Bks.     Dis. 


mos. ;    trf. 
1918. 


2.  HAMPTON,  COLONEL  G.  Foreign    Service 
Windsor,  111.  Regular  Army 

Son  Frank  Hampton,  Windsor;  enl.  Mattoon,  Jan.  3,  1911; 
sent  Jefferson  Bks.,  Co.  L,  6  Inf.;  18  months  service  in 
Philippine  Is.;  dis.  Presidio,  Cal.,  Jan.  2,  1914;  re-enlisted 
June  23,  1914,  Sioux  City,  la.;  assigned  Co.  C,  30  Inf., 
sent  to  Plattsburg,  N.  Y. ;  Mexican  border  June  8,  1915; 
trf.  Co.  C,  37  Inf.;  dis.  May  12,  1919,  to  re-enlist  for 
overseas  service;  re-enlisted  May  14,  1919;  landed  in 
France  July  4,  1919,  with  D.  M.  C. ;  7  years  service  in 
regular  army  ;  still  in  France. 

3.  HANCOCK,  MORRIS  Private 
Windsor,   111.                             Supply   Co.,   10th  U.  S.   Inf. 

Enl.  May  29,  1918,  at  Shelby  ville ;  horse  dealer.  Dis.  Feb. 
25,  1919,  C.  Custer,  Mich. 

HAXNON,   LEE  Private 

Shelbyville,    III.  Tr.    Driver,   Kelley    Field 

Born  March  3,  1891,  Clarksdale;  truck  driver;  son  Sarah 
L.  Morgan,  Shelbyville;  married  Sarah  Hill,  March  21, 
1919;  enl.  March  8',  1918,  Shelbyville,  to  Kelley  Field,  June 
5,  1918:  served  2  enl.  in  regular  army;  enl.  Jan.  31,  1913, 
Co.  F,  2nd  Bn.  Engrs. ;  dis.  1916;  border  service  with  Co. 
H;  dis.  Dec.  26,  1916. 

4.  HARDEN,  ROBERT  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                    306  Co.,   Railhead  Supply   Det. 

Born  Nov.  20,  1893,  Arcola ;  farmer;  son  Chas.  E.  Harden, 
Shelbyville:  married  Ethel  Roessler,  March  30,  1918;  enl. 
Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  45  Co.,  160  D.  B., 
C.  Custer;  trf.  to  Camp  Tos.  E.  Tohnston,  Fla..  306  Co., 
Railhead  Supply  Det.  Dis.  Dec.  24,  1918,  C.  Grant. 


Sgt. 
M.  T.  C.  M.,  R.  S.  U.  309 


5.  HARRIGAN,  BEN 
Shelbyville,  111. 

Born  Dec.  5,  1890,  Shelbyville;  plumber;  son  Mrs.  Gep.  K. 
Roberts,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Tune  29,  1918,  Peoria ;  assigned 
O.  M.  R.  S.  No.  304;  made  Sgt.  Nov.  18,  1918;  trained 
7  weeks  Ft.  Sam  Houston,  Tex.;  sailed  N.  Y.  Sept.  16, 
1918,  in  "Empress  of  Russia;"  landed  Liverpool,  Sept. 
29,  1918;  St.  Mihiel.  Dis.  July  21,  1919. 

6.  HARTMAN,  EDWARD  Private 
Strasburg,  111.                              45   Co.,   160  Depot  Brigade 

Born  Apr.  6,  1894,  Stewardson ;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
F.  W.  Hartman  ;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
45  Co.,  12  Bn.,  C.  Custer;  trf.  C.  Tos.  E.  Johnston,  Fla., 
29  Co.,  14  Div.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  Dec.  22. 

7.  HATFIELD,  RALPH  Private 
Posey ville,  Ind.                                 Co.  H,  130  Inf..  33  Div. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf.;  sent  C.  Logan  Oct., 
1917;  sailed  June  27,  1918,  Hoboken ;  served  with  Co.  H 
in  France. 

8.  HAUTER.  LEE  V.  Private   1st   Cl. 
Tower  Hill,  111.                        Batt.  O,  344   F.  A.,  90   Div. 

Born  Feb.  18,  1897,  Foosland,  111.;  farmer:  son  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Arthur  W.  Hauler,  Tower  Hill;  enl.  Dec.  12,  1917, 
Decatur ;  received  1  mo.  trailing  Camp  Grant;  assigned 
263  Aero  Squadron,  Scott  Field,  111.;  trf.  Batt.  I),  344 
F.  A.,  90  Div.;  sailed  Boston  June  30,  1918,  on  "Runic"; 
one  ship  of  convoy  torpedoed  and  sank  in  harbor  of  Liver- 
pool; in  C.  Hunt,  France;  in  reserve  until  Nov.  11.  1918; 
in  Army  of  Occupation  5  mos.  Dis.  June  30,  1919,  C. 
Grant. 

9.  HAVERSTOCK,  ARTHUR  First  Cl.  Private 
Stewardson,  111.                                            19  F.  A.,  5th  Div. 

Born  Aug.  24,  1894,  Stewardson;  auto  mechanic:  son  Ira 
Haverstock,  Stewardson;  enl.  June  12,  1917,  Dec.itur; 
assigned  to  19  F.  A.;  trained  12  mos.,  Camp  Stanley,  Tex.; 
sailed  N.  Y.  May  17,  1918,  on  "Tuniton."  sank  2  subs  on 
trip;  trained  in  La  Valdahon,  France;  in  trenches  4  mos.; 
in  action  Vosges  Mts.,  St.  Die,  Frapedell  drive,  St.  Mihiel, 
Purenelle,  Forest,  Moselle,  Army  of  Occupation ;  slightly 
wounded,  Toul  sector;  shell  shocked,  St.  Mihiel.  Dis. 
July  30,  1919,  C.  Grant;  returned  with  S.  P.  U.  323 
Motor  Trans.  Corps. 

10.  HAWK,  CHARLES  ELMER  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Born  March  29,  1897,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  Hardin 
Hawk,  Shelbyville;  married  Delia  Smith  Sept.  18,  1919; 
enl.  Aug.  21,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H.  130  Inf.:  trained 
9  mos.,  C.  Logan,  Tex.;  sailed  Hoboken  May  18,  19_18, 
on  "Kaiser  Wilhelm,;"  active  service  Albert,  Amiens,  Ver- 
dun, St.  Mihiel,  Meuse-Argonne,  Coiisonvoye,  Marcheville, 
Forges  Woods;  gassed  at  Marcheville.  Dis.  Tune  1,  1919, 
C.  Grant. 

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HAKDIX,   IRVIX  O.  M.  Corps 

Shelbyvillc.    111.  Camp  Jos.    K.  Johnston 

Kill.  Slielhvville,  Sept.  5:  sent  C.  C'uster :  tr(.  (_).  M.  Corps, 
C.  Johnston,  Fla.  Dis.  early  in  1919. 

1.  HAYWARD,  TRUMAN   A.  Mechanic 
Shelliyville,    111.                               18  Co.,  5   Bn..   159   I).   V. 

Born  Feh.  27,  1888,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
liasil  Hayward;  married  Marian  Dixon  lime  4,  1919;  enl. 
!•'<•!,.  _'_',  1918;  trained  11  months  at  C.  Taylor  and  New- 
port N'ews,  Va. ;  with  Port  Utility  Detach.,  Q.  M.  Dept. 

IIAKKKLL,  CHKSTKR  Tower  Hill,    111. 

2.  HARRISON,  WM.    K.  Corporal 
Windsor,   111.                                             Typist   Demob.    Det. 

Horn  May  2,  1S')6.  Clarksburg;  farmer;  son  Mrs.  Lucy 
Harrison,  Mode;  married  Grace  Roley  Apr.  17.  191S:  enl. 
Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelby  ville ;  assigned  typist  in  Demobiliza- 
tion Det..  Camp  Custer ;  promoted  Cpl.,  Feb.  1,  1919; 
trained  6'/i  mos.  Dis.  C.  Custer  Mar.  3,  1919. 


HASTINGS,   NORMAN 


Moweaqua,   111. 


HKAI),    CAI.VIX  Terre    Haute,    Ind. 

Kill.   Shelbyville   May   23,    1918;    sent  to  Jeff,    Bks.,    Mo. 

IIKARD,    l.LOYI)  S.  Windsor,   II!. 

One  of  first  to  volunteer  after  war  declared,  but  rejected 
because  of  undersize;  tried  to  get  in  army  12  times,  at 
Mattoon,  St.  Louis,  Sioux  City,  Denver  and  elsewhere; 
accepted  on  his  13th  try  for  the  Medical  Corps,  on  lune 
9  at  _  Minneapolis;  June  30,  1919,  sailed  on  S.  S.  Sierra 
for  France. 

3.      HKIL.   KDDIK  A.  Private 

Stewardson,    111.  9th   Ammunition   Train 

Kill.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  dis.  Feb.  13.  1919, 
C.  Grant.  Served  at  C.  Taylor  in  53d  Co.,  Depot  Brigade  ; 
trf.  to  9  Amm.  Tr.,  C'.  McClellan.  Ala. 

•1.     HEITKR,   KMMKTT   LKWIS  Sgt.    Major 

Tower    Hill,    111.  -46    Bn.,   4    Canadian    Div. 

Knl.  Sept.  15,  1915,  Moose  Jaw,  Saskatchewan,  Canada; 
went  France  Aug.  10,  1916;  under  fire  21  mos.;  wounded 
Ian.  5,  1917,  by  shrapnel  at  Vimy  Ridge.  Dis.  March  S, 
1919,  Retina,  Saskatchewan,  C'anada. 

5.  IIKITMKYKR,  UKNJAMIN  Private 
Moweaqua,   111.                                           613  Aero  Squadron 

Born  Dec.  11,  1893,  Moweaqua;  farmer;  son  Henry  Heit- 
meyer;  enl.  Jan.  17,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Medical 
Corps,  Ft.  Oglethorpe,  Ga. ;  trf.  C.  Green,  May.  1918. 
I'is.  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  26,  1919.  One  brother  in  ser- 
vice overseas. 

6.  HKITMEYKR,   LAWRKXCK   K.  Private 
Moweaqua,   111.                            Hq.   Co.,  47th   Inf.,  4th   Div. 

Horn  Feb.  19,  1889,  Moweaqua;  farmer;  son  Henry  Heit- 
meyer,  Moweaqua;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed IX  Co.,  159  D.  15.,  C.  Taylor;  trf.  C.  Mills;  Hdq. 
Co.,  47  Inf.,  4  Div;  trained  2^  mos.:  sailed  Hoboken 
May  10,  1918,  on  "Motoka";  landed  Brest;  under  fire  2 
mos.:  Marne  2nd  battle,  Yesle,  St.  Mihiel,  Toulon,  Meause- 
Argonne :  outfit  cited  by  Fr.  and  rec.  Croix  de  Guerre. 
Dis.  C.  Grant  Aug.  11,  1919;  one  brother  in  service. 

7.  IIKI.I.MAN,  WM.  J.  First  Class   Private 
Strasburg,   111.                          Co.  K,   119th  Inf.,   30th   Div. 

Born  Nov.  27,  1894,  Strasburg;  printer;  son  Louise  Hell- 
man,  Strasburg :  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
IS  Co.,  159  I).  B.,  C'.  Taylor;  trf.  C.  Sevier,  S.  C:,  to  Co. 
K,  119  Inf.,  39  Div.;  trained  21/,  mos.;  sailed  liostoii  May 
12,  on  Laomedon ;  under  fire  3  mos.;  Ypres.  Bellecourt, 
Ilindenburg  line,  outfit  cited  by  French,  British  and  Bel- 
gians; returned  with  119  Inf.,  30  Div.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Apr. 
14,  1919. 


Regtl.    Sgt.    Major 
327   F.   A. 


8.  HF.LM,   EDWARD  L. 
Fimllay,    111. 

Born  July  19,  1890,  Grey  Summit,  Mp. ;  telegrapher;  son 
Win.  Helm,  Flora;  married  Grace  Underwood,  July  19, 
1916;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  327  F.  A., 
C.  Taylor;  trained  12  mos.,  as  Regtl.  Sgt.  Major:  sailed 
Hoboken,  Sept.  8,  1918,  "Orduna" ;  trained  Camp  De 
Souge.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  19,  1919;  served  3  years  in 
regular  army,  Co.  M,  21  U.  S.  Inf.,  U.  S.  and  Island 
possessions.  One  brother  in  service. 

9.  HELTON,   BERT  H.  Corporal 
Shelbyville,   111.                                 Co.   L,    10   Inf..    14    Div. 

Born  Oct.  10,  1889,  Shelbyville:  farmer;  son  Isaac  Hel- 
ton: married  Deby  Wallace,  Jan.  6,  1908;  enl.  May  29, 
1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  10  Inf.,  Ft.  Thomas,  Ky.  :  trf. 
Ft.  Benj.  Harrison;  trf.  C.  Custer;  promoted  Cpl.  Dis. 
Jan.  10,  1919,  C.  Custer;  one  brother  in  service. 

10.  HELTON,  JESSE  1st   Cl.    Private- 
Midldesworth,   111.                              314  Ammunition   Train 

Born  1891,  Middlesworth ;  conductor;  son  Isaac  Melton. 
Middlesworth;  enl.  Apr.  29,  1918,  Liberty  ville ;  assigned 
161  D.  I!.;  sailed  Hoboken,  June  27,  1918,  on  "Cretic" ; 
<>o  days  under  fire;  active  service  at  St.  Mihiel,  Argonne, 
Argonne-Meuse :  truck  driver;  returned  with  314  Amm. 
Tr.  Dis.  C.  Grant  June  6,  1919. 

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HEI.TOX,   KARL 
Sliclbyvillc,  111. 


Private 
Co.  C,  42  M.  G.  Bn.,  1).   1!. 


Born  May  16,  1894,  Middlesworth  ;  farmer;  son  Wm.  Hel- 
ton, Martinville,  Ind.  :  married  Florence  Ordell,  Feb.  12, 
1919;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Co.  C'.  42 
M.  G.  Bn.,  IX  B.,  C.  Ouster;  trained  5  mos.  Dis.  Jan. 
27,  1919,  C.  Custer. 

2.  IIEMPHILL,   CECIL  Wagoner 
Xokomis,    111.                                                        Hq.   Co.,   31    Inf. 

Son  F.liza  Hemphill,  Tower  Hill;  miner;  enl.  Shelbyville, 
May  23,  1918;  sent  Jeff.  Bks.  ;  trf.  C.  Mclntosb,  Tex.; 
assigned  Hq.  Co.,  37  Inf.;  service  guard  duty  on  border. 
Dis.  F.  Mclntosh,  Aug.  19,  1919. 

3.  1IEXDERSOX,   CI.ETE  EMERY  2nd   Lieut. 
Shelbyville,  111.                                 Hq.  Co.,  26  Inf.,  I   Div. 

Born  Sept.  30,  1889,  Shelbyville;  tailor;  son  Mrs.  Eva 
McFndden,  Shelbyville;  enl.  July  1,  1917,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  Co.  II,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.;  sailed  Ilobokeii,  May 
16,  1918;  landed  Brest;  trf.  O.  T.  C.,  Langres,  Fr.,  Sept. 
15,  1918;  commissioned  2nd  Lieut.,  Oct.  3,  1918;  assigned 
Apr.  31,  1918,  to  Co.  I,  78  Div.;  trf.  Xov.  6,  1918,  Hq. 
Co.,  26  Inf.,  I  Division;  firing  line,  July,  1918;  Argonne  ; 
transportation  and  supply  officer;  regt.  awarded  Croix  de 
Guerre.  Dis.  Ft.  Sheridan,  Oct.  10,  1919;  married  Fay 
Spears,  Oct.  19,  1919;  served  on  border  in  1916. 

4.  HEXDERSOX,  HERMAN  G.  2nd  Lieut. 
Findlay,  111.                                       Co.  E,   161  Inf.,  41   Div. 

Enl.  1917;  commissioned  2nd  Lieut,  in  41  Div.;  was  in 
convoy  service  in  France. 

5.  IIEXDERSHOT,  ROBERT  G.  Private 
Stewardson,  111.                                                 Co.   G,  327  Inf. 

Enl.  luly  10,  1917,  Kokomo,  Ind.,  in  Co.  E.  152  Inf.,  C. 
Shelby;  'sent  to  Fr.  Oct.,  1918;  trf.  Co.  G,  327  Inf.  Dis. 
C.  Sherman,  Ohio,  July  17,  1919. 

6.  HEXDRICKS,   LUTHER  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                                   9th  Ammunition  Train 

Born  March  9,  1888,  Shelbyville;  son  Wm.  Hendricks, 
Shelbyville:  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed to  9th  Ammunition  Train  ;  trained  at  Camp  Taylor 
and  (.'amp  McClellan,  Ala.  Dis.  C.  Grant. 

7.  IIEXRY,  ROSS  W.  Corporal 
Shelbyville,    111.                     Water  Tank  Train   302    C.    F. 

Horn  March  2,  1891,  Shelbyville;  son  Wm.  Henry  Jr.; 
farmer;  enl.  June  14,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  Rabe  Army 
School,  Kansas  City  ;  assigned  Water  Tank  Train  302,  Co. 
F;  prompted  Cpl.,  May  23,  1919,  in  France;  trained  for 
truck  driving,  Kansas  City  and  later  Baltimore,  Md.  ; 
sailed  'Ilobokeu  Sept.  29,  1918,  transport  Leviathan;  landed 
Brest  Oct.  7,  1918;  in  reserve  in  Meuse  Argonne  offensive. 
Dis.  Aug.  5,  1919,  C.  Grant.  After  armistice  organization 
temporarily  assigned  Graves  Registration  service,  trans- 
porting dead  from  battle  fields  to  Argonne  Cemetery. 

8.  HERROX,  MURPHY  A.  Supply   Sgt. 
Shelbyville,  111.                18  Co.,  5   Bat.,   159  Depot.   Brig. 

Born  Tune  29,  1887,  Shelbyville;  grocer;  son  D.  C.  and 
Mary  E.  Herron,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Feb.  22. 
1918;  sent  C.  Taylor;  promoted  Cpl.,  March  8th;  promoted 
Sup.  Sgt.,  Apr.  19,  1918.  Dis.  C.  Taylor,  Jan.  1,  1919. 


9. 


1st  Lieut.,  M.  C. 


HEUCK,  IIEXRY  H.  C. 

Sigel,    111. 

Born  Feb.  13,  1884,  Lowell,  Ind. ;  son  Maria  Arp,  Orange. 
Calif.;  father,  Hans  Heuck,  died  Apr.  16,  1910;  in  1915 
Maria  Heuck  (mother),  married  Fred  Arp;  physician  and 
surgeon;  enl.  Sept.  9,  1918,  Springfield,  111.;  commissioned 
1st  Lieut.  Medical  Corps,  Oct.  22,  1918;  assumed  duties 
at  Mo.  T.  C.  Ft.  Riley,  Kans.,  Xov.  5,  1918.  Dis.  Nov.  29, 
1918,  Ft.  Riley,  Kans. 

10.  HIATT,  LYMAX  RAY  2nd  Lieut. 

.    Chicago,   111.  Inf.  Replacements 

Born  March  20,  1891,  Kingman ;  Y.  M.  C.  A.  sec.;  son 
W.  P.  Hiatt,  Strasburg;  enl.  Dec.  1,  1917,  Governor's 
Island,  X.  Y. ;  assigned  Hqrs.  Eastern  Dept. ;  trf.  C. 
Upton,  A.  P.  D.  302,  March  15,  1918;  trf.  C.  Lee,  Va., 
C.  O.  T.  S.,  Aug.  15,  1918;  promoted  1st  Cl.  Private, 
Cpl.,  Sgt.;  commissioned  2nd  Lieut.,  Dec.  1,  1918.  Dis. 
C.  Lee,  Va.,  Dec.  1,  1918;  sailed  Seattle,  June  19,  1919, 
for  Vladivostock,  Siberia,  auspices  Natl.  War  Work  Coun- 
cil, Y.  M.  C.  A.  See  record  in  War  Work  Section. 


HICKMAX,  FRED  C. 


Windsor,  111. 


HOUSTOX,  THOMAS  Acting  Top   Sgt. 

Shelbyville,    111.  164   Depot   Brig. 

Born  Aug.  17,  1890,  Shelbyville;  son  of  Aaron  and  Hattie 
Houston ;  mechanic ;  enl.  Albequerque,  X.  Mex.,  Aug.  1 , 
1918;  assigned  164  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Funston.  Dis. 
Nov.  30,  1918,  Camp  Funston. 

Pugc  Otic  Hundred  Forty-One 


1.     HICKMAN,    NILE   W  Private 

Clarksburg,  111.  Co.   L,   127  Inf. 

Born  Aug.  6th,  1895,  Clarksburg;  teacher;  son  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  John  Hickman,  Clarksburg;  enl.  Tune  28th,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  assigned  to  53d  Co,  14th  lin.,  159th  Depot 
Brigade,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky  ;  trained  6  weeks;  trfd.  to  Co. 

1.  154th     Inf.,    Camp     Beauregard,     La.;     sailed     Newport 
News,    Aug.,    1918;    trfd.    in    Sept.,    1918,    to    Co.    L,    !_'7th 
Inf.,  32nd  Diy ;  under  fire  25  days;  active  service  Argonne- 
Meuse  offensive;    in   the  Army   of   Occupation   4   mos.    ])is. 
Camp   Grant  May    18th,   1919. 

2.  HILL,   FRAXK  Cook— Private 
Mode,  111.                                                       Co.  C,  118   Engrs. 

Born  Feb.  9,  1887,  Columbus,  O. ;  farmer;  enl.  June  27, 
1918:  assigned  to  Co.  C,  118  Engrs;  trained  3  mos.; 
sailed  C.  Upton,  X.  Y.,  Sept.  20,  1918,  on  I.ithia;  cook  for 
5  mos. ;  returned  with  144  Engrs.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Oct. 
29.  1919. 

3.  MILLIARD,    MARRY  Private 
Merrick,   111.                                                       160  Depot  Brig. 

Born  July  3,  1886.  Oconee,  111.;  son  of  J.  M.  and  C'.  A. 
Milliard;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
to  recruit  training  camp  45,  Co.  12  BIT.,  160  I).  Brig.. 
Camp  Custer,  Mich.;  trfd.  Ft.  Totten,  X.  Y..  Xov.  1;  trfd. 
Camp  Eustis,  Va.,  Mar.  8,  ISatt.  C  34  ;  trfd.  to  Camp  Lee 
Dec.  10,  1918.  Dis.  Jan.  6,  1919,  C.  Grant. 
4  IIILSABECK,  HAROLD  ARCHIE  Private,  1st  Cl. 
Windsor,  111.  415  R.  R.  Tel.  Bn.  Signal  Corps 

Born  Dec.  10,  1888,  Windsor;  ry.  telegraph  operator  and 
registry  mail  clerk,  Chicago  Post  Office;  enl.  Xov.  27, 
1917,  Chicago;  assigned  Co.  E,  415  R.  R.  Tel.  Bn.  Signal 
C'orps;  trfd.  36th  Service  Co.  Sept.  16,  1918;  trfd.  416 
R.  R.  Tel.  Bn.  S.  C.  Oct.,  1918;  trained  Ry.  Tel.  Opr. 
Armory,  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago ;  sailed  New  Work 
March  22,  1918,  transport  St.  Paul;  landed  Liverpool  Mar. 
31,  1918;  LeHavre,  France,  April  4,  1918;  built  telephone 
lines  in  France  until  Sept.  15,  1918;  trfd.  36  Service  Co., 
later  to  416  R.  R.  Tel.  Bn. ;  worked  as  Ry.  operator  on 
Paris-Orleans  Ry.  until  May  1,  1919.  Dis.  June  20,  1919, 
Camp  Grant. 

5.  HILSAHECK,    P.   ORLEY  Private 
Tower  Mill,  111.                                                349  Butcher  Co. 

Born  Apr.  25,  1896,  Tower  Mill;  miner;  son  Wm.  Ililsa- 
beck.  Tower  Mill;  enl.  June  14,  1918,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed 349  Butcher  Co.  G.  M.  C. ;  trained  2  mos.  Arsenal 
Tech.  School,  Indpls.,  Ind.,  and  C.  Jos.  E.  Johnston, 
Fin.;  sailed  Moboken,  Sept.  29,  1918,  on  Caroiiia.  Dis. 
C.  Grant.  luly  22,  1919. 

6.  HINTON,   DAVID  F.  Private,  First  Class 
Oconee,   111.                              Hdq.    Co.,   21    F.   A.,    5    Div. 

Born  Tuly  22,  1895;  farmer;  son  X;  P.  and  Xettie  Min- 
ton;  enl.  Sept.  19,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Batt.  1), 
327th  F.  A.,  C.  Taylor,  Ky.  ;  trfd.  C.  McArthur,  Feb., 
1918;  sailed  X.  Y.,  May  26,  1918;  landed  England,  lime 


14;    under  tire   107   days; 
Grant,  July   29,   1919. 
7.     HINTON,   EDGAR 
Oconee,   111. 


returned  July   22,    1919.      Dis.   C. 


Private 

Co.    G.,   22    Engrs. 

Son  Mrs.  Chas.  Minton,  Oconee;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  to 
C.  Taylor;  trfd.  C.  Benjamin  Harrison,  then  to  C.  Upton, 
X.  Y. ;  sailed  Montreal,  Canada,  Sept.;  active  service 
Verdun.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Tuly  15.  1919. 

8.  HIXTOX,  MILES  ANTHONY         Army   Field  Clerk 
Oconee,    111.  Demob.    Group,    C.    Taylor,    Ky. 

Born  Sept.  17,  1892,  Oconee,  111.;  son  of  Anthony  W. 
and  Xettie  Ilendricks  Hinton,  Oconee,  111.;  clerk;  enl. 
Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  18th  Co.  5th  Bn. 
159th  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Taylor;  appointed  Corporal 
Mar.  14,  1918,  and  promoted  to  Sergeant  Tan.  11,  1919; 
trfd.  to  3  Co.  1  Bn.  159  I).  B.  Dec.  6,  1918;  trfd.  to  Hq. 
Co.  159  D.  B.  April  18.  1919;  trained  as  company  clerk, 
also  demobilization  work.  Dis.  May  19,  1919,  Camp  Tay- 
lor, Ky.,  to  receive  appointment  as  Army  Field  Clerk,  May 

20,  1919,   and   assigned   to    Demobilization    Group;   trfd.    to 
Camp    Personnel   Office  Sept.   30,   1919.      Dis.    Oct.   15,   1919, 
C.    Taylor,    Ky.      One   brother   in   service. 

9.  HIXTOX",    ORVILLE    W.  Private 
Oconee,    111.                                  Hq.    Co.    119   Inf.    30   Div. 

Born  Dec.  6,  1894,  Oconee;  bank  clerk;  son  A.  W.  and 
Xettie  Hinton,  Oconee;  enl.  Feb.  22.  1918,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  C.  Taylor,  159  Depot  Brig.  Co.  18;  trfd.  C.  Se- 
vier,  Hq.  Co.,  119  Inf.,  30  Div.,  March  24,  1918;  sailed 
X.  Y.,  May  11,  1918,  H.  M.  S.  Ascania ;  landed  Liverpool, 
May  27,  1918;  firing  line  6  wks ;  Ypres,  St.  Quentin ; 
operated  37  m.  «m.  gun;  sailed  from  St.  Xazaire,  March 

21,  1919;    landed   Charleston,    S.    C.,   April    3.    1919    (on   U. 
S.    S.    Huron);    in    hospital    at    Camp   Sevier   with   measles, 
and    also    in    hospital    in     France    at    Trouville.       Dis.     C 
Grant.    Apr.    14,    1919.      One    brother    in    service. 

10.  HITE,    P.IRXEY    SIXCLAIR  Sergeant 
Shelbyville,  111.                      Hq.   Co.,   327   F.  A.  84   Div. 

Born  Aug.  2,  1889,  Shelbyville;  agent  Am.  Ex.  Co.;  son 
late  K.  A.  and  Sadie  Hite ;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Oct.  2,  1917; 
assigned  C.  Taylor;  trfd.  Kelly  Field,  Aviation  Sec.,  Dec. 
5,  1917;  returned  C.  Taylor,  327  F.  A.  Hand.  84  Div., 
Feb.  19,  1918;  promoted  Corp.  Xov.  26,  1917;  Sergt., 
Feb.  19,  1918;  sailed  X.  Y.,  Sept.  7,  1918;  landed  Liver- 
pool; honorable  Dis.  at  C.  Grant,  Feb.  19,  1919;  the  regi- 
ment was  ordered  to  Argonne,  but  armistice  was  signed 
before  they  went  into  action.  Married  Rose  Mae  Kull 
Dec.  1,  19'l7,  at  Louisville,  Ky. 

Pugc  One  Hundred  Forty-Two 


1.  HITT,    GARLAND,   B.  Private 
Kingman,  111.                                                140  F.  A.,  39  Div. 

Born  Tune  19,  1894,  Kingman;  farmer;  son  Anderson  and 
Martha  Hite,  Kingman;  enl.  Shelbyville,  June  _28,  1918; 
sent  C.  Taylor;  trfd.  C.  Beauregard  ;  sailed  X.  Y. ;  landed 
Brest.  Dis".  C.  Grant,  June  29,  1918. 

HOAG,  EDWARD  LEE  Private 

Mmvcaqua,    111.  Ildq.    Co.,    168   Inf.,   42    Div. 

Born  Oct.  16,  1893,  Sandoval,  111.;  miner;  son  John  Hoag, 
Moweaqua;  enl.  Le  Mar,  Iowa,  June  24,  1916;  assigned 
Co  K,  2nd  Iowa  Inf.;  trf.  C.  Logan  Hdq.  Co.,  168  Inf., 
42  Div.;  sailed  Hoboken,  Oct.  18,  1917;  landed  Liverpool; 
firing  line  10  mos.,  Alsace-Lorraine,  Champagne,  Chateau 
Thierry,  St.  Mihiel,  Argonne ;  wounded  May  26,  1918,  on 
Alsace-Lorraine  front;  gassed  at  Badinville ;  wounded  July 
15.  near  Suippe,  gas:  one  pound  gunner.  Honorable  dis- 
C".  Dodge.  April  3,  1919;  18  mos.  overseas. 

2.  I10FMAX,    EDWARD    CLEM  Corporal 
Sigel,   111.                                                                  A.   S.    C.    147 

Born  Sept.  23,  1895,  Illinois;  farmer;  son  John  and  Fran- 
cis Hofman,  Sigel;  enl.  Aug.  30,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent 
C.  Grant;  assigned  A.  S.  C. ;  sailed  Hoboken,  Nov.  1, 
1918;  landed  Liverpool;  served  4  mos.  with  the  American 
Expeditionary  Forces  in  France.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  March 
24.  1919. 

3.  HOLDING,  JAS.   F.  Private 
Findlay,  111.                                                        324  Sup.  Co. 

Born  Tuly  7,  1896,  Findlay;  salesman;  son  J.  G.  and 
Sarah  R.  Holding,  Findlay;  enl.  Mattoon,  June  1,  1918; 
assigned  27  Receiving  Co.  Jeff  Bks. ;  trfd.  C.  Johnson; 
sailed  Newport  News,  Aug.  14,  1918;  landed  Brest;  supply 
Dept.  near  Issur-Tille.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Sept.  3,  1919. 

4.  HOOD,    HARRY  A.  First   Class   Private 
Windsor,   111                       Co.   C.,   308   M.   G.   Bn.   78   Div. 

Born  March  2,  1896,  Shelby  Co.;  farmer;  son  Chas.  H. 
and  Bertha  S.  Hood;  enl.  Shelbyville,  May  27,  1918;  as- 
signed Co.  A,  138  M.  G.  Bn.  38  Div.,  C.  Shelley;  sailed 
X.  Y.  Oct.  6,  1918;  landed  Liverpool.  Dis.  C.  Dix,  May 
12,  1919. 

S       HOOVER,   WALTER  SENN          Sergeant  First  Class 
Shelbyville,    111.  Medical    Dept. 

Born  Xov.  25,  1891,  Lovington ;  vocational  director;  son 
Dr.  W.  K.  and  Mrs.  E.  S.  Hoover,  Lovington;  enl.  Shel- 
byville. Sept.  3,  1919;  assigned  C.  Grant,  Co.  II,  161  De- 
pot Brigade;  promoted  Supply  Sgt.  Oct.  8,  1918;  1st  Sgt. 
Xov.  21,  1918;  Sgt.  Icl.  Med.  Dept.  March  26,  1919;  at- 
tended O.  T.  C.  C.  Greenleaf,  Ga.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Sept. 

18,  1919.     First  Sgt.   in  charge  22  hospital  trains  handling 
all   wounded,   returning  through  port   of   X.   Y. 

6.  HORN,   GROVER  C.  Canteen   Service 
Windsor,   111.  10   Infantry 

Enl.    Shelbyville,    May    29,    1918;    sent    Ft.    Thomas,  Ky. ; 

trfd.    to    Ft.    Benjamin    Harrison;    assigned    10    Inf.;  trfd. 

with  this  outfit  to  C.  Custer ;  served  in  canteen.  Dis. 
early  in  1919. 

7.  HORX,  JACK  Private 
Windsor,'  111.                     Supply   Co.,   327   F.  A.,   84    Div. 

Born  March  8.  1893,  Windsor;  son  Frank  and  Dora  Horn, 
Windsor;  tailor;  enl.  Oct.  2,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
327  F.  A.  84  Div.  C.  Taylor;  trfd.  West  Point;  trfd. 
Long  Island;  sailed  Long  Island  Sept.  19,  1918;  landed 
Liverpool,  Oct.  1,  1918;  at  C.  Muzuse.  Dis.  Feb.  19. 
1918,  C.  Grant. 

8.  HORN,  RALPH  Private 
Windsor,    111.                              Hq.    Co.,    119    Inf.,    30    Div. 

Born  Ian.  11,  1895,  Windsor;  butcher;  son  Frank  and 
Dora  Horn:  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  C. 
Taylor;  trfd.  C.  Sevier,  Mar.  21,  1918;  sailed  Hoboken, 
May  11,  1918;  submarine  sunk  on  voyage  May  25:  landed 
Liverpool;  on  or  near  firing  line  6  mos;  Ypres,  Yoorme- 
zeele,  Bcllecourt,  St.  Souplet,  Ribeaucourt,  Mazenhein ; 
gunner ;  slightly  gassed  at  Bellecourt.  Dis.  C.  Grant, 
Apr.  1.  1919. 

9.  HOTT,   FRED  Corporal 
Tower    Hill,    111.                       327    Field    Artillery,    84    Div. 

Born  March  31,  1896,  Shelby  Co.;  son  T.  M.  and  Mary 
Hott.  Tower  Hill;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelby- 
ville ;  assigned  Battery  D,  327  Field  Art.  84  Div. ;  trained 
West  Point;  promoted  Corp.  June,  1918;  landed  Liver- 
pool, Sept.  21,  1918,  C.  De  Souge.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb. 

19,  1919.     Armistice  signed  before  327  went  into  action. 

10.  HOTT,   GEORGE  Private 
Tower  Hill,  111.                                         Co.  K,  Div.   Bn.  3 

Born  Apr.  29,  1894,  Shelby  Co.;  farmer;  son  J.  M.  and 
May  Hott,  Tower  Hill;  enl.  Sept.  4,  1918,  Shelbyville: 
sent  C.  Custer,  Co.  K.  Dev.  Bn.  Xo.  3.  Dis.  C.  Custer, 
Xov.  25,  1918. 

/'(/,;,'(•  One  Hundred  Forty-Three 


1.  HOWARD,  WALTER  ALOXZO  Lieut.  M.  C. 
Ilcnton,   111.                    31    F.  H.  8th  San.  Trn..  Sth    Div. 

Horn  June  30,  1883,  Henton,  III.;  son  Alonzo  Howard 
and  wife:  physician:  enl.  May  14,  1918;  ordered  M.  O. 
T.  C.  Ft.  Riley,  Kans.,  Aug.  31,  1918;  assigned  31  F.  II. 
Kth  San  Trn.,  Palo  Alto,  Cal.,  Oct.  17,  1918;  left  C.  Fre- 
mont, Cal.,  Oct.  23,  1918,  for  overseas;  back  to  C.  -Mills 
after  the  armistice  was  signed.  Dis.  C.  Lee,  \  a..  Ian. 
25,  1919. 

2.  HOWE,   CLYDE   E.  Provost   Marshal    Dept. 
Cowden,    Illinois.                       Co.  A,   6th   Military    Police 

Horn  Cowden,  III.,  Dec.  20,  1887,  son  of  Grace  and  S. 
A.  I).  Howe;  school  teacher;  enl.  May  10,  1918:  assigned 
to  Co.  A,  6th  M.  P. ;  trained  for  provost  work.  Camp 
Wadsworth,  S.  C. ;  trfd.  to  First  Army  Hdq.  Sept.  26th, 
1918;  assigned  to  Co.  I),  1st  Army  M.  P.  Bn. :  trfd.  to 
295th  M.  P.  Co.  Apr.  20,  1919;  sailed  from  New  York, 
July  17th,  1918;  landed  at  Lellarve,  France,  lulv  22, 
1918;  served  in  Alsace  until  Sept.  26,  1918;  in  Meuse- 
Argonne  from  Sept.  26  until  close  of  war;  work  in  Argonne 
consisting  of  traffic,  stragglers  and  prison  cages.  Dis. 
July  1.0,  1919,  Camp  Grant. 

3.  HOY,    HARLEY    WESLEY  Private 
Assumption,   111.                                          Batt.   D   138   F.  A. 

Born  Apr.  -I,  1896,  Ohed ;  farmer;  son  Wesley  Hoy.  As- 
sumption^:  enl.  May  26,  1918,  Shelhyville;  assigned  I'.att. 
I).  l.iS  F.  A.;  served  overseas;  landed  Brest;  returned  U. 
S.  Dis.  C.  Taylor,  Jan.  11,  1919. 

4.  HOY,  TRACY   M.  Military   Police 
Moweauqua,  111.  233  M.   P. 

Horn  1893,  Moweaqua;  son  D.  W.  Hoy;  farmer;  enl. 
Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelhyville;  sent  C.  Taylor;  assigned  to 
327  F.  A.;  trfd.  to  Med.  Dept.  327  F.  A.  Dec.  1.  1917; 
trfd.  to  233rd  Co.  Military  Police  Dec.  1  ;  trfd.  in  France 
to  M.  P.  at  Bordeaux;  landed  Liverpool  Sept.  21,  1918. 
Dis.  July  12,  1919,  Camp  Grant. 

5.  HUIiER,  RALPH  H.  Private   First   Class 
Shelbyville,    111.                                       Co.   G,   22    Engineers 

Born  Tan.  8,  1896,  Shelby  Co.;  farmer;  son  Henry  and 
Lydia  Huber,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Shelbyville,  June  28/1918; 
sent  C.  Taylor;  S3  Co,  159  Depot  Brig.;  trfd.  Ft.  Benja- 
min Harrison,  Co.  G,  22  Eng. ;  promoted  1st  class  pri- 
\ate;  permanent  prison  guard;  missed  overseas  service 
account  of  sickness.  Dis.  C.  Benj.  Harrison,  Dec.  22, 
1918. 

6.  IIUBXER,    WILLIAM    ALBERT  Private 
Shelbyville,    HI.                    llq.   Co.,   308    F.   A.    78th   Div. 

Horn  April  19,  1894,  Shelby  Co.  111.;  son  Mrs.  Emma 
Hubner;  bridge  carpenter;  enl.  Apr.  30,  1918;  assigned 
to  308  F.  A.  H.  O.  Co. ;  trained  for  field  artilleryman, 
Camp  Dix,  X.  J. ;  sailed  from  Xew  York  May  27.  19J8,  on 
transport  Cedric ;  landed  Liverpool  June  8,  1918:  hring 
line  2*/2  months;  Toul  Sector,  St.  Mihiel,  Suippe-Moselle, 
Mense-Argonne,  Grand  Pre.  Dis.  June  1,  1919,  Camp 
Grant. 

7.  IIUDSOX,  AXDY   M.  First   Class   Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                                Co.   H.    130   Inf.   33    Div. 

Horn  Oct.  28,  1883,  Xebraska  City,  Xebr. ;  miner;  son 
Wm.  Hudson,  Shelbyville;  enl.  June  19,  1916,  Shclbyville, 
Co.  H;  sent  C.  Logan  Oct.  9,  1918;  sailed  Hoboken, 
May  24,  1918;  landed  Brest;  Albert,  Verdun,  Meuse- Ar- 
gonne, Somnie,  St.  Mihiel,  Hanill.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May 
3,  1919.  Served  on  border  in  1916. 

8.  HUDSOX,  AXDREW  P.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                      Co.   H,   130th  Inf.,   33rd  Div. 

Born  1883,  Shelbyville  twp. ;  son  Mrs.  Cynthia  Hudson ; 
laborer:  enl.  lune  19,  1916,  Shelbyville;  Co.  H,  130th 
Inf.  33rd  Div.;  sent  C.  Logan  Oct.  9,  1918;  sailed  Ho- 
boken, May  16,  1918,  on  transport  Agamemnon:  landed 
Brest  May  24,  1918;  brigaded  with  English;  went  to 
trenches  July  9,  1918;  served  about  6  mos.  on  line.  Meuse- 
Argonne,  St.  Mihiel,  .Albert,  Verdun,  Hamel.  Dis.  June 
1,  1919,  Camp  Grant.  Was  on  border  in  1916. 

9.  IIUDSOX,    XELSOX  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                 Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Son  of  Cynthia  Hudson  ;  enl.  Co.  H,  Shelbyville,  summer 
of  1917  and  went  to  C.  Logan;  trfd.  to  Q.  M.  Mainte- 
nance Dept.  and  served  until  discharge  in  spring  of  1919. 

10.  IIUDSOX,    ELMER   C.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                     Co.  H,   130th  Inf.,   33rd   Div. 

Born  Sept.  24,  1888,  Shelbyville;  son  Willard  Hudson; 
laborer;  enl.  May  31,  1917,  Shelbyville;  Co.  H,  130th  Inf.; 
went  to  Camp  Logan  Oct.  9,  1918;  sailed  May  15,  1918; 
landed  Brest  May  24,  1918;  went  to  trenches  July  9,_  1918; 
served  at  Meuse-Argonne,  St.  Mihiel,  Albert,  Verdun, 
Hamel:  in  hospital  Trieve  Jan.  25  to  Jan.  30;  trfd.  hos- 
pital Base  Xo.  60.  Dis.  from  hospital  June  24  and  sent 
home  as  a  patient  to  Ft.  Sheridan.  Dis.  Camp  Grant 
June  24,  1919.  One  brother  in  Co.  H. 

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1.  HUDSON,    CECIL    SNYDKR.          First   Class    Private 
Moweaqua,    III.  302    Water   Tank    Tram 

liorn  April  8,  1896,  Moweaqua;  hdw.  and  furniture;  son 
Frank  Hudson,  Moweaqua;  enl.  June  14,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville; assigned  Rahe  Auto  School,  K.  C. ;  promoted  1st 
Cl.  Private  Feb.  1919;  trfd.  302  W.  T.  T. ;  sailed  Ho- 
boken  Sept.  3,  1918;  landed  Hrest ;  Meuse-Argonne  offen- 
sive as  driver.  Dis.  C.  (Irani,  Aug.  5,  1919. 

2.  HUDSON',    DAVID    K.  Private 
Cowden,    111.                                             Field   Artillery   Repl. 

Horn  July  22,  1893.  Cowden  ;  son  George  and  Jennie 
Hudson;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelby  ville ;  trained 
for  Instrument  Sgt.,  Camp  Taylor;  sailed  Xew  York, 
Oct.  27,  1918;  landed  Liverpool  Xov.  8,  1918,  Camp 
Hunt.  Dis.  May  12,  1919,  Camp  Mills,  Long  Island. 


HUDSON,  JAMES 


Moweaqua, 


3.  HfLICK,    CHARLES    HKNRY  1st    I.icut. 
Shelby  ville,    III.                                  Medical    Corps,    96    Div. 

Horn  1888,  Illinois;  physician  and  surgeon;  son  Mathias 
Ilulick,  Camden,  111.;  commissioned  1st  Lieut.  M.  C.  Oct. 
12,  1918;  11  ().  T.  C.  C.  Greenleaf,  Ga.,  and  Wadsworth. 
S.  C.,  2  mos.  Dis.  C.  Wadsworth,  Dec.  .12,  1918. 

4.  IIULETT,    IRWIX  Private 
Windsor,   111.                                        102  Inf.   II.   D.  Attach. 

Horn  July  13,  1895,  Moweaqua;  son  John  I.  and  Lilly  11. 
Hulett,  Findlay;  grocery  clerk;  enl.  May  27,  1918,  Shel- 
byville;  assigned  152  Ambulance  Co.  38th  Div.  Camp 
Shelby;  trfd.  Camp  Mills  Sept.  17,  1918;  sailed  Xew 
York  Oct.  5,  1918,  transport  Zelandia ;  called  on  deck 
by  fire  alarm ;  dropped  depth  bombs  for  pursuing  sub- 
marines;  landed  Liverpool  Oct  17,  1918;  went  to  trenches 
Oct.  25,  1918;  served  on  Yerdun  Front,  Toul  Sector; 
orderly  on  ambulance.  Dis.  April  26,  1919,  Camp  Grant. 

HUMPHRKY,   KARL  Moweaqua,    111. 

Member  of  Rainbow  Division;  returned  home  May  15, 
1919. 

5.  HUNT,   GLENN   H.  Corpora! 
Beecher   City,    111.                                                   lied.    Corps 

Horn  Dec.  11,  1893,  lieecher  City;  farmer;  son  Oscar 
and  Emma  Hunt,  Heecher  City;  enl.  Jan.  10,  1918,  She! 
by  ville ;  assigned  lied.  Corps,  C.  Greenleaf,  Ga. ;  trfd.  C". 
lohnston,  Feb.,  1919;  promoted  Corp.  Feb.  12,  1919.  Dis. 
C.  Johnston,  Feb.  26,  1919. 

6.  HYLAXI),    LESTER   C.  Sergeant 
Windsor,  111.                                                      Co.  F,  41st  Inf. 

Horn  Aug.  31,  1898,  Moultrie  Co.;  son  of  J.  E.  and  Maud 
Ilyland,  Windsor,  III.;  railroading,  asst.  agent;  enl.  Mat- 
toon,  July  10,  1917;  sent  Jefferson  Barracks;  trfd.  Ft. 
Snelling,  Minn.,  Ft.  Wayne.  Detroit,  Ft.  Hrady,  Sault 
Ste  Marie;  promoted  from  Corporal  to  Sergeant  April  14. 
1919.  Dis.  Camp  Funston.  Re-enlisted  and  sent  to  Cam;. 
Upton,  N.  Y. 

7.  JACKSON,   LEWIS  ALBERT  Regtl.   Sgt.    Maj. 
Shelbyville,   111.                           Hq.   Co.,   130  Inf.,   33    Div. 

Horn  Feb.  12,  1894,  Lakewood ;  bank  elk.,  Shelbyville; 
married  Ruby  C.  Roessler  Apr.  20,  1918;  enl.  May  17, 
1917,  Springfield;  assigned  lied.  Dept.  130  Inf.;  made 
Pvt.  1st  Cl.  Nov.  7,  Hn.  Sgt.  Maj.  Dec  28;  Regtl.  Sgt. 
Maj.  Feb.  25,  1918;  trained  at  Logan;  sailed  with  33 
Div.,  serving  as  Regtl.  Sgt.  Maj.  130  Inf.  throughout; 
Heuse-Argonne,  Somme- Amiens,  Yerdun,  T'ryon,  Chateau 
de  Alnois,  llarcheville,  Riaville,  St.  Hilaire,  Army  of  Oc- 
cupation. Dis.  C.  Grant  May  31,  1919. 

8.  TACKSON,   SAM  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                                              Hq.   Co.,   308   F.   A. 

Born  Apr.  16,  1888,  Shelbyville;  son  late  Hose  and  Me- 
lissa Jackson;  enl.  Apr.  30,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Dix. 
X.  J. ;  assigned  Ilq.  Co.,  308  F.  A.;  sickness  prevented 
overseas  service ;  remained  C.  Dix  as  canteen  worker  in 
C.  16,  153  1).  B.  Dis.  C.  Dix,  Xov.  13,  1918;  disability. 

9.  TACKSOX,    WILL    A.  Cook 
Findlay,  111.                                       Co.  C,   130  Inf..  33   Div. 

Born  Aug.  15,  1895,  Moweaqua;  farmer;  son  John  and 
Lydia  Jackson;  enl.  Aug.  19,  1917,  Sullivan;  sent  C.  Lo- 
gan; sailed  Hoboken,  May  16,  1918;  transport  Agamem- 
non ;  landed  Hrest ;  engagements  at  Tryon  Sector,  Somme, 
Argonne,  St.  Mihiel,  Verdun,  battle  of  llarcheville;  ac- 
tive service  from  Aug.,  1918,  until  armistice;  gassed  sev- 
eral times  and  in  hospital ;  eyes  badly  injured  by  gas. 
Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  26,  1919. 

10.  JARXAGIN,  ROBERT  L.  1st  Lieut. 
Shelbyville,    111.                                                 U.    S.    Marines 

Son  B.  E.  and  Julia  F.  Jarnagin,  Shelbyville;  lawyer; 
enl.  May  19,  1917,  St.  Louis;  sent  Paris  Island;  promoted 
Corp,  then  Sgt.,  then  1st  Sgt.;  went  to  Quantico,  Ya.,  and 
attended  O.  T.  C. ;  commissioned  2nd  Lieut.  June,  1918; 
made  1st  Lieut.  2  mos.  later;  went  overseas  in  Sept.. 
1918;  served  in  Judge  Advocate's  office  in  France;  landed 
in  U.  S.  in  December,  1919. 

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1.     JESSE,  MERL  F.  1st  Class  Private 

Fimllay,    111.  11    K.   A.,    llattcry    F,   6    Div. 

Horn.  Mch  16,  1900,  Macon  Co.;  son  Wm.  Jesse.  Find- 
lay;  enl.  Decatur,  May  16,  1918;  sent  Jefferson  liks. ;  as- 
signed 11  F.  A.;  in  ten  days  sent  C.  Doniphan,  <  >kla.  : 
trfd.  C.  Mills;  sent  overseas;  landed  France,  July  13,  1918; 
sent  to  firing  line  Sept.  12;  slightly  wounded;  hospital  10 
days;  front  lines  until  armistice;  Army  of  Occupation; 
returned  U.  S.  summer  of  1919. 


2.     JESTER.    HOWARD    Wll.SON 
Tower   Hill,   111. 


Sergeant 
46  Co.  Marines 
Horn  Oct.  24,  1895,  Pana.  111.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I..  W. 
Jester,  Tower  Hill;  miner;  enl.  Aug.  1,  1917,  St.  Louis, 
in  Marines;  sent  Paris  Island,  S.  C. ;  assigned  Kxp.  Co., 
Guantanamo  Hay,  Cuba ;  promoted  Cpl.  then  Sgt.  at 
Guantanamo  Hay ;  returned  I".  S.  on  U.  S.  S.  Shawmut ; 
mine  layer.  Dis.  Norfolk  Navy  Yard.  Apr.  29,  1919. 


JOIIXSOX,    LEOX 
Moweaqua,   III. 


Sergeant 
Co.  G.  23  Inf.  and  41   Div. 


Horn  Xov.  12,  1892,  Moweaqua;  son  Frank  and  Kvn 
fohnson ;  farmer;  served  with  Montana  Guards  on  Mex- 
ican border  1916;  enl.  Apr.  30,  1917,  Ft.  Wm.  Henry 
Harrison,  Helena.  Mont.;  assigned  Co.  I!,  163  Inf.,  41 
I'iv.  ;  promoted  Cpl.,  then  Sgt.;  sailed  Dec.  14,  Camf 


• 

Mills,  Long  Island,  transport  Yaterland;  landed  Havre, 
France;  to  I.angress,  then  Montrichard  ;  drilled  recruits 
several  mos.  ;  trfd.  to  Co.  G,  23  Inf.  June  at  Chateau  Thier 


citation    for   hravery    November.    1919 


-I.      fOHNSON,   CHARLES   VERNE  Private 

Moweaqua,   111.  328    F.    A..   91    Div. 

Horn  Mch.  27,  1891,  Moweaqua;  son  Frank  and  Eva 
Johnson,  Moweaqua;  enl.  April  23,  1918,  Ryegate,  Mont.; 
assigned  166  D.  I!.,  C.  Lewis,  Wash.;  sailed  C.  Mills, 
July,  1918;  landed  England;  sent  Havre,  France;  in 
trenches  15  days;  landed  hack  in  U.  S.  Apr.  12,  1919,  at 
Camp  Mills,  Long  Island.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Apr.  23,  1919. 

5.  IOHXSOX,    EARL  Mechanic 
Fimllay,  111.                                 Batt.   D,  327  F.  A.  84  Div. 

Horn  1893,  Dalton  City,  III.;  son  Frank  li.  Johnson, 
Findlay;  brakeman  C.  &•  E.  I.;  enl.  Oct.  3,  1917,  Shelby- 
ville;  sent  C.  Taylor;  assigned  Halt.  D,  327  F.  A.;  at- 
tended Motor  Instruction  School,  Kenosha,  \\  is. ;  instruc- 
tor at  West  Point,  Ky. ;  sailed  Iloboken,  Sept.  9,  1918; 
landed  Liverpool ;  sent  C.  De  Souge,  France ;  served  as 
mechanic.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  19.  1919. 

6.  IOHXSOX,   EDLER   E.  Private 
Trowbridge,    III.                          Co.    K,    119    Inf.,    30    Div. 

Horn  Apr.  18.  1889,  Strasburg ;  son  Augusta  and  Andrew 
P.  lohnson;  farmer;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelby  ville ;  sent 

C.  Taylor;    assigned    Co.    18,    159    D.    B.;    trfd.    C.    Sevier, 
S.   C.  ;   sailed   Boston,  May    12;    transport  attacked  by   sub- 
marine;   landed   Liverpool,   May  28,   1918;   served   on  west- 
ern   front;    returned    U.    S.    as    casual,    after    operation    at 
hospital.      Dis.    Feb.    1,    1919,   C.    Grant. 

7.  JOHXSOX,    ERNEST    II.  Private 
Findlay,   III.                                                             22   Engineers 

Born  Oct.  16,  1892,  Findlay;  son  J.  W.  Johnson.  Findlay; 
farmer;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelby  ville ;  sent  C.  Taylor; 
there  3  wks. ;  trfd.  Ft.  Benjamin  Harrison ;  trfd.  C.  Up- 
ton;  sailed  Montreal,  Aug.  22,  on  Port  Lincoln;  landed 
Liverpool;  in  action  2  mos.:  Meuse-Argonne  and  St.  Mi- 
hiel  sectors  as  engineer.  Dis.  July  16,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

8.  JOHNSON,   GLEN  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                   Co.   A,   9th   Ammunition    Train 

Horn  Mch.  4,  1893,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  Oliver  John- 
son; enl.  Shelbyville,  June  28,  1918;  sent  C.  Taylor; 
trfd.  C.  McClelland,  Ala.;  in  training  6'/>  .mos.  Dis.  C. 
McClelland,  Aug.  20,  1918. 

9.  JOHXSOX,  LLOYD  A.  First  Class  Private 
Stewardson,    111.                            Co.    G,   346   Inf.,   87    Div. 

Horn  Aug.  22,  1891,  Stewardson;  son  J.  A.  Johnson,  Enid, 
Okla. ;  painter;  enl.  Oct.  2,  1917,  Shelbyville;  sent  C. 
Taylor;  assigned  Batt.  D,  327  F.  A.,  84  Div.;  trfd.  C. 
I'ik'e  Xov.  16;  trfd.  C.  Merritt  June  19,  1918:  sailed  June 
19,  Iloboken,  transport  Delta;  attacked  by  submarine: 
landed  Liverpool;  on  front  at  Meuse-Argonne  Oct.  6- 
Xov.  1 1  :  outfit  cited ;  returned  U.  S.  with  406  Service 
Park  unit.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Aug.  26,  1918. 

10      JOHXSOX,   WM.    GLEX  Private 

Cowden,  111.  Co.  D,  147   Eng. 

Born,  Xov.  16,  1895,  Cowden;  brakeman,  Clover  Leaf  R. 
R. ;  son  Asa  and  Margaret  Johnson,  Cowden  ;  enl.  Sept. 
5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Custer,  Mich.;  assigned  Co. 

D.  147    Eng.      Dis.   Ft.    Benjamin   Harrison,   Ind.,   Dec.    10, 
1918. 

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1      JOHNSON,  GEORGE  ROY  Private 

Shelbyville,  111.  6  Regt.,  Co.  86,  Marines 

Son  Tames  W.  Johnson,  Shelby  ville;  enl.  Chicago  few 
days  after  war  was  declared;  sent  Paris  Island,  S.  C.  ; 
assigned  separate  Bn.  6  Regt.  86  Co.  ;  sent  hospital  for 
operation  which  prevented  overseas  service.  Dis.  Paris 
Island,  Jan..  1919. 

JOHNSON,  GROVER  C.  Private 

Herrick,  111.  147  Engineers 

Enl.    Sept.    5,    1918,    Shelby  ville :    sent  C.    Custer ;    assigned 

45  Co..  12  Bn..  160  D.  li. ;  trf.  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison,  147 
Kngineers.  Dis.  early  in  1919. 

2.  TOIINSOX.    JAMES    P..  1st    Class    Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                      Mobile  Vet.  Section  33d   Div. 

Born  Jan.  25,  1887,  Shelbyville;  son  J.  W.  Johnson, 
baker;  enl.  July  20,  1917,  Co.  II,  Shelbyville;  trfd.  Dec. 
26,  Mobile  Vet.  Sec.,  C.  Logan;  sailed  Hoboken  May  21, 
transport  Leviathan  ;  attacked  by  submarine  just  out  of 
Brest;  landed  Brest;  under  fire  at  Albert,  Argonne-Meuse 
and  Sommc ;  veterinary  work ;  returned  casual  Mch.  30, 
1919;  sent  St.  Mary's  hospital,  Hoboken,  then  Greenhut 
Hosp.,  then  Gen.  IIosp.  No.  21,  Denver,  for  lung  treat- 
ment. Dis.  Denver,  Sept.  3,  1919;  25  per  cent  disability. 

3.  TOHNSON,    ROBERT   W.  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                      110  Mobile  Vet.  Sec.,  33   Div. 

Born  Feb.  22,  1897,  Shelbyville;  son  Tames  W.  Johnson: 
enf.  with  Co.  H,  Shelbyville,  Mch.  22,  1917;  sent  C.  Logan, 
Oct.  9,  1918;  trfd.  Mobile  Vet.  Sec.  110;  sailed  Hoboken. 
May  22,  1918;  transport  Leviathan;  attacked  by  7  sub- 
marines 2  hrs.  from  Brest;  transport  sank  3  of  subs; 
landed  Brest  May  30;  on  Metz  front  as  veterinarian; 
cared  for  sick  and  wounded  horses;  outfit  cited  3  times. 
Verdun,  Metz  and  Argonne.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  June  12,  1919. 

4.  JOHNSON,   ROY  WINTON  1st   Lieut. 
Shelbyville,   111.                 Medical   Corps,    Evac.    Hosp.   60 

Born  June  2,  1882,  McLean  Co,  111. ;  physician  and  sur- 
geon;  son  Wm.  and  Elizabeth  Johnson,  Gibson  City,  111.; 
enl.  June  24,  1918,  Chicago,  111.;  commissioned  1st  Lieut. 
Medical  Corps  Tuly  15,  1918;  assigned  Evacuation  Hos- 
pital 60,  Camp  Greenleaf,  Ga.  Dis.  Dec.  28,  1918. 

5.  JONES,   BYRON   H.  Sergeant 
Windsor,    111.                         Co.    C,    307    Field    Signal    Bn. 

Born  July  16,  1896,  Windsor;  son  Henry  and  Myrtle 
Jones,  Windsor;  enl.  July  14,  1917,  Ft.  Benjamin  Harri- 
son ;  assigned  Co.  B.  23  Bn. ;  trfd.  C.  Gordon ;  sailed 
Brooklyn.  May  19,  1918;  Toul  sector,  July  23  to  Aug.  8; 
Marbache  sector  Aug.  19  to  Sept.  17;  St.  Mihiel  offen- 
sive Sept.  12  to  16;  Meuse-Argonne  Sept.  28-Oct  6; 
Meuse-Argonne  Oct.  6  to  31. 

6.  JONES,    DELBERT    W.  1st    Class    Private 
Strasburg,  111.  Medical  Corps 

Born  Jan.  20,  1893,  Cowden ;  teacher;  son  Nelson  and 
Martha  Tones,  Strasburg;  enl.  Tan.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
sent  C.  Greenleaf,  Ga. ;  trfd.  Ft.  Logan  H.  Root,  Ark., 
Jan.  21,  1918;  then  to  C.  Wadsworth,  S.  C.,  June  17, 
1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Aug.  IS,  1919. 

7.  JONES,    HENRY    W.  Radio    Operator    1st    Class 
Windsor,   111.  2nd  Regt.   U.   S.   M.   C. 

Born  Sept.  23,  1899,  Logan,  Ohio:  son  R.  C.  Jones, 
Price,  Utah;  enl.  Mch.  27,  1918,  St.  Louis;  sent  Paris  Is- 
land, S.  C. ;  assigned  23  Co.,  Marines;  promoted  Sgt. ; 
trained  as  radio  opr. ;  sailed  Charleston,  S.  C.,  Dec.  13, 
1918,  on  U.  S.  S.  Kittery;  landed  Port  au  Prince,  Hayti, 
Dec.  24,  1918;  took  part  in  several  engagements  of  sec- 
ond Haytian  campaign;  wounded;  returned  U.  S.  with  2 
Regt.  U.  S.  M.  C.  Dis.  Philadelphia  Navy  Yard,  Sept. 
10.  1919. 

8.  JONES,   WM.    E.  Private 
Windsor,    111.                                           Hq.    Troop,    14    Div. 

Born  Aug.  30,  1891,  Effingham,  Co.;  carpenter;  son  Har- 
rison and  Mary  Jones,  Windsor;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shel- 
byville; sent  C.  Custer;  remained  there  until  discharged 
Feb.  18,  1919. 

9.  TONES,    WM.    FLOYD.  Private 
Herrick,  111.                               Mobile  Vet.  Hospital   No.   1 

Born  Feb.  20,  1895,  Lovington ;  son  Riley  Jones,  dec'd. ; 
gardener;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Taylor; 
trfd.  C.  Lee,  Va.,  Oct.  1;  sailed  Norfolk  Oct.  13;  attacked 
by  submarine ;  landed  Brest  Oct.  26 ;  returned  U.  S.  on 
hospital  ship.  Dis.  Ft.  Sheridan,  Aug.  27,  1919. 

10.  JONES,  WM.  JULIUS  Sergeant 
Tower  Hill,   111.                             Co.   M,  5   Eng.  T'r.   Regt. 

Born,  Aug.  16,  1897,  Herrick;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  G. 
Jones,  Tower  Hill;  R.  R.  brakeman ;  enl.  June  11,  1918, 
St.  Louis ;  sent  Jefferson  Bks. ;  promoted  Cpl.  Sept.  8 ; 
promoted  Sgt.  Oct.  14,  1918;  appointed  company  gas  in- 
structor Oct.  15,  1918;  trfd.  C.  Humphreys,  Va.,  June  22. 
Dis.  C.  Dodge,  la.,  Jan.  8,  1919. 

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1.     JORDAN,   WM.  Private- 

Findlay,  III.  Railhead   Supply    Dept. 

Horn  Mch.  12,  1893,  Raleigh,  Mo.;  farmer;  son  Sarah 
Cleaver,  Oakside,  Mo.;  employed  near  Findlav  :  ml.  Sept. 
5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Custer;  assigned  o.  M  i  ., 
Railhead  Sp.  Del.;  trfd.  C.  Johnston,  Fla.,  (Jet.  10.  Dis. 
C.  (Irani,  Dec.  24,  1918.  Had  previous  service  in  In- 
fantry in  island  possessions. 


Corporal 
Q.    M.    C.    Utilities 


2.     KAISER,    LOUIS   E. 

Oconee,   III. 

Horn  March  18,  1894,  Oconee;  son  Henrv  Kaiser,  Oconee; 
i-nl.  lime  28,  1918,  Shelby ville ;  assigned  p.  M.  C.  Utili- 
ties, C.  Taylor.  Dis.  C.  Taylor,  March  7,  1919. 

i.      KKU.KY.    LEO    HARPER  Corporal 

Shelhyville,    111.  D.    Batt.    149    F.   A.    Rainbow    Div. 

Horn  Dec.  29,  1896,  Shelhyville;  salesman;  son  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  W.  C.  Kelley,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Apr.  7,  1917.  Chi- 
cago; assigned  149  F.  A.,  formerly  1st  111.,  F.  A.;  trained 
5  mos.  Ft.  Sheridan;  sailed  Hohoken  Oct.  18,  1917,  on 
U.  S.  S.  Pres.  Lincoln;  landed  St.  Xazaire ;  under  fire  3 
mos. ;  active  service  Luneville  and  Baccarat  sectors ;  Rain- 
how  Div.  cited  in  many  French  and  American  general  or- 
ders; returned  with  Casual  Det.  85  Div.  Dis.  C.  Grant. 
Apr.  23,  1919.  Detailed  on  special  duty  as  instructor  of 
tiring  of  75  M.  M.  gun  at  Camp  de  Cottquidan,  France. 
One  brother  in  service. 


Corporal 
Gas.    Def.    Chem.    War.    Ser. 


4.  KELLEY,   WM.    L. 

Shelbyville,  111. 
Born  Tuly  27,  1887,  Shelbyville;  lawyer;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
W.  C."  Kelley,  Shelhyville;  enl.  July  31,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  Gas  Defense  Plant,  Chemical  Warfare  Service, 
Long  Island;  promoted  Corp.  Nov.  1,  1918;  trained  1' mo. 
at  Syracuse  Recruiting  Camp,  X.  Y .  ;  Lakehurst  Proving 
Ground,  .\".  J.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Jan.  27,  1919. 

5.  KELLY,  TIMOTHY   MILTON  Sergeant 
Findlay,    111.                                                                   Engineers 

Born  Dec.  6,  1882,  Findlay;  carpenter;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
G.  M.  Kelly,  Findlay ;  married  Ruth  Frazier,  Sept.  3, 
1903;  seven  children;  enl.  June  19,  1918,  Chicago;  as- 
signed Engrs.  Camp  Humphreys,  Va. ;  promoted  Sgt.  C. 
Humphreys,  July  18,  1918;  trained  6  mos.  Dis.  C.  Tay- 
lor, Dec.  "23,  19i8. 

6.  KELLER.    VICTOR  Corporal 
Stewardson,  111.                                Co.  H,  130  Inf.  33  Div. 

Horn  Sept.  26,  1896,  Stewardson;  farmer;  son  Jacob 
Keller,  Stewardson;  enl.  Aug.  13,  1917,  Shelbyville;  in 
Co.  H. ;  trfd.  Supply  Co.  130  Inf.  C.  Logan,  Tex.;  trained 
9  mos.;  promoted  Wagoner  and  Cpl. ;  sailed  N.  Y.  May 

16,  1918,    on    Agamemnon  ;    active    service    Albert     Front, 
Verdun,     Meuse-Argonne,    Boise    de    Forbes,    Trovon     Sur 
Meuse.      Dis.   C.   Grant,   May   31,   1919. 

7.  KENS1L,    John  T.  Ic.    Private 
Shelbyville,"  111.                       Batt.   A,   103    F.   A.,   26   Div. 

Horn  March  27,  1895,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Wm.  Kensil,  Shelbyville;  married  Edith  Luke,  Feb. 

17,  1918;    enl.    June    14,    1918,    Shelbyville;    assigned   Rahe 
Motor  School,  Kansas  C.  Mo.;  trained  4  mos.;   sailed  Ho- 
boken     Oct.     26,     1918,    on    Teiresias ;     broke      down      and 
drifted  3  days  and  nights;  assigned  to   Batt.  A,   103  F.  A.. 
26   Div.      Dis.   C.   Grant,   Apr.   26,    1918. 

8.  KIMMEL,    CLARENCE    ELMER  Corporal 
Shelhyville,  111.                                               17  Co.   159  D.  B. 

Born  Nov.  2,  1895,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  Samuel 
Kimmel,  Shelbyville ;  enl.  lune  28,  Shelbyville ;  assigned 
53  Co.  14  Bn.  "159  D.  B.;  trfd  17  Co.  159  D.  B.,  C.  Tay- 
lor; promoted  Cpl.  Aug.  2,  1918;  trained  5^  mos.  at  C. 
Taylor.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  Dec.  5,  1918.  Previously  served 
with  Co.  II  on  Mexican  border. 

9.  KINDEL,    HARLAN  Mess    Sgt. 
Strasburg,   111.  76   F.  A. 

Born  Jan.  15,  1887,  Clarksville ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tip- 
ton  Kindel,  Strasburg;  enl.  Apr.  30,  1917,  Mattoon :  as- 
signed 18  Cavalry;  trfd.  76  F.  A.  June  10,  1917;  promo- 
tions, Cook,  Cpl.,  Sgt.,  Mess  Sgt.;  trained  12  mos;  sailed 
Apr.  23,  1918:  16  mos.  overseas;  active  service  Cham- 
pagne-Marne,  Aisne-Marne;  in  training  at  Gondrecourt 
Ares  Madres,  France ;  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse-Argonne,  Army 
of  Occupation;  ret.  with  3  Div.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Aug.  31, 
1919.  One  brother  in  service. 

10.  KINDEL,    LAWRENCE  Private 
Strasburg,    111.                                          Co.    B,    118    Engrs. 

Born  Mar.  19,  1889,  Clarksville;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Tipton  Kindel,  Strasburg;  assigned  Co.  H,  118 
Kngrs. ;  trained  3  mos.;  sailed  X.  Y.  Sept.  30,  1918,  on 
Ulysses;  two  surgical  operations  in  France;  carried  off 
a  wrecked  transport  on  return  home  off  Fire  Island,  Jan. 
1.  1919:  in  hospital  in  Brest  with  pneumonia.  Dis.  C. 
Grant,  Mar.  29,  1919.  One  brother  in  service. 

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1.  KING,  ARTHUR   EDWARD  Acting  Lieut. 
Shelbyville,   111.                                  Co.   G,  C.    I.   O.,  T.   C. 

Born  Feb.  6,  1887,  Shelbyville;  salesman;  enl.  May  24, 
1918;  sent  Teff.  liks.,  Mo.;  assigned  Co.  E,  37  Inf.,  C. 
Mclntosh ;  attended  C.  I.  ().  T.  C.  at  C.  McArtlnir, 
Waco,  Tex.  ;  trained  6  mos.  Dis.  C.  Me. \rthur,  Oct.  28, 
1918. 

2.  KINGSTON*,    RAY  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                  Hq.  Co.,   119   Infantry,  30   Div. 

School  teacher;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C. 
Taylor,  Ky.  ;  one  month  later  sent  C.  Sevier,  S.  C.,  and 
assigned  Hq.  Co.,  119  Inf.,  30  Div.,  as  buzzer  phone  oper- 
ator; sailed  Hoboken  May  11;  landed  Liverpool;  brigaded 
with  British  2nd  .Army  Corps  May  30,  for  signal  training, 
support  N  pres  sector,  June,  1918;  fought  at  Vpres,  Yoor- 
mezeele.  Bellicourt,  broke  Ilindenburg  line  Sept.  29, 
Mazincourt,  Busigny,  St.  Souplet,  Mazingham,  Ribeville ; 
wounded  shrapnel,  Sept.  29,  gassed  ;  had  24  days'  leave  in 
Itritish  Isles.  His.  April  13,  1919,  Camp  Grant. 

KIXXEY,   EYERETT  Private 

Moueaqtia,    III.  Co.    E,  393    Engrs.,   78   Uiv. 

Son  Mrs.  Elmer  Kinney.  Moweaqua;  enl.  July  29,  1918. 
Storm  Lake,  la.  ;  Co.  E,  303  Engrs.,  78  Div.,  C.  Forrest. 
Ga. ;  sailed  Oct.  28.  Dis.  June  13,  1919,  C.  Dodge,  la. 
Two  brothers  in  service. 


Sergeant 
Batt.   I!,   12  F.  A.,  2   Div. 


3.  KIXXEY,  WALTER 
Moweaqua,  111. 

Son  Mrs.  Elmer  Kinney,  Moweaqua;  enl.  Aug.  18,  1916, 
Batt.  B.  12  F.  A.,  2  Div.,  Laredo,  Tex.;  trf.  Ft.  Meyers, 
Ya. :  trf.  Camp  Travis,  Tex.;  sailed  Jan.  16,  1918:  under 
fire  4  mos.  ;  gassed  ;  active  service,  Verdun,  Ton!,  Troyon, 
Chateau  Thierry,  Soissons,  Marne,  Marbache,  St.  Mihiel. 
Champagne,  Meuse-Argonne,  Mt.  Blanc,  Army  of  Occupa- 
tion. Two  brothers  in  service. 

4.  KIXXEY,    WM.  Wagoner 
Moweaqua,   111.              Co.  C.,  52   Amm.  Train,  C.  A.   C. 

Enl.  Decatur,  111.,  Dec.  1,  1917;  assigned  Co.  C,  522  Amm. 
Train,  C.  A.  C. ;  sent  Ft.  McArthur,  Los  Angeles  Coast 
Defense:  sailed  May  26,  1918;  was  under  fire  84  hours;  8 
mos.  overseas ;  on  Meuse-Argonne  3  mos.  Dis.  C.  Dodge, 
la.,  Feb.  16,  1919.  Two  brothers  in  service. 

5.  KIRCHER.    CHRIS    M.  Private 
Strasburg,  111.                                                 45   Co.   160  I).  B. 

Horn  June  7,  1893,  Strasburg;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
L.  I.  Kircher,  Strasburg;  married  Louise  Loeding,  Apr. 
22,  1919:  enl.  Sept.  5,  Shelbyville;  assigned  4  Recruit 
Sqdn..  Air  Service,  Ft.  Wayne;  trained  4'/'  mos.  Dis. 
Jan.  23.  1919,  Detroit. 

6.  KIRCHER.   GWEX  Private 
Windsor.    111.                                           Co.    82,   U.    S.    Marines 

Enl.  Jan.  5,  1918,  St.  Louis;  landed  in  France  May  6, 
1918;  wounded  by  shrapnel  and  machine  gun  July  19, 
1918;  in  service  15  mos.;  in  France  10  mos.  Dis.  March 
19,  Ouantico,  Ya. 

7.  KLAUSER,  ARTHUR  RUFF  Corporal 
Shelbyville,    111.                                          Co.    I,    23    Engineers 

Horn  Sept.  22,  1897,  Shelbyville;  clerical  work;  son  Gus 
Klauser;  enl.  Xov.  28,  1917,  Columbus  Bar,  Ohio;  as- 
signed Co.  I,  Engrs  1st  Army;  trained  3  mos.;  sailed 
Hoboken.  Mar.  3,  1918;  made  Cpl.  in  France;  at  front  3 
mos.:  active  service,  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse-Argonne;  outfit 
cited  by  Chief  Engr.  during  Meuse-Argonne,  and  St.  Mi- 
hiel Off.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  June  18,  1919. 

«      KLAUSER,    CHAS.   C.  Sergeant 

Shelbyville,   111.  45  Co.   12   Bn.   160   I).   B. 


9.     KI.AUSER,    WILLIAM  Captain 

Shelbyville,    111.  Infantry    U.   S.   Army. 

Son     G.     Klauser,     Shelbyville;     wife.  Carrie     Ernst; 


10.     KLEIMEIER,   ERW'IX  J.  Yeo.    2    C. 

Strasburg,   111.  U.   S.   Navy. 

Enl.  Peoria,  May  31,  1918,  in  navy;  in  service  U.  S.  S. 
Peoria  and  U.  S.  N.  T.  S.  Great  Lakes.  Dis.  Sept.  9, 
1919,  X.  T.  S.  Great  Lakes. 

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1.  KXELLER,    GEORGE  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                           Bradley    Polytechnic    Inst. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  13,  '1918;  sent  C.  Bradley  for 
training.  Dis.  a  few  weeks  after  armistice  was  signed. 

2.  KOESTER,   WM.   J.    II.  Private 
Sigel,    111.                                                            45    Co.    160    D.    I'.. 

Enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  45  Co.,  C.  Cas- 
ter, Mich.;  trained  ZYi  mos.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Dec.  26, 
1918. 

3.  KRIEBU-:,   GUY   E.  Corporal 
Stewardson,  111.                      Hd<|.  Co.  308  F.  A.,  78  Div. 

Born  Sept.  18,  1891,  Lovington ;  telegraph  operator;  son 
Xoah  Krieble.  Stewardson;  enl.  Apr.  30,  1918.  Shelby- 
ville; assigned  Ildq.  Co.  308  F.  A.,  78  Div.,  C.  Dix  X.  J.; 
made  Cpl.  in  Fr. ;  sailed  Hoboken,  May  26,  1918,  on 
Cedric :  trained  C'.  Meucon;  under  fire  2  mos.;  active 
service  Toul  sector.  St.  Mihiel,  Suppe  to  Moselle,  Meuse- 
Areonne,  Grand  Pre ;  gassed.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  27, 
1919. 

KRUGER,    LOUIS   J.  Wagoner 

Stewardson,   111.  Headquarters    Co.    37    Inf. 

Born  April  22,  1890,  Stewardson;  brakeman :  son  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  August  Kruger,  Stewardson;  inducted  May  23,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  sent  Jefferson  Barracks;  trfd.  Ft.  Mclntosh; 
trained  15  mo.  Dis.  Aug.  26,  1919,  Ft.  Mclntosh;  two 
brothers  in  service. 

4.  KRUGER,    WILLIAM    F.  Mechanic 
Stewardson,    111.                                   Co.    K,    19th    Infantry 

Born  Aug.  6,  1892,  Stewardson;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  August  Kruger,  Stewardson;  enl.  Mattoon.  May  23, 
1917;  assigned  Jefferson  Bks.,  Mo.;  trfd.  Ft.  Sam  Hous- 
ton; trained  12  mos.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Jan.  31,  1919;  served 
K  mos.  on  Mexican  border;  under  fire  several  times  at  Ei 
Paso ;  two  brothers  in  service. 

5.  KULL,   ARTHUR    F.  Sergeant 
Shelbyville,    111.                                Motor    Transport    Corps 

Born  Aug.  5,  1892,  Shelbyville;  merchant;  son  Jacob  Kull, 
Shelbyville;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Hillsboro ;  assigned  159 
I).  B..  C.  Taylor,  Ky. ;  promoted  Sgt.  Dec.  6.  1918; 
trfd.  Army  Reserve  Depot,  Xew  Cumberland.  Pa.  Dis. 
May  1,  1919,  at  Xew  Cumberland,  Pa.;  two  brothers  in 
service. 


6.     KULL,  CARL  A. 
Shelbyville,    111. 


Corporal 

23    Kngrs.    Wagon   Co.   4 


Morn  Sept.  12,  1896,  Shelbyville:  student;  son  Tacob  Kull, 
Shelbyville;  enl.  Nov.  17,  1917,  Chicago;  assigned  23 
Engrs.,  Wagon  Co.  Xo.  4  ;  made  Cpl.  in  Fr. ;  trained  7 
mos.;  sailed  Iloboken,  March  30,  1918;  under  lire  15 
days;  active  service  Argonne,  St.  Mihiel;  road  building 
work.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  June  27,  1919;  two  brothers  in 
service. 

KULL.    EMU.  Strasburg,  III. 

In  service  overseas ;  returned  to  U.  S.  and  assigned  to 
Camp  Upton.  X.  Y.,  where  he  was  discharged  in  spring  of 
1919. 

7.  KULL,    PAUL   II.  Mess   Sergeant 
Shelbyville,    111.                              Co.    II,    130   Inf.,   33    Div. 

Born  Aug.  1,  1894,  Shelbyville;  metal  polisher;  son  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Jacob  Kull,  Shelbyville;  enl.  May  21,  1917, 
Shelbyville;  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. ;'  trained  C. 
.Logan,  Tex.;  sailed  Iloboken,  May  16,  1918,  on  Agamem- 
non; went  to  front  July,  1918:  active  service  Meuse-Ar- 
gonne,  Albert  front.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  31,  1919;  two 
brothers  in  service. 

8.  KULL,  ROY  1st  Sgt. 
Shelbyville,   111.                                Co.  H,  130  Inf..  33   Div. 

Born  Feb.  22,  1894,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  John  Kull. 
Shelbyville:  enl.  May  22,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  II.  130 
Inf.,  33  Div.;  promoted  C'pl.  at  Shelbyville:  Sgt.  at  C. 
Logan,  Tex.;  1st  Sgt.  at  Argonne;  attended  3rd  O.  T.  C.  ; 
trained  13  mos.;  active  service  Meuse- Argonne,  Albert. 
Dis.  Apr.  30,  1918,  at  St.  Aignan ,  'lid  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work 
in  Paris  and  I.e  Mans.  Dis.  July  26,  1919,  Paris,  France. 

9.  KULL,  GEORGE   E.  Private 
Strasburg,    III.                                         Motor   Trans.   Corps. 

Morn  Oct.  16,  1896,  Strasburg;  bookkeeper:  son  J.  J. 
Kull.  Strasburg;  enl.  May  30,  1918,  Detroit;  assigned 
Motor  Transport  Corps,  Columbus,  Ohio;  trfd.  C.  Johns- 
ton; trained  3  mos.;  sailed  Xewport  Xews,  Aug.  3'),  191H. 
on  Caserta ;  M.  T.  work  with  Hq.  at  Bordeaux.  Dis. 
Camp  Sherman,  July,  1919. 

10.  KUHL,  JOHN  CARY  Corporal 
Windsor,  "ill.                                   Ilq.   Co.,   10   Inf.,   14  Div. 

Enl.  May  29,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  Ft.  Thomas,  Ga.  ; 
trfd.  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison,  10  Inf.;  promoted  Cpl.  Dis. 
C.  Custer.  May  6,  1919. 

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1.  LAMP,,    ORYILLE  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                  Med.    Del.,    130    Inf.,    33     Div. 

Born  Mch.  27,  1898,  Shelbyville  ;  card  writer  and  window 
decorator;  son  Chas.  F.  and  Jennie  Lamb,  Shelbyville; 
enl.  .Shelbyville,  July  13,  1917;  assigned  Co.  H.,  130  Inf.; 
sent  C.  Logan;  sailed  Iloboken.  .May  14,  1918;  landed 
Brest;  firing  line  69  days;  Somme  offensive;  Meuse-Ar- 
gonne  offensive.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  30,  1919. 

2.  I.AMSOX,   PHILIP   E.  Corporal 
Cowden,    111.                                                     Hq.  Co.,  308  F.  A. 

Born  Xov.  21,  1891,  Cowden;  Western  Union  Inspector; 
son  Mrs.  ().  Lamson.  Cowden;  enl.  Apr.  30,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville; assigned  Hq.  Co.,  308  F.  A.,  Camp  Dix.  ;  promoted 
Cpl.  Mch.  12,  1919;  sailed  Iloboken,  May  27,  1918;  land- 
ed Liverpool  ;  firing  line  Aug.  28  to  Xov.  1  1  ;  Toul  sec- 
tor. St.  Mihiel  offensive.  Moselle  offensive,  Meuse-Ar- 
gonne  offensive,  Grand  Pre  ;  telephone  detail.  Dis.  C. 
Grant,  May  27,  1919. 

3.  LARGEXT,  ALPHA   E.  1st   Class   Private 
Clarksburg,    111.               Supply    Co.,    327    F.    A.,   84    Div. 

Born  Feb.  18,  1890;  Strasburg;  farmer;  son  Daniel  V. 
and  Mary  E.  Largent,  Clarksburg;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept. 
18,  1917;  sent  C.  Taylor;  assigned  327  F.  A.,  84  Div.; 
trfd.  West  Point;  promoted  wagoner;  sailed  C.  Mills, 
Sept.  9,  1918;  landed  Liverpool;  trained  at  De  Souge. 
Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  19,  1919. 


4.      LARIMORE,   ROLLIE   W. 

Beecher  City,    111. 
Born 


1st  Class    Private 
Batt.   C,   308   F.   A. 


5.  LAUER,    REV.    CARL    FREDERICK  Capt.-Chap. 
Logan,    Ohio.                            Intelligence    Officer,    33     Div. 

Minister;  born  Oppelspohn,  Wurtemburg,  Germany. 
lanilt'd  in  U.  S.  when  5  mos:  old;  married  Florence  M. 
Gottschall  ;  3  children  ;  commissioned  Shelbyville,  Feb. 
3,  1916;  served  on  border  1917;  trained  C.  Logan  as 
chaplain  and  sailed  with  33  Div.  ;  overseas  service  mainly 
on  33  Div.  staff  as  Intelligence  Officer;  only  Chaplain  in 
history  of  army  to  be  detailed  to  General  Staff  ;  at  Cham- 
pagne, St.  Mihiel,  Verdun,  Troyon  sectors,  Somme, 
Meuse-Argonne  offensives;  cited  for  gallantry.  Dis.  May 
28,  1919,  C.  Grant,  as  Chaplain  and  Captain  of  130  Inf. 

6.  LAVER,   HOMER   I..  Wagoner 
Stewardson,    111.                                                  122   M.   G.   Co 

Born  Tan.  28,  1896,  Stewardson;  farmer;  son  Adams  and 
Stella  Laver,  Stewardson;  enl.  May  30,  1917,  Co.  K,  5 
Inf.,  while  at  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Logan;  assigned  12J 
M.  G.  C'o.  ;  promoted  truck  driver;  sailed  New  York, 
May  10,  1918;  landed  Brest:  firing  line  10  days:  Baden 
line,  Aisne,  Verdun,  Meuse-Argonne,  Bois  de  Forges. 
Bois  de  Chaume,  Bois  de  Plat,  Troyon  sur  Mense.  Dis. 
C'.  Grant  May  29,  1919. 

7.  LAWIIORX,    TAS.    F.  Battery    Saddler 
Cowden,    111.      "                         Batt.    D,    327    F.    A.,    84    Div. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  19,  1917;  sent  C.  Taylor;  assigned 
Batt.  I),  327  F.  A.,  84  Div.;  sailed  Sept.  8,  1918;  pro- 
moted battery  saddler,  C.  De  Souge,  Fr.  Dis.  C.  Grant, 
Feb.  18,  1919. 

8.  LEE,  ALOXZO  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                Co.  H,   130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Born  Feb.  9,  1898,  Mode;  farmer;  enl.  July  10,  1917, 
Shelbyville,  Co.  II,  130  Inf.;  sent  C.  Logan,  Oct.  9; 
sailed  Iloboken,  May  15,  1919;  with  Co.  H  at  Amiens 
Road  and  Albert  front;  trfd.  Labor  I!n.  in  Sept.  1918. 
Dis.  Aug.  6  at  Upton  and  re-enlisted  in  Air  Service  at 
Mineola.  Aug.  6. 

9.  LEE,    TAS.    E.  Private 
Findlay.  111.                                                        77  Inf.,   14   Div. 

Born  Jan.  13,  1894,  Marion,  111.:  farmer;  son  B.  F.  l.ee, 
Findlay;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  5,  1918;  sent  C.  Custer  ; 
assigned  77  Inf.,  14  Div.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  5,  1919: 
brother  of  Elza  Lee,  who  died  in  France. 


LEES.   HARRY    II. 

Enlisted   through   local   hoard. 

LEEDS,  FRED  M. 
LEEDS,  HARRY  D. 


Oconee,   111. 

Windsor.    111. 
Windsor,   111. 


10.     LESLEY,    WILLIAM    FRAXKLIX  Gunner 

Findlay,   111.  I'.   S.   Xavy 

Born  March  27,  1898,  Shelby  Co.;  farmer;  son  A.  M. 
anil  Sarah  E.  Lesley,  Findlay;  enl.  May  31,  1918,  Dc- 
catur ;  navy ;  gunner ;  sailed  from  Ellis  Island,  transport 
Xew  Orleans;  made  three  voyages.  Dis.  Xew  York. 

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1.     LEFFLER,  FRED  S.  Windsor,    111. 

Son    Mrs.    J.    Spurlin,    Windsor;    served    during    period    of 
war  in  army. 


LEFFLER,  WM.  FARMER 
Windsor.   111. 


Cook 

Co.  H,  125  M.  C.  I'.n. 
Horn  Sept.  16,  1884,  Windsor;  farmer;  son  Mrs.  J.  Spur- 
lin, Windsor;  enl.  Tune  4,  1917,  Webster  City,  la.;  sent 
C.  Cody;  assigned  Co.  B,  125  M.  G.  Bn. ;  sailed  Hoboken. 
Sept.  16,  1918 ;  landed  Liverpool ;  returned  U.  S.  Casual 
Co.  118.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Aug.  11,  1919. 

3.  LEMONS,  FRED  E.  Private 
Windsor,    111. 

Son  of  Mrs.  Laura  A.  Lemons,  Windsor;  enl.  Shelbyvillr 
May  27,  1918;  sent  Camp  Shelby.  Dis.  in  April,  19'l9. 

4.  LEMONS,  HOWARD  E.  Regimental   Bugler 
Windsor,  111.  Hq.  Co.  327   F.  A. 

Kill.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  19,  1917;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor; 
assigned  Hq.  Co.  327  F.  A. ;  served  through  with  327th 
as  Regtl.  Bugler  and  member  of  band ;  was  in  charge  of 
all  regtl.  buglers  for  3  mos. 

LEWAV,  OSCAR  A.  Tower  Hill,  111. 

Enl.   Shelbyville  Aug.   30,   1918;  assigned   to   C.   Grant,   111. 


LILLY,  ALFRED  S. 
Windsor,   111. 


Private 

Engineer  Corps 
Born    Sept.    27,    1896,    Windsor;    asst.    cashier;    son    Hugh 

5.  and   Mabel   S.   Lilly,   Windsor;   volunteered   3   times   but 
rejected    account    physical    condition  :    then    volunteered    for 
limited    service;    called    Oct.    12,    1918,    Chicago,    as    topo- 
graphical map  maker,  Engineer  Corps.     Dis.  Oct.  23,   1918, 
Columbus  Bks.,  Ohio;  one  brother  in  service. 

6.  LILLY,   HOWARD  S.  1st   Class  Private 
Windsor,  111.                                             6   M.  C..   Hn.,  2  Div. 

Horn  Feb.  23,  1899,  Windsor;  student;  son  Hugh  S.  and 
Mabel  S.  Lilly;  enl.  Jan.  2,  1918,  St.  Louis,  in  Marines: 
sent  Paris  Island,  S.  C. ;  promoted  1st  Class  Pvt.,  Jan., 
1919:  sailed  Philadelphia,  Apr.  22,  1918;  landed  I'.fest ; 
tiring  line  6  mos. ;  Chateau-Thierry,  Soissons,  Mont-a- 
Mousson,  St.  Mihiel,  Champagne,  Meuse-Argonne :  outfit 
cited  three  times;  Army  of  Occupation  until  July  18,  1919. 
Released  Aug.  15,  1919,  Quantico,  Va. 

7.  LINDLEY,  CLYDE   ELMER  Corporal 
Indianapolis,  Ind.                          Co.   K,   334   Inf.,  84   Div. 

Born  Ian.  18,  1890,  Shelby  Co.;  teacher  and  farmer;  son 
Mrs.  W.  W.  Warren,  Windsor;  enl.  Sept.  21,  1917,  In- 
dianapolis, Ind. ;  assigned  C.  Taylor,  Co.  K.  334  Inf., 
84  I)iv. :  promoted  Cpl. ;  trf.  Ft.  Thomas,  Apr.  30,  1918, 
31  Co.  Dis.  May  20,  1919,  Ft.  Thomas. 

LIXDSEY,   CLAUDE 

Served  in  France  in  .Air  Service  II<|. 

UVI.XGSTON,  HARRY  W.  1st  Cl.  Private 

Moweaqua,  111.  Co.  C,   130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Horn  Xoy.  19,  1895,  Moweaqua;  chauffeur;  son  X.  B.  and 
Louisa  Livingston,  Moweaqua ;  enl.  Sullivan,  July  28,  1917: 
assigned  Co.  C,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.,  Camp  Logan;  particular 
work,  hand-grenade,  automatic-rifle,  wireless  school.  Dis. 
C'.  Logan  April  21,  1918. 


LITTLE,  BAYLISS 


Moweaqua,   HI. 


8.  LOVINS,  LAWRENCE  Cook 
Shelbyville,   111.                                     Co.   I,   34  Inf.,   7  Div. 

Born  Sept.  17,  1891,  Windsor;  painter;  son  A.  E.  and 
Nancy  Lovins,  Shelbyville;  enl.  May  19,  1917,  Jefferson 
Bks.;  assigned  Ft.  Bliss,  June  1,  1917,  Co.  I,  34  Inf., 
7  Div.:  trf.  C.  McArthur;  promoted  cook  in  France;  sailed 
Hoboken,  Aug.  18,  1918;  landed  Brest:  firing  line  45  days; 
St.  Mihiel.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  July  5,  1919. 

9.  LOWARY,  HOWARD  Cook 

Shelbyville,  111.  25  Reg.  Supply  Co.,  F.  A. 

Born  1894,  Shelbyville;  barber;  son  Daniel  and  Susan 
Lowary,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Springfield,  Tune  25,  1918;  sent 
C.  Taylor;  trf.  C.  McClellan ;  trf.  C.  Mills;  promoted 
cook.  Dis.  Feb.  5,  1919,  C.  Taylor. 

10.  LOWERY,   ORIS   P.  Sergeant 
Strxvardson,  111.                                         494  Aero  Squadron 

Sun  Mrs.  J.  S.  Lowery :  enl.  July  .21,  1917,  Ft.  Thomas, 
Ky. ;  signal  corps;  trf.  Kelly  Field,  Tex.,  82  Aero  Sqdn.; 
sailed  Nov.,  1917;  trf.  494  Aero  Sqdn.;  promoted  Sgt. 
Arrived  New  York,  May  3,  1919. 

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I.OFLAND,   CLYDE   KARL  Mode.   111. 

Knl.   June   28,    1918,   Shelliyville ;   assigned   to   C.    Taylor. 

I. (IXC,.   JESSE  Moweaqua,    111. 

LORTON.  JOSEPH  Cowden.   Ill 

Enl.  through  local  board  ;   assigned  to  C.  A.  C.,   Teff.   liks., 
March   14,    1918. 


1.      LOWE.    EARL  Private 

Tower   Hill,    111.  Engineers 

Horn  Nov.  17,  1889,  Tower  Hill;  farmer:  son  Tolln  and 
Elizabeth  Lowe,  Tower  Hill;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville:  sent  C.  Taylor;  assigned  Engineers;  was  overseas. 

LOWE.    WAYNE  Private 

Moweaqua.   III.  Co.    M.    113   Inf..   29   Div. 

Enl.  Decatur,  lime  1,  1918;  assigned  to  Co.  M,  113  Inf., 
29  Div.:  sailed  Oct.  1.  1918;  tiring  line  2  weeks.  Dis.  C. 
<:rant.  May  30,  1919. 


LOWERY,  RAY   C.  Private 

Stewardson,   III.  Signal   Corps 

Son    Mrs.    .1.    S.    I.owery  ;    enl.    Ft.    Thomas,  Ky.,    July    21, 

1917:  Signal  Corps.     Dis.  account  disability.  Aug.   15,  1917. 


2.      LUCAS,   RKNZO   I). 


Private 


Windsor,   111.  Co.   F.  67   Inf.,  67   Div. 

Born  June  10,  1896;  son  Martha  Lucas,  Hardensburg,  Ky. ; 
enl.  Aug.  7,  1918,  Breckenridge  C'o.,  Ky. ;  assigned  Ft. 
Thomas.  C'o.  F,  67  Inf.,  67  Div.;  trf.  C".  Sheridan,  Supply 
C'o.  :  trf.  C'.  Taylor,  Co.  F,  67  Inf.,  67  Div.  Dis.  C'.  Tay- 
lor. Nov.  15,  1918:  brother  Wm.  Lucas  killed  in  France. 


3.      LUnWIG.   WM.    A.  Private 

Sigel.    111.  M.  T.   C.   Transport  Unit 

Son  Elizabeth  Ludwig,  Sigel;  enl.  May  29.  1918,  Shelby- 
ville :  sent  Ft.  Thomas;  trf.  Ft.  Benjamin  Harrison:  trf. 
C'.  C'uster ;  trf.  C.  Beauregard :  assigned  M.  T.  C'.  Trans- 
port Unit.  Dis.  C'.  Beauregard. 


4.  LUGAR.  KARL  KKXNKTII  1st  Class   Private 
Sigel.    111.  Bat.   D,  327   F.  A. 

Horn    Oct.    11,    1895,    Sigel;    farmer:    son    Giles   and    Rhodi 

Lugar.    Sigel:    enl.    Shelbyville,    Sept.  18,    1917;    sent    C. 

Taylor:    assigned    Hat.    I),    327    F.    A.;  sailed    Xew    York, 

Sept.  9.  1918:  landed  Liverpool.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  19, 
1919. 

5.  LUMP!',   HENRY   S.  Private 
Findlay.    111.                                   Batt.   C,   326   F.   A.,  84    Div. 

Horn  Dec.  24,  1894,  Shelby  Co.;  farmer;  son  A.  T.  Lump]). 
Findlay:  enl.  Shelbyville.  June  28.  1918;  assigned  C.  Tay- 
lor. 53  Co.,  159  D.  n.  ;  trf.  West  Point,  liatt.  C'.  326  F.  A., 
84  Div.;  sailed  New  York,  Sept.  8,  1918;  landed  Glasgow: 
telephone  operator.  Dis.  C'.  Grant,  March  1,  1919. 

6.  LYONS.  GEO.   E.  Private 
Herrick.    III.                                                  C'o.    G,   22    Engineers 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  lune  28,  1918;  sent  C.  Taylor;  assigned 
Co.  G.  22  Engineers;  sailed  Aug.  22,  1918.  Dis.  C.  Grant. 
July  16,  1919. 


7.      MACKLIN.   WM.   S. 

Findlay,    111. 

Horn    June    10,    1895,    Find 
Joseph    Macklin.   Findlay  :    enl. 


First  Class   Private 
Co.   B.  37   Inf. 
farmer;    son    Mr.    and    Mrs. 
May    23,    1918,    Shelbyville; 


sent  Jefferson  Bks.,  then  Ft.  Mclntosh,  Tex. ;  assigned  Co. 
H,  37  Inf.:  served  on  Mexican  border;  trained  8  mos. 
Dis.  Ft.  Mclntosh,  Laredo,  Tex.,  Feb.  4,  1919. 

8.     MALONE,  JOHN  J.  Private 

Shelbyville,  111.  Bat.  I),  1st  Reg.  F.  A.  R.  D. 

Horn  March  21,  1893.  Bement,  111.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
John  J.  Malone,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  enl.  June  28,  1918, 
Shelbyville :  assigned  to  53  Co.,  Depot  Brigade,  C.  Tay- 
lor; trf.  to  Bat.  D,  1st  Reg.  F.  A.  R.  D. ;  training  for 
wagoner  at  C.  Taylor  6  mos;  in  hospital,  influenza  and 
pneumonia.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  Dec.  11,  1918. 


9.      MANNING,  CHAS. 


Henton,   111. 


10.  MANNING,  FORREST  W.  Shelbyville,   111. 

Son    Mr.   and    Mrs.    Lewis   Manning.   Shelbyville;   enl.   June 
14,  1918:  sent  Rahe  Auto  School,  Kansas  City. 

I'age    One    Hundred    Fifty-Three 


1.  MANNING,  NEIL  I'rivau- 
Shelbyville,  111.                              Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Enl.  Co.  H,  130  Inf..  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Logan,  Oct., 
1918:  sent  overseas  May  15,  1919,  from  Hoboken  •  while 
in  France  trf.  to  Supply  Co.,  130  Inf.  Dis.  C.  Grant  sum- 
mer of  1919. 

2.  MARMOR,   FORREST  S.  Private 
Moweaqua,  111.                                                     Co.  F,   18   Inf. 

Enl.  Apr.  6,  1917,  Decatur,  111.;  Co.  F,  18  Inf.,  Douglas, 
Arizona:  sailed  for  France  June  14,  1917;  served  in  Army 
of  ( Jccupation  in  Germany  for  a  period  of  seven  months, 
making  a  little  over  25  mos.  in  Europe.  Dis.  C  Grant 
Aug.  8,  1919. 

3.  MARSH,  WM.  HOWARD  Private 
Fancher,   111.                                             Co.   B,  37   Engineers 

ICnl.  Chicago,  March  25,  1918;  assigned  Co.  B,  37  Engrs., 
Ft.  Myers,  Va. ;  sailed  June  29,  1918.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Mav 
7.  1919. 

4.  MARS.    CHARLES    W.  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                                            Co.   G,  22    Engineers 

I'.orn  May  23,  1895,  Clarksburg;  farmer;  son  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth Mars.  Shelbyville;  enl.  June  27,  1918.  Shelb>  ville  - 
assigned  Co.  G,  22  Kngrs.,  C.  Taylor;  trf.  Ft.  Benjamin 
Harrison  with  22  Engrs.;  trf.  C.  Upton,  X.  Y.  Dis.  Jan. 
23,  1919,  C'.  Grant;  one  brother  died  in  service. 


MAKTI.V,    DR.    FKAXKI.IX 
Tower  Hill.   111. 


Major 

Medical   Corps 

Horn  Sept.  26,  1874,  son  Mrs.  Caroline  W.  Martin  Tower 
Hill;  married  Sept.  27,  1899.  to  Olive  McCuIlotlgh,  dau. 
Mrs.  Nancy  J.  McCuIlough;  4  children;  physician  and 
surgeon;  enl.  July  17,  1917,  Springfield,  in  M'.  O.  T.  C., 
Ft.  Oglethorpe,  com.  1st  Lieut.,  Aug.  11,  1917;  promoted 
I  apt.,  then  Major;  trf.  to  Base  Hosp.  at  Camp  Lewis;  in 
training  11  mos.  15  days;  sailed  Hoboken  Sept.  26,  1918; 
transport  La  France;  landed  Brest  Oct.  5;  assigned  to 
I!.  Hosp.  Xo.  208;  trf.  to  Bordeaux  to  relieve  Base  Xo.  6; 
on  duty  Ft.  Sheridan,  July  24-Aug.  20,  1919,  when  dis. 

6.      MARTIX,   FRED  Private 

Shelbyville,   111.  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Sent  C.  Logan,  Oct.  9,  1918;  trained  9  mos.;  sailed  Ho- 
boken. May  15.  1918,  on  transport  Agamemnon:  under 
lire  69  days:  active  service  Meuse-Argonne,  Somme  Al- 
bert. His.  May,  1919,  C.  Grant. 


MARTIX.   FRED   M. 


111. 


;.      MAKXMAXX,   EDMTXD   I..  Private 

Shelbyville,  111.  Co.  L,  154  Inf.,  39  Div. 

Horn  1893,  Shelby  county;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  July  20.  1918, 
to  Co.  L,  15-1  Inf.,  39  Div.,  Beaureguard ;  in  training  10 
mos.;  sailed  from  Xewport  News,  Va.,  Aug.  6,  1918; 
landtil  at  Drest  Aug.  18,  1918;  in  hospital,  influenza.  Dis. 
C.  Grant  April  17,  1919. 

8.      MATIIIAS.  ALVIX   FRED  Corporal 

Tower   Hill,    111.  27    Co.,    C.    A.    C. 

Morn  March  4,  1899,  Shelby  Co.;  son  Mrs.  E.  A.  Mathias, 
Tower  Hill:  farmer;  enl.  May  1,  1918,  Mattoon :  Coast 
Artillery  C'orps ;  at  Jeff.  Bks.,  2  weeks;  sent  to  Ft.  Tutten, 
Long  Island:  assigned  to  27th  Co.;  trained  for  gunner 
9  mos.,  15  days.  Dis.  C.  (Irani  Feb.  14,  1919. 


9.     MATHIAS,  C.  L. 
Tower   Hill.    III. 


Sergeant    1st   C!. 
402  Telegraph   Bn. 
I'.orn   Aug.    19,    1883,  Shelby   Co.:  son  Mrs.    E.  A.  Mathias, 
Tower   Hill;    married   Oct.    12,    1917,    Elizabeth  Jones,   dau. 


L.  F.  Jones,  Middletown,  Ky. ;  enl.  June  4,  1917,  Louis- 
ville, Ky.  ;  assigned  402  Telegraph  Bn.,  Camp  lackson, 
S.  C. :  promoted  Cpl.,  Dec.  16,  1917;  Sgt.,  Jan.  18,  1918; 
First  Class  Sgt.,  Dec.  1,  1918;  in  training  8  mos.:  sailed 
Xewport  Xews  June  30,  1918;  landed  Brest  July  13,  1918; 
began  work  of  constructing  telephone  and  telegraph  lines 
immediately  upon  arrival.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  July  5,  1919. 


in.   MATHIAS,  EARL  STANLEY  Corporal 

Tower  Hill,  111.  58th  Inf..  4   Div. 

Horn  Sept.  9,  1895,  Shelby  Co.;  son  Mrs.  E.  A.  Mathias; 
farmer;  enl.  May  4,  1917,  at  Red  Woods  Falls.  Minn.; 
assigned  to  Co.  L,  136  Inf.,  C.  Cody;  trf.  June  27.  C. 
Merritt.  58  Inf..  4  Div.;  in  training  13  mos.;  sailed  from 
Hoboken;  landed  Liverpool  July  15,  1918;  87  days  in 
action;  at  Aisne-Marne,  Somme,  St.  Mihiel,  Meusc-Ar- 
gonne ;  made  Cpl.  in  France.  Dis.  Aug.  8,  C.  Dodge,  la. 

MATTHEWS,  JOHN  Herrick.   111. 

KnI.   Shelbyville,   May   27,   1918;   sent  to  Camp  Shelby. 

MATSOX.   EDWARD 

KnI.  through  local  board  from  Detroit,  Mich. 

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1.  MAUZEY,  WILLIAM  BRYAN  2d  Lieut. 
Fimllay,    111.  Infantry 

Born  Feb.  21,  1897,  Findlay  ;  son  Dr.  George  W.  Mauzey, 
Findlay  ;  bookkeeper;  enlisted  May  12,  1917.  Jeff.  Bks. : 
assigned  Hq.  Co.,  16  Inf.;  sailed  June  14,  1917;  landed 
St.  Xazaire,  June  26,  1917;  made  (."pi.,  July  12,  1917; 
com.  2nd  Lt.  Inf.,  May  13,  1918;  attended  First  Army 
Candidates  School,  I.angres,  Fr. ;  in  action  at  1-imeville 
sector,  Gommercourt  woods,  Aisne-Marne  off.,  St.  Mihiel, 
Meuse-Argonne,  Verdun,  Vesle  River,  with  Hiirs.  Co.,  16th 
Inf.  and  Co.  A,  llth  M.  G.  Bn. ;  wounded  Sept.  28,  1918, 
in  Meuse-Argonne  off.,  gun  shot  right  thigh ;  in  hospital 
until  Xov.  2,  1918;  assigned  to  duty  with  Railway  Trans. 
Corps  after  discharge  from  hospital ;  served  with  R.  T.  C. 
until  June  13,  1919.  Dis.  July  7,  1919.  C.,I>ix,  X.  J. 

2.  MAN'.  JOHN"  SYLVESTER  Sigel,  111. 
Born    Sept.   27,    1896,    Sigel;    son    Geo.    May;    farmer;    enl. 
June  27,    1918,   Shelby  ville ;  assigned  to  54  Co.,   C.  Taylor; 
trf.  Aug.  9  to  Remount  Station  319.      Dis.  April  8,   1919. 

3.  MKLTOX,  LESTER  Corporal 
Stonington,  111.                                Co.  II,   130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Farmer;  son  Elsie  Melton,  Stonington;  enl.  Sept.  25,  1917, 
Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf.;  sent  C.  Logan,  Tex.,  Oct. 
9,  1918:  sailed  Hoboken  May  15,  transport  Agamemnon; 
landed  Brest;  active  service  on  front  6  mos. ;  Amiens, 
Argonne  Woods,  Chippily  Ridge.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  28, 
1919. 

4.  MEREDITH,  CIIAS.   LESTER  1st  Cl.   Private 
Pana,  111.                                                          119   Inf.,  30  Div. 

Born  Tuly  19,  1894,  Odin,  111. ;  son  Nola  and  Frank  Mere- 
dith, Odin;  farmer:  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent 
C.  Taylor;  trf.  C.  Sevier,  S.  C.,  March  28,  1918;  sailed 
Boston  May  12:  attacked  by  submarine;  vessel  collided 
with  another  in  English  Channel ;  on  front  about  3  mos.; 
at  Ypres,  Bellicourt,  St.  Souplet,  with  119  Inf.  Dis.  C. 
Grant,  Apr.  14,  1919. 

5.  METZGER,  JOIIX  A.  Private 
Pana,   111.                                             26  Personnel  Hq.  Dept. 

Born  Apr.  2,  1896,  Pana;  son  Adam  G.  Metzgar;  farmer; 
enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C'.  Forrest,  Ga. ;  as 
signed  S  Engineers.  Dis.  C.  Forrest,  Jan.  4,  1919. 

6.  METZGAR,   ORVAL  C.  Private 
Pana,    111.                                                          Camp   Sevier,   S.   C. 

Born  1893.  Shelby  Co.;  son  Albert  G.  Metzgar,  Pana; 
farmer;  enl.  Feb.  23,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Taylor; 
trf.  about  March  25  to  C.  Sevier,  S.  C. ;  remained  there 
until  sent  to  C.  Taylor  for  discharge,  Apr.  5,  1919. 

7.  MIETZXER,  CIIAS.,  JR.  Private 
Stewardson,  111.                                           308  F.  A..  78  Div. 

Born  Oct.  26,  1889,  Stewardson ;  son  Wm.  C.  and  Eliza- 
beth Meitzner,  Stewardson;  enl.  Apr.  29,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville; sent  C.  Dix,  X.  I.;  assigned  308  F.  A.,  78  Div.; 
sailed  Xew  York  May  27,  1918;  landed  Liverpool;  fin- 
ished training  C.  De  Meucon,  France ;  active  duty  Aug. 
18  to  Xov.  11;  engagements  Meuse-Argonne,  St.  Mihiel 
offensive,  Suippe  Moselle,  Toul  sector,  Grand  Pre  offen- 
sive. Dis.  C.  Grant  May  27,  1919. 

8.  MILFORD,  LESLIE   E.  Corporal 
Herrick,  111.                                 52  Co.,   159   Depot   Brigade 

Farmer:  son  George  E.  and  Marietta  Milford;  married 
Dec.  26.  1918,  Mary  M.  Jones,  Herrick;  enl.,  Shelbyville, 
Feb.  22,  1918;  sent  C.  Taylor  and  assigned  18  Co.,  159 
I),  II.  :  made  C'pl.  March  1,  1918;  trf.  successively  to  39, 
52,  59  and  23  Companies,  159  I).  B. ;  duties  mainly  train- 
ing recruits.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  Dec.  5,  1918. 

9.  MILLER,  GEO.  W.  Master   Signal    Electrician 
Shelbyville,   111.  5    Aero   Squadron 

Son  Wm.  Miller,  Pana,  111. ;  married  Georgia  Stansberry, 
Shelbyville;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917;  sent  to  France  Feb.  8, 
1918;  served  with  signal  electrician  corps  of  5  Aero 
Squadron ;  active  service  on  Champagne  and  Chateau 
Thierry  fronts;  gassed  Champagne,  May  26,  1918.  Dis. 
C.  Grant  Feb.,  1919. 

10.  MILLER,  J.   GLEN  1st  Lieut.-Bn.  Adjt. 
Shelbyville,    111.  130    Inf.,   33    Div. 

Born  Shelbyville,  Aug.  23,  1888;  son  Mrs.  Eva  M.  Miller: 
abstractor;  enl.  March  23,  1908,  Co.  H,  4th  I.  X.  G. : 
Cpl.,  March  23,  1909;  Sgt.,  Feb.  9,  1910;  2nd  Lieut.,  Aug 

11.  1911;  1st  Lieut.,  May  20,  1913;  served  on  border,  1916: 
served  as   Bn.   Adjt.   with  2nd   Bn.,   130   Inf.,  in   France   al 
Amiens,  Somme  off.,  Albert,  Morlaincourt,  Meuse-Argonne. 
Bois   de    Chaume,    Verdun,    Troyon,    Marcheville,    Army    of 
Occupation,   Dec.    12  to  Apr.   12,   1919;   wounded,  !eft  arm. 
shell   fragment,  Meuse-Argonne,  Oct.  7  ;   received  divisional 
citation.     Dis.  with  130  Inf.,  C.  Grant.  June  1,  1919.     Firsl 
Post  Adjt.,   Roy   Vanderpool    Post,  American   Legion. 

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1.      MII.I.KK,   IAS.    K.  Private 

Tower  Hill,  111.  Co.  F,  25  Kngrs.,   1st  Army 

Knl.  Dec.  12,  1917,  Spokane,  Wash.;  assigned  Co.  F,  25 
Engineers;  sailed  Feb.  23,  1918;  first  under  fire  at  Aisne : 
from  Sept.  28  to  armistice  in  the  Argonne ;  6  mos.  con- 
struction of  warehouses  at  St.  Suplice.  Dis.  C.  Grant, 
Apr.  24,  1919. 

J.      MILLER,   LLOYD  0.  Private 

Shelhyville,    III.  Co.  F,   125   Inf.,  32   Div. 

Horn  1895;  son  C'has.  Miller,  Shelhyville:  farmer;  enl. 
him-  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Taylor,  54  Co.,  159 
1).  1!.;  trf.  C.  Heauregard,  La.,  July  17,  1918,  Co.  F,  154 
Inf.,  39  l)iv. ;  sailed  Newport  Xews,  Aug.  6,  1918;  landed 
Hrest,  Aug.  18;  battles  of  Verdun,  Fismes,  Meuse-Ar- 
gonne.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  20,  1919. 

3.      Mll.l.IGAX,   LIXDEK  First   Class   Private 

Tower  Hill,   III.  Halt,   B,   114  F.  A.,  30  Div. 

Horn  March  10,  1888,  Tower  Hill;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  lacob  Milligan.  Tower  Hill;  enl.  Oct.  2,  1917,  Shel- 
byville; assigned  Halt.  D,  327  F.  A.,  84  Div.,  C.  Taylor: 
trf.  C'.  Sevier,  Halt.  I!,  114  F.  A.,  30  Div.;  trained  8 
mos.;  sailed  Iloboken,  May  26,  1918;  under  fire  21/2  mos.; 
active  service  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse-Argonne,  Toul- Woevre. 
Dis.  C.  Grant,  Apr.  10,  1919. 


4.      MILLS.   CHARLES   E. 


Private 


Tower  Hill.  III.  66  F.  A. 

Horn  May  9,  1892,  Tower  Hill.;  son  of  Ed  Mills,  Tower 
Hill:  enl.  May  24,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  Jefferson  Bks. ; 
assigned  66  F.  A.  :  trf.  Camp  Kearney,  Cal.  ;  trained  8 
mos.  Dis.  Dec.  23,  1918,  C.  Grant. 

5.  MILLS,  ORA  Private   1st  Class 
Herrick,   111.  Co.   H.   130  Inf. 

Born  Dec.  17,  1895,  Herrick;  farmer;  son  Mr.  Daniel 
Mills,  Herrick;  enl.  Sept.  13,  1917,  Shelbyville,  Co.  H; 
sent  Camp  Logan,  Tex.,  Oct.  9,  1917;  trained  7  mos.; 
sailed  Iloboken,  X.  J.,  May  15,  1918;  active  service, 
Meuse-Argonne,  Somme,  Amiens,  Verdun,  Troyon.  Marchc- 
villc,  Army  of  Occupation.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  31,  1919. 

6.  MIXER,   CHARLES   LUFKIX  Corporal 
Shelbyville,    111.                                       Ry.  Transport  Corps 

Horn  Xpv.  9,  1891.  Windsor,  111.:  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
C'has.  Miner,  Windsor,  III.;  traveling  salesman;  enl.  Chi- 
cago, Nov.  28,  1917;  assigned  to  Camp  Johnston,  Fla. ; 
training  6  mos. ;  sailed  Newport  News,  June  2,  1918;  land- 
ed La  Pallice,  lune  20,  1918;  trf.  Ry.  Trans.  Corps  Jan. 

4,  1919;    promoted    Cpl.,    Feb.   9,    1919;    sailed    Hrest    Aug. 

6.  1919;    landed    X.    Y .,    Aug.     17,    1919.     Dis.    C.    Grant. 
Aug.   26,    1919. 

7.  MIXFK.    LESTER  WARD  1st  Lieut. 
Shelbyville,   111.                                                 38  Inf.,  3d  Div. 

Horn  Aug.  3,  1891  ;  son  Thomas  and  Minnie  Miner.  Shelby- 
ville; enl.  Aug.  27,  1917,  Ft.  Sheridan;  2nd  ().  T.  C., 
commissioned  1st  Lieut.,  Inf.,  Xov.  27,  1917;  assigned  38 
Inf..  3  Div.,  C'.  Greene,  S.  C. ;  sailed  Halifax,  Canada, 
March  22,  1918:  battles  of  Aisne-Marne  defensive.  Cham- 
pagne-Marne  defensive,  Chateau-Thierry  sector.  May  30- 
Jnly  15,  1918:  high  explosive  wound,  face  and  upper  right 
arm,  2d  battle  of  Marne,  July  15,  1918;  Hase  Hospital  Xo. 
34,  Xantes,  France,  seven  weeks;  C,  O.  1st  Prov.  Gd.  Co.; 

5.  O.    116    Tr.    Ht|.    and    M.    P.    1st    Replacement    Depot; 
A.    P.    M.,   Montrichard,    Pontlevoy,   St.   George;   instructor 
agriculture,     A.     E.     F.     University,     Heaume,     Cote     D'or ; 
agricultural    lecturer    3d    Army,    Coblenz.      Dis.    C.    Grant, 
Aug.    15,    1919. 


Signal  Q.    M- 
U.  S.  Navy 
navy;    sent    Great 


8.  MITCHELL,   DOXALD  J. 
Cowden,   III. 

Enl.  Oct.  28.  1915,  Des  Moines,  la., 
Lakes;  assigned  to  U.  S.  S.  San  Francisco,  mine  layer; 
in  Cuba  during  revolution  of  1917,  guarding  Santiago; 
trf.  to  "Haltimore"  as  Staff  Signalman;  trf.  to  "Pres. 
Grant"  as  Signal  Q.  M. ;  trf.  "Wadsworth";  sent  Queens- 
town.  Ireland,  May  4,  1917;  20  months  active  service; 
wounded  at  Metz;  returned  Jan.  8,  1919. 

9.  MITTEXDORF,  LOUIS  J.  Private 
Xeoga,  III.                                                           A.  R.  D.  319 

Enl.  lune  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Aux.  Remount 
I'epot  319,  Camp  Taylor,"  Ky.  Dis.  May  17,  1919,  C. 
Taylor,  Ky. 

10.  MOHERI.EV,  GRIDER  II.  Private 
Shelbyville,   III.                                           liatt.  I),  327  F.  A. 

Horn  Nov.  11,  1895,  Windsor;  grain  dealer;  son  Fred 
Moberley,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  Halt.  I),  327  F.  A.,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky. ;  trf.  West 
Point;  sailed  New  York  Sept.  8,  1918,  on  Orduna ;  trained 
Camp  De  Souge,  Fr.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Feb.  19,  1919. 

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1.  MOBEKI.EY,   LAWRENCE   M.  Private 
Windsor,   III.                                                     1    Marines  A.   F. 

Horn  June  2,  1897,  Windsor;  postal  clerk;  son  Mr.  B.  F. 
Moherley,  Windsor;  enl.  Jan.  2,  1918,  St.  Louis,  in  Marine 
corps;  assigned  1st  Marines  Aviation  Force,  Paris  Island, 
S.  C. ;  trf.  to  Curtis  Field,  1st  M.  A.  F. ;  trained  3  mos. ; 
sailed  Ilohoken  July  18,  1918,  on  "lie  Kalb" ;  sank  sub- 
marine on  way  over;  trained  Bois  En  Ardres;  served  4 
mi.  behind  trenches.  Released  Miami,  Fla.,  Feb.  20,  1919; 
one  brother  in  service. 

2.  MOXROK.   HENRY   EVKRETT  Captain,    M.    C. 
Shclhyvillc,   111.                      I.  C.  0.  T.  S.,  C.  Grant,  111. 

Horn  July  15,  1875,  Falmouth,  Ky. ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H. 
F.  Monroe,  Falmouth,  Ky.  ;  married  June  4,  1902,  Irma  E. 
Tackett.  daughter  Jno.  A.  and  Mrs.  Flora  C.  Tackett, 
Shelby  ville ;  one  daughter,  Florence  Rachael,  one  son, 
Henry  Tackett;  enl.  Aug.,  1918,  Springfield,  111.;  Medical 
Corps  :  assigned  as  Surgeon  Infantry  Central  Officers 
Training  School,  C.  Grant;  com.  Capt.  M.  C.,  Sept.  11, 
1918;  on  Dec.  18,  was  reassigned  to  5th  Bn.,  discharge 
unit,  C.  Grant,  as  surgeon  of  same.  Dis.  March  5,  1919, 
C.  Grant. 

3.  MONTOOTH,  ARNOLD   E.  Corporal 
Cowden,    111.                                     Co.   H,   130   Inf.,  33   Div. 

Born  May  2,  1894,  Cowden;  son  Scott  Montooth;  farmer; 
enl.  July  24,  1917,  Shelbyville.  in  Co.  II,  130  Inf.,  33 
Div.;  promoted  Cpl. ;  sailed  Hoboken  May  16,  1918; 
landed  May  24,  Brest;  in  trenches  Aug.  8-.\"ov.  11,  1918; 
at  Argonne-Meuse,  Somme,  St.  Mihiel,  Argonne,  Marche- 
ville.  Dis.  C'.  Grant,  May  30,  1919. 

4.  MOON,  DR.  GEO.  1st   Lieut. 
Ilerrick,    111.                                                    Veterinary   Corps 

Born  July  17,  1886,  Herrick ;  son  T.  T.  Moon;  married 
Dec.  10/1914,  Alice  E.  Gill,  dau.  Mrs.  W.  F.  Gill; 
veterinarian;  enl.  July  25,  1917,  Leavenworth,  Kans.  ;  as- 
signed Purchasing  O.  M.  (horses),  Kansas  City,  Mo.;  trf. 
May  5,  1918,  C.  Dodge,  338th  F.  A.,  88  Div.;  com.  2nd 
Lt.,  Aug.  15,  1917;  1st  Lt.,  July  17,  1918;  vet.  service  at 
C.  Dodge;  sailed  Aug.  17,  1918;  in  training  at  De  Souge ; 
returned  with  Vet.  Evac.  IIosp.  No.  8.  Dis.  Ft.  D.  A. 
Russel,  Wyo.,  June  23,  1919. 

5.  MOON,   TAMES   BURL  Private 
Ilerrick,   111.                                                 161   Depot  Brigade 

Born  Tune  7,  1893,  Ilerrick;  son  T.  J.  Moon;  farmer:  enl. 
Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  161  I).  B.,  Camp 
Custer,  Mich.;  trf.  Sept.  19,  C.  Grant;  2  mos.  in  non-com, 
school  at  Grant.  Dis.  Jan.  25,  1919;  one  brother  in  service. 

6.  MOORE,   TAMES  C.  Private 
Ilerrick,    ll'l.                                               Co.   E,   52  Inf.,  6  Div. 

Born  Oct.  24,  1895,  Cowden;  son  J.  B.  Moore;  farmer; 
enl.  Tune  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  54th  Co.,  159 
Depot  I!.,  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  Co.  E,  154  Inf.,  39  Div., 
Camp  Beaureguard  ;  in  training  5  weeks ;  sailed  Newport 
News,  Aug.  6,  1918;  landed  Brest  Aug.  18,  1918;  trf.  to 
C'o.  E,  52  Inf.,  6  Div.;  in  trenches  3  weeks;  at  Alsace 
Lorraine,  one  skirmish,  in  Argonne  about  Nov.  8th ;  in 
hospital,  pneumonia.  Dis.  Gen.  Hospital  No.  42,  Spartan- 
burg,  S.  C.,  April  15,  1919. 

7.  MOORE,   LOREN   BRUCE  Cook 
Shelbyville,   111.                                        Base   Hosp.    No.    131 

Born  Aug.  13,  1897,  Wayne  City;  son  Frank  Moore,  Shel- 
byville; real  estate;  enl.  May  28,  1918,  Jefferson  Bks., 
Mo.;  assigned  Base  Hospital  No.  131;  trf.  C.  L'pton, 
promoted  to  cook,  Oct.  5,  1918;  sailed  Oct.  12th;  landed 
Liverpool  Oct.  24,  1918;  went  to  Cherbourg,  France,  from 
there  to  Mars  Sur  Alliers,  permanent  camp  until  return ; 
sailed  May  23,  1919;  arr.  N.  V.  June  2nd.  Dis.  June  12, 
1919,  C".  Grant. 

8.  MORGAN.  SIDNEY  Mechanic 
Tower  Hill,  111.                                Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Born  Tan.  18,  1897,  Tower  Hill;  son  O.  Morgan;  farmer; 
enl.  Sept.  3,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf.;  pro- 
moted to  Mechanic,  C.  Logan,  Jan.  1,  1918;  in"  training 
7  mos.;  sailed  May  16,  1918;  transport  Agamemnon; 
landed  Brest  May  24 ;  in  trenches  3  mos. ;  at  Meuse- 
Argonne,  Somme,  Amiens  sector,  Troyon  sector,  Army  of 
Occupation;  mention  on  Roll  of  Honor  of  the  33  Div. 
Dis.  C.  Grant  May  30,  1919. 

9.  MORRELL,  THEODORE  1st  Cl.  Private 
Moweaqua,  111.               159  F.  A.,  Brigade  Hqs.,  84  Div. 

Enl.  Sept.  5,  1917;  sent  C.  Taylor;  sailed  Sept.  8,  1918;  in 
active  service  3  weeks;  never  wounded.  Dis.  March  1, 

1919. 

10.  MOWRY,  LESTER  Corporal 
Findlay,   111.                                         302  Water  Tank  Train 

Horn  April  2,  1896,  Oakley,  111.;  son  Henry  C.  and  Hattie 
Mowry,  Findlay;  farmer;  enl.  June  14,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
sent  Rahe  Auto  School.  Kansas  City;  assigned  M.  T.  C. 
302;  sailed  Hoboken,  Sept.  28,  1918;  transport  Leviathan; 
landed  Brest,  Oct.  7:  Meuse-Argonne  front;  truck  driver. 
Dis.  C.  Grant,  Aug.  5,  1919. 

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MII.LKR,  ORAX  Shclhyville,   111. 

Son    Bud   Miller:   served  in   Q.   M.   Corps  on  Texas  border 
during  period   of   the   war. 


MOORE,  XOBLE 
Herrick,   111. 


Private 

46  Co.,  160  1).  1'.. 
lull.  Shelbyville.  Sept.  5;  sent  to  C.  Custer  ;  assigned  to 
•46  Co.,  160  Depot  Brigade;  served  through  enlistment  with 
this  outlit.  Dis.  soon  after  armistice. 

1.      MORRIS,  CLAREXCE  X.  Sergeant 

Beecher  City,  III.  Co.  II,  3-14   M.  (..   I'.n. 

Kill.  Oct.,  1917;  sent  San  Antonio,  Tex.;  remained  C. 
Travis,  San  Antonio,  until  June,  1918;  sent  overseas; 
over  top  Sept.  12;  in  St.  Mihiel  drive;  in  battle  72  days; 
at  front  when  armistice  was  signed  ;  sent  into  Germany 
with  Army  of  Occupation. 


1st  Sergeant 
Co.  A,  6  A.  A.   M.   C,.   tin. 


2.  MORRIS,   SAMUEL   1 
Beecher   City,    111. 

Enl.  Chicago.  Aug.  28,  1918;  sent  to  Spartanburg,  S.  C., 
C'.  Wadsworth ;  in  camp  4l/i  mos.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Jan. 
10,  1919. 

3.  MOSK.    LEWIS  R.  Private 
Tower  Hill,    III.                                          34   Regt.,  C.   A.   C. 

Horn  Dec.  24,  1889,  Shelby  Co.;  farmer;  son  Geo.  W. 
and  Abbie  A.  Mose,  Tower  Hill;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville;  sent  C.  Custer;  trf.  34  Regt.,  C.  A.  C.,  Ft.  Totten. 
X.  Y.  ;  trf.  C.  Kustis,  Va.,  Xov.  5;  in  training  4  mos. 
His.  C.  Grant  Dec.  28,  1918. 

4.  MOSE,   RAVMOXI)  F.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                                                     147   Engineers 

Born  Feb.  16,  1897,  Tower  Hill;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
VV.  Mose;  elk.  C.  &  E.  I.  R.  R. ;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville; sent  C.  Custer;  assigned  45  Co.,  12  Bn.,  HO  D.  B.; 
trf.  Ft.  Benjamin  Harrison,  147  Engineers.  Dis.  Dec.  14, 

1918,  Ft.    Benjamin    Harrison. 

MOSE,  ROLI.IE   EDGAR  Private 

Assumption.   111.  45   Co.,   160  Depot  Brigade 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Jan.  10,  1918;  sent  to  Ft.  Oglethorpe ; 
assigned  to  limited  service  and  trf.  to  45  Co.,  160  Depot 
I'.rigade,  C.  Custer.  Dis.  Dec.  1,  1918. 

5.  MOSS,  CHAS.  A.  1st  Lieut. 
Moweaqua,  111.                                  Co.  C,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Horn  May  21,  1893,  Moweaqua;  son  Wm.  II.  Moss,  Mo- 
weaqua; enl.  June  26,  1916,  Sullivan,  Co.  C,  4  Regt.. 
I.  X.  G. ;  promoted  Cpl.,  then  Sgt. ;  commissioned  2nd 
Lieut.,  Aug.  13,  1918;  sent  C.  Logan,  Oct.,  1917;  sailed 
Hoboken  May  10,  1918,  transport  Covington :  in  active 
service  on  front  May  25-Oct.  6,  1918;  Somme  offensive, 
Corbe-Fouilli.  Albert,  Meuse,  Argonne ;  shrapnel  wound  in 
hip;  commissioned  1st  Lieut.,  Sept.  1,  1918,  at  Argonne; 
gassed,  mustard  gas;  returned  U.  S.  casual.  Dis.  C. 
Grant,  June  3,  1919. 

6.  MOSS,  XELSOX  W.  Private 
Moweaqua,  111.                          Co.  D,  8  Bn.,  U.  S.  Guards 

Born  March  11,  1891,  Moweaqua;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
William  H.  Moss,  Moweaqua;  farmer;  enl.  Feb.  28,  1918: 
sent  C.  Taylor,  Ky. ;  assigned  Co.  D,  8  Bn.,  U.  S.  Guards; 
trf.  Springfield,  Mass.  ;  denied  overseas  service  account 
disability.  Dis.  Dec.  28,  1918. 

7.  MUELLER,  HEXRY  G.  Private   1st  Cl. 
Stewardson,  III.                                           150th  Inf.,  38  Div. 

Enl.  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Co.  H,  150th 
Inf.,  38th  Div.,  Camp  Shelby,  Miss. ;  sailed  for  France 
Oct.  6,  1918;  overseas  10  months.  Dis.  Aug.  11,  1919,  C. 
Grant. 

8.  MUELLER,   MARTIX  Private  1st  Cl. 
Strasburg,  111.                              45  Co.,   12  Bat.,   160  D.  B. 

Born  June  16,  1894,  near  Strasburg;  son  of  Louis  and 
Dorothy  Mueller,  Strasburg;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  assigned  Bugler  45  Co.,  12  Bat.,  160  D.  B. 
Dis.  Dec.  11,  1918,  C.  Custer. 

9.  MUELLER,  WM.,  JR.  Private 
Strasburg,  111.                                Artillery  Ammunition  TV. 

Born  Nov.  24,  1891,  Strasburg:  son  of  Wm.  and  Mary 
Mueller,  Strasburg;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville; Camp  Taylor,  artillery  ammunition  train;  trf.  to  C. 
VcClellan,  9th  Amm.  Train.  Dis.  Feb.  26,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

10.  MUNCEY,  ROSS  Private 
Tower  Hill,  111.                                Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Born  1898,  Shelby  Co.;  son  of  Hiram  L.  and  Laura  Mun- 
cey,  Tower  Hill;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  17,  1917,  Shelbyville, 
with  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.;  went  to  Camp  Logan  Oct. 
9,  1918;  sailed  May  16,  1918;  landed  Brest  May  24,  1918; 
94  days  in  trenches,  Meuse- Argonne  offensive,  Somme  sec- 
tor, Troyon  sector;  returned  with  33rd  Div.  Dis.  May  31, 

1919,  C.  Grant. 

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1.  MULI.IXIX,  VURN  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                             .    Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Horn  Sept.  11,  1897,  Shelbyville;  son  of  Mrs.  Jane  Young, 
St.  Louis,  Mo.;  paper  hanger;  enl.  July  25,  1917,  Shelby- 
ville. with  Co.  H;  sailed  from  Hoboken  May  15,  1918; 
landed  Brest  May  24,  1918;  Somme  sector,  Meuse-Ar- 
gonne :  Troyon  sector  and  Army  of  Occupation ;  returned 
witli  Co.  II  and  was  discharged  May  31,  1919,  C.  Grant. 
Married  Zelma  Franklin,  Ian.  29,  1918,  at  Sullivan. 

2.  Mcr.KIDK,   1)A\   TAMKS  Yeoman   2nd   C. 
Shelbyville,    III.  I".    S.    Navy 

Horn  Nov.  29.  1X96,  W.  Salem;  son  Ed.  McHride,  Shelby- 
vilk-;  ry.  clerk;  enl.  May  28,  1918,  Chicago;  navy.  Seaman 
Branch;  promoted  from  Seaman  2nd  C.  to  Yt-oman  3rd  C., 
Nov.  1.  1918:  promoted  to  Yeoman  2nd  C.,  Feb.  1,  1919; 
sailed  July  15,  1918,  I".  S.  S.  .Northern  Pacific:  landed 
Brest  July  22.  1918;  in  charge  of  supplying  17  Naval 
Aviation  Stations  in  France  with  gasoline  and  oil.  I>is. 
luiu-  15.  1919,  Great  Lakes,  111.  One  brother  in  service. 

3.  McBKIDE,    KDDI1-:  Shelbyville,   III. 
lirothcr  of  Dan:  ry.  clerk;  enl.  at  Chicago,  Nov.   17,  1917; 
assigned    22d     Engineers ;    sailed    March    30,    1918;    at    Ar- 
gonne,  St.   -Mihiel.     His.  C.  Grant  summer  of  1919. 

4.  McBROOM.  ALBERT  Private 
I'ana.    111.                                               130   Inf.,   33    Div.,   Co.   II 

Horn  Dec.  23,  1897,  Pana ;  son  Sam  and  Flavia  McBroom, 
Pana:  laborer;  enl.  August  20,  1917,  Shelbyville;  with  Co. 
H;  sailed  from  Hoboken  May  15,  1918,  on  transport 
Agamemnon:  Meuse-Argonne,  Somme,  Albert.  Dis.  Tune, 
1919,  C.  Grant. 

5.  McCLORY,  GUY  T.  Private.   1st  Cl. 
Trowbridge,   III.                                                22nd    Engineers 

P.orn  Aug.  22,  1894,  Trowbridge;  son  of  Michael  IX  and 
Anna  McClorv,  Trowbridge:  teacher  and  farmer;  enl.  Tune 
27,  191S.  Shelbyville;  sent  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  22d  Engrs., 
Ft.  lienj.  Harrison,  July  19;  trf.  to  Upton,  X.  Y. ;  sailed 
from  Montreal,  Can.,  Aug.  22,  1918;  landed  Liverpool, 
Sept.  16;  did  carpenter  work.  Dis.  July  9,  1919,  C.  Mills. 
N.  Y. 

McCLORY.  RKG1S   K.  Private 

Trowbridge,    111.  473   Aero   Sqdn. 

Horn  Nov.  16.  1893,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  son  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  McClory,  Trowbridge;  teacher;  enl.  Aug.  19, 
1917,  Mattoon,  111.;  aviation;  assigned  473  Aero  Construc- 
tion Sqdn.,  Kelly  Field,  Texas;  sailed  from  Morrison,  Va., 
Dec.,  1917,  on  transport  Mallory  ;  landed  Brest,  Jan.,  1918; 

fuarded  German  prisoners  and  constructed  barracks.     Dis. 
>ec.  28,  1918,  C.  Grant. 

6.  McCOY,   ESTER  E.  Private 
Middlesworth.  111.                                                       15th  D.  11. 

Horn  Feb.  14,  1893,  Shelby  Co.,  111.;  son  of  William  and 
Julia  McCoy;  farmer;  enl.  June  26,  1918,  Shelbyville: 
assigned  to  159th  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Taylor;  sailed 
from  Newport  News  Aug.  6,  1918:  landed  Brest  August 
19;  Alsace-Lorraine  and  Verdun.  Dis.  June  23,  C.  Grant. 


Sergeant 
5th  Marines,  47  Co. 


7.  McCOY,  GUY 
Xokomis,  111. 

Son  of  Mrs.  Xorah  B.  McCoy ;  enl.  St.  Louis  shortly  after 
war  declared ;  sailed  May  26  as  replacement ;  assigned  5th 
Marines  of  2nd  Div.;  Soissons,  Chateau  Thierry;  wounded 
St.  Mihiel,  shrapnel,  gassed  in  Argonne  in  October;  re- 
turned as  casual.  Dis.  in  March,  1919. 

8.  McCOY,  JOHN  A.  Corporal 
Shelbyville,  III.                      Hdq.  Co.,  308  F.  A..  78  Div. 

Born  March  9,  1896,  Ramsey,  111.;  son  of  Xora  B.  McCoy, 
Shelbyville;  enl.  April  30,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Hdq. 
Co.,  308  F.  A..  7S  Div.:  promoted  Cpl.,  in  France,  April 
10,  1919:  sailed  from  X.  Y.  May  26,  1918,  on  transport 
Cedric;  landed  Liverpool  June  8',  1918;  St.  Mihiel.  Ar- 
gonne, Suippe,  Grand  Pre.  Dis.  May  14,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

9.  McDAXIEL,  CLAREXCE  Private,   1st  Cl. 
Shelbyville,   111.                                            12   Artillery   Brigade 

Horn  Nov.  11,  1894,  Casey,  III.;  son  of  Orion  and  May 
McDaniel,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Slu-lby- 
ville;  assigned  Camp  Taylor,  53  Co.,  159  D.  B. ;  trf.  to 
Camp  McClellan,  Ala.,  12  Brig.,  Motorized  Artillery. 
Dis.  Jan.  27,  1919,  C.  McClellan.  Ala. 

10.  McGEE,  ROGER  W.  Sergeant 
Moweaqua,  111.                                               Co.   D,  2d  Engrs. 

Born  Feb.  7,  1896,  Blue  Mound,  111.;  son  Mrs.  Eliza  J. 
McGee,  Moweaqua;  electrician;  enl.  May  18,  1917,  Deca- 
tur;  assigned  Co.  D,  2d  Engrs.;  promoted'  Sgt.,  June,  1919; 
trf.  Jefferson  Bks.,  to  El  Paso,  Tex.;  sailed  Sept.  10,  1917; 
landed  Glasgow,  Scotland  ;  direct  from  there  to  Le  Havre, 
France,  Nov.  11;  Verdun,  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse-Argonne, 
Champagne.  Toulon,  Aisne,  Chateau  Thierry,  Aisne-Marne, 
Soissons;  miscellaneous  engineer;  returned  with  2d  Engrs. 
Dis.  Aug.  15;  1919,  C.  Grant. 

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1.      McIXTIRE,  FRANK  Moweaqua,   111. 

Aviation,   Section  2,   Long  Island. 

McKIXXEY,  EMERY  Mowea.iua,  111. 


Corporal 
6th  Trench  Mortar  Bn. 


2.     McKITTRICK,  CHAS.  C. 

Ilerrick,  III. 

Horn  July  11,  1884,  Cold  Spring  Twp. ;  son  Wm.  McKit- 
trick,  Pana ;  farmer;  enl.  May  29,  1918,  Decatur;  assigned 
2nd  C'o.  Coast  Artillery  ;  trf.  6th  Trench  Mortar  Bn.,  Hat. 
It;  promoted  Cpl.,  Sept.  27,  Ft.  Caswell,  X.  C. ;  sailed 
from  llohoken  Xov.  2,  1918;  landed  Brest  Xov.  9,  two 
days  before  armistice  was  signed  ;  returned  with  6th  Trench 
Mortar  Hn.  Dis.  Feh.  1,  1919,  C.  Grant. 


McKITTRICK.  CEO.  G. 

Tower   Hill,    III. 

In   service  in   United  States  Xavy. 


3.  McMAHAX,  RALPH  THEORAX  Private 
Cowden,   111.                                         82  Div.,  327  Amb.   Co. 

Horn  Oct.  10,  1898,  Shelbyville;  son  of  Jas.  and  Lulu 
McMahan,  Cowden,  111.;  lineman;  enl.  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind. ; 
assigned  to  82  Div.,  327  Ambulance  Co.,  307  San.  Train, 
Kt.  lienj.  Harrison;  sailed  from  a  Xew  Jersey  port  in 
July,  1918;  landed  Liverpool  July  28;  in  trenches  from 
August  to  Xov.;  Marbash,  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse,  Argonne. 
Dis.  May  23,  1919,  C.  Sherman,  Ohio. 

4.  McMULLIX,  FOSTER  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                Co.  H.   130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Horn  Sept.  9,  1892,  Lake  City,  III.;  farmer;  enl.  May  8, 
1917,  with  Co.  H;  went  to  Camp  Logan  Oct.  9,  1918; 
sailed  May  15,  1918;  69  days  on  firing  line;  Meuse-Ar- 
gonne,  Somme,  Albert.  Dis.  June,  1919,  C.  Grant. 


McNTTT,  ALSEY 

Shelbyville,    111. 

In   service  with  26th    Engineers. 


26    Engrs. 


5.      XAXCE,  JASPER  W.  Sergeant,   1st  Cl.,  Q.  M.  C. 

Herrick,  111.  Cooks  and  Bakers  School 

Horn  Mar  28,  1895,  Ilerrick,  111.;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Newt.  W.  Nance,  Herrick;  enl.  lune  27,  1918,  Shel- 
byville; assigned  D.  H.  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.  ;  trf.  Upton, 
X.  Y.,  Cooks  and  Bakers  School;  trained  12^  mos.  Dis. 
C.  Grant,  July  16,  1919. 


6       NANCE.   MERRITT 

Herrick,  111. 

Born  July  25,  1894,  Ilerrick 
Ervin  Nance,  Herrick;  enl. 
assigned  Bn.  Hq.  308  F.  A., 


1st  Cl.   Private 
Bn.  Ilq.,  308  F.  A.,  78  Div. 
;    farmer;    son    Mr.   and   Mrs. 
Apr.    30,    1918,    Shelbyville; 
78   Biv.,   Camp   Dix  ;    trained 
" 


.  .       . 

3  weeks;  sailed  Hoboken  May  24,  1918,  on  "Cedric"  ; 
under  lire  3  mos.;  active  service  St.  Mihiel,  Argonne,  T'oul, 
Souppe,  Meuse.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  28,  1919.  One 
brother  in  service. 

7.  XAYIS,   RALPH   E.  Private 
Stewardson,  111.                            Motor  Truck  Repair  Unit 

Born  Mar.  12,  1895,  Herborn,  111.;  farmer;  son  Mrs. 
Minnie  Maxson,  Peoria  ;  enl.  Sept.  3,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
sent  Camp  Grant,  Co.  II,  5  Training  Regiment,  161  D.  B.  ; 
trf.  Camp  Holabird,  Md.,  M.  T.  R.  U.  ;  trained  6  mos. 
Dis.  C'.  Taylor,  Feb.  28,  1919. 

8.  NEAL,  CHARLES  M.  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                        Batt.  D,  327  F.  A..  84  Div. 

Born  Sept.  5,  1894,  Shelbyville;  painter;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hiram  Neal.  Shelbyville;  enl.  Oct.  2,  1917,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  Batt.  D,  327  F.  A.,  84  Div.,  Camp  Taylor.  Dis. 
Camp  Taylor  Xov.  19,  1917,  on  account  of  physical  dis- 
ability ;  went  to  Chanute,  Kan.  ;  enlisted  in  new  Co.  of 
K.  X.  G.  ;  Govt.  guard  at  Nitro,  W.  Va.  ;  one  brother  in 


Corporal 
Co.  H,  130  Inf..  33  Div. 


9.  XEAL,  FRAXK  X. 

Shelbyville,  111. 
Born  Aug.  12,  1893,  Shelbyville:  son  Hiram  and  Emma 
Neal;  miner;  enl.  June  5,  1917,  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.; 
promoted  Cpl.,  Camp  Logan,  fall,  1917;  trained  for  sniper 
10  mos.;  sailed  May  16,  1918;  landed  Brest  May  J4th ; 
brigaded  with  British  on  Albert  front;  wounded  by  ex- 
plosion of  bomb  thrown  by  Germans,  31  killed  and  wound- 
ed, sent  to  Gen.  Hosp.  Xo.  16;  returned  Co.  H,  Xov.  9 
returned  to  Hosp.  Nov.  17  for  operation;  returned  Co.  H 
in  Dec.,  in  Luxemburg;  returned  U.  S.  and  discharged 
with  Co.  H.  Mother  received  report  he  was  dead  and 
missing  in  action. 

10.  NEES,  JOHX  WILLIAM  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                        Bradley  Poly.  Co.  B 

Born  Oct.  25,  1896;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jacob  Xees.  Shelby- 
ville; expressman;  enl.  Oct.  15.  1918,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed to  Co.  B,  Bradley  Poly.,  Peoria,  111.;  in  training 
3  weeks  for  gunsmith;  rejected  Xov.  7,  1918,  and  dis- 
charged at  Peoria  on  physical  grounds. 

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1.  NEW  BERRY,  VERNIE  E.  Private 
Stewardson,  111.                                               125  Inf.,  32  Div. 

Born  Aug.  27,  1895,  Stewardson ;  son  Amos  Newberry, 
Stewardson;  farmer;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville ;  as- 
signed Depot  Brig.,  C.  Taylor;  trf.  C.  Beaureguard,  Co. 
F.  154  Reg.,  39  Div.;  trf.  in  France  to  125  Inf.,  32  Div.; 
sailed  Aug.  6,  1918;  landed  Brest  Aug.  18,  1918;  in  train- 
ing  at  Ouincy,  Fr. ;  in  trenches  3  weeks;  at  Argonne 
Forest;  wounded  Aug.  11,  shot  through  foot;  in  hospital 
l'/2  mos.  ;  returned  Casual  Co.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Mch  24. 

2.  NICHOLS,  CHAS.  O. 
Mode.    111. 

Born  1884,  Shelby  Co. ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  E.  Nichols, 
Mode;  farmer;  enl.  Jeff.  Bks.,  March  17,  1915;  served  in 
Hawaiian  Islands;  returned  U.  S.  April,  1919.  Dis.  April 
23,  1919;  re-enlisted  April  23,  1919,  for  overseas  service; 
sailed  Hoboken  June  13,  1919. 

NICHOLS,   HARRY   L.  Windsor,   111. 

3.  NICHOLS,  WILLIS  EDGAR  Sergeant 
Mode,   111.                                                        Co.   A,  9th   Infantry 

Born  Feb.  25,  1892,  Mode;  son  A.  E.  Nichols;  farmer; 
enl.  July  2,  1915,  Jeff.  Bks.,  Mo.;  assigned  Co.  A,  9th 
Inf.,  Laredo,  Tex.;  made  Cpl.,  lune  1,  1917;  Sgt.,  in  Fr., 
Aug.  27,  1918;  sailed  May  8,  19"l8;  landed  May  _23,  Brest; 
in  trenches  60  days;  at  Marne,  Vesle  River,  St.  Mihiel, 
Argonne  Forest;  in  hospital,  gun  shot  wound  left  hand  at 
Argonne  Forest;  reg.  received  2  citations  for  bravery; 
assigned  Prisoner  of  War  Escort  Co.  103  at  Blots;  re- 
lieved in  one  mo.;  returned  as  casual,  Feb.  2,  1919. 

4.  NICHOLS,   KARL  W.  Wagoner 
Oconee,   111.                           Evacuation  Ambulance   Co.   67 

Born  Aug.  29,  1893,  Litchfield,  111. ;  son  Mrs.  Dora  Nich- 
ols, Oconee;  married  Sept.  23,  1914,  to  Bertha  Christner, 
dau.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David  C. ;  bank  elk.;  enl.  Aug.  14, 
1918,  Shelbyville;  army;  assigned  Lewis  Inst.  Tr.  I)etc.h.. 
Chicago ;  hospital  5  weeks,  severe  burns  from  gas  engine 
explosion;  trf.  Oct.  15  to  Eyac.  Amb.  No.  67,  C.  Crane; 
promoted  to  wagoner ;  in  training  3  mos. ;  sailed  Hoboken 
Nov.  13,  transport  Cedric ;  Liverpool  Nov.  23;  La  Havre 
Nov.  25  ;  worked  as  amb.  driver,  stationed  most  of  time ; 
hospital  28  days,  mumps;  returned  with  Casual  Co.  Dis. 
C.  Grant  June  7,  1919. 

5.  NICHOLS,  ROBT.   E.  Private 
Cowden,    111.                                           Med.    Dept.   Air   Service 

Born  July  14,  1887,  Cowden;  son  G.  F.  Nichols.  Herrick ; 
mechanic;  enl.  Ian.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Med. 
Dept.,  Air  Service,  Ft.  Oglethorpe ;  trf.  Feb.  10,  1918, 
Kelly  Field;  trf.  Apr.  9,  1918,  Ellington  Field,  Tex.; 
worked  in  hospital  during  influenza  and  pneumonia  epi- 
demic; in  training  19  mos.  Dis.  July  5,  1919,  Ellington 
Field,  Tex. 

6.  NIPPE,  MARTIN  J.  Private 
Strasburg,   111.                                             34  Reg..   14th  Div. 

Born  Nov.  23,  1892,  Strasburg;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chas. 
Nippe  ;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Sheltn  -ville ;  army;  as- 
signed to  C.  Custer,  Depot  Brig.;  trf.  Nov.  1,  1918,  to  C. 
Eustis,  to  34  Reg.,  14  Div.;  trf.  to  C.  Grant,  Dec.  17, 
1918;  in  training  \l/i  mos.;  in  hospital,  influenza.  Dis.  C. 
Grant,  Jan.  23,  1919. 

NOLING,  RAYMOND 

Moweaqua,   111.  29th   R.  II.   Det. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  5,  1918;  sent  to  C.  Custer;  trfd. 
to  29  R.  H.  Det.,  Camp  Johnston,  Fla. 

XOLTNG.  RICHARD  N. 

Moweaqua,  111.  29  R.  H.   Det. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  5,  1918;  sent  to  Camp  Custer;  trfd. 
to  29  R.  H.  Det.,  Camp  Johnston,  Fla. 

7.  NORBERG,  WALTER  E.  Sergeant 
Stewardson,  111.                                                       Q.  M.  Corps 

Born  May  31,  1888,  Chicago;  son  Louis  and  Margreta 
Norberg;  farmer;  enl.  Oct.  2,  1917,  Shelbyville;  sent  C. 
Taylor,  assigned  327  F.  A.;  trf.  C.  Pike,  Ark.,  Nov.  16, 
1917;  trf.  March  25,  1918,  to  Brooklyn;  trf.  Aug.  20  to 
Syracuse;  promoted  Sgt.,  Aug.  26;  promoted  Supply  Sgt., 
O.  M.  C.  ;  trf.  Camp  Mills,  Aug.  26,  1918.  Dis.  C.  Grant, 
Jan.  24,  1919. 

8.  NORRIS,  RALPH  A.  Seaman 
Ashmore,  111.                                                             U.  S.  Navy 

Born  at  Patoka ;  son  Mrs.  E.  M.  Norris,  formerly  of  Stras- 
burg; enl.  in  Navy  June  10,  1918;  sent  to  Great  Lakes; 
trf.  first  of  Sept.  to  Navy  Yards  at  Philadelphia ;  trf.  in 
Jan.  to  U.  S.  S.  Pocahontas,  engaged  in  bringing  home 
troops. 

9.  NUTT,  HAROLD  Cook 
Shelbyville,  111.                                Co.  H,   130   Inf.,  33  Div. 

Born  May  20,  1898,  Shelbyville;  son  Isaac  and  Margaret 
Nutt,  Shelbyville;  enl.  July,  1917,  Shelbyville,  Co.  H,  130 
Inf.,  sent  C.  Logan,  Oct.  9;  sailed  May  15,  1918,  Hoboken, 
transport  .Agamemnon ;  served  in  France  all  way  through 
with  Co.  H.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  June,  1919. 

10.  O'BRIEN,  ROY  Musician 
Shelbyville,    111.                                               327   F.   A..   *4    Div. 

Specially  inducted  in  May,  1918,  at  Camp  Taylor  and 
assigned  to  327  F.  A.  Regimental  band.  Dis.  in  February, 
1919. 

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Moweaqua,  111. 


1.  OLMSTEAD,  CARL  D.  2d  Lieut. 
Finillay,  III.                                                            36th  Division 

Horn  Oct.  15,  1894,  Findlay,  111.;  son  Fred  and  Emma 
(Hmstead,  Findlay;  electrician;  enl.  Aug.  5,  1917,  Shelby- 
ville,  with  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  4th  III.  Keg.;  Cpl.  Sept.  'l , 
1917;  Sgt.,  Dec.  1,  1917;  Supply  Sgt..  June,  1918;  2d 
Lieut.,  Apr.  8,  1919;  trf.  from  C.  Logan  to  C.  Stanley, 
0.  T.  C'.  Rep.  Div.,  Jan.  9,  1918,  then  to  Co.  H,  130  Inf., 
April  1,  1918:  sailed  Hoboken  .May  16,  1918;  landed  Brest 
May  24,  1918;  Albert,  Argonne  Meuse;  trf.  1st  repl.  depot 
(>.  T.  C.  La  Valbonne,  Oct.  17,  1918;  assigned  36  Div.. 
May  15.  1919,  attached  Hq.  Co.,  lllth  Eng.;  returned 
with  36  Div.,  landing  June  11,  1919.  Dis.  July  3,  C. 
Grant.  One  brother  in  service. 

OLSIIASKIE,   LUTHER  Pana,   111. 

Knl.   Shelbyville,  June  28,    1918;    sent  to   Camp  Taylor. 

2.  O'XIEL,  JOHN   R.  Private   1st  Cl. 
Decatur,   111.  21st  Infantry 

Born  1892,  St.  Jacob,  111. ;  son  of  Thos.  O'Xiel.  St.  Louis, 
Mo.;  auto  mechanic;  enl.  May  23,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  21st  Inf.;  trained  at  Camp  Taliaferro  and  Camp 
Kearney,  Cal.  and  Ft.  Russell,  Wyo.  Dis.  Aug.  4,  1919, 
C'.  Grant.  One  brother  in  service. 


C'orporal 
Co.   H,   130   Inf.,  33   Div. 


3.  OXIOX,  CHARLES 
Windsor,    III. 

Horn  Dec.  26,  1891,  Corydon,  Ind. ;  son  Thomas  and  -Anna 
Onion,  Windsor;  farmer;  enl.  July  21,^1917,  Shelbyville; 
with  Co.  H,  130th  Inf.;  promoted  Cpl.  at  Daryenies, 
France;  trained  as  sniper,  C.  Logan;  sailed  May  17,  1918; 
landed  Hrest  May  26,  1918;  Meuse  Argonne  offensive, 
Somme,  Amiens  sector,  Troyon  sector  and  Army  of  Occu- 
pation;  returned  with  Co.  H.  Dis.  May  30,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

4.  ORHERG,  RUSSELL  THORSELL         Bn.  Sgt.  Major 
Shelbyville,   111.  160  Depot   Brigade 

Born  Nov.  10,  1897,  Chicago;  son  Peter  and  Hilma  Or- 
berg,  Shelbyville;  stenographer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918;  as- 
signed 16'9th  Depot  Brigade,  C'amp  Custer,  Mich. ;  pro- 
moted Cpl.,  Dec.  16,  1918,  then  Sgt.,  March  4,  1919,  then 
Bn.  Sgt.  Major,  March  15,  1919.  J)is.  March  31,  1919,  C. 
Custer.  Brother,  Oscar,  died  in  France. 

5.  ORDEL,  HOWARD  Private 
Windsor,    III.                                                            4th   Repl.   Sqd. 

Born  1895,  Champaign;  son  Samuel  Ordel,  Windsor: 
farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  4th 
Repl.  Squadron,  Camp  Custer;  mechanic;  trf.  Ft.  Wayne. 
Feb.  20.  Dis.  Jan.  23,  1919,  Ft.  Wayne,  Detroit. 

6.  ORR,  FRED 

7.  ORR,  MINDIK 
Bethany,   III. 

S 

f>is."'Ft."Mc'lnYo'sh,"'  Tex. 

8.  OSBORNE,  HARRY   PIXXELL  Kgtl.  Sgt.  Major 
Janesville,  111.                                   Co.  II,  130  Inf..  33  Div. 

Born  Dec.  4,  1896,  Decatur;  son  Mrs.  L.  P..  Osborne, 
Janesville,  III.;  student;  enl.  May  30,  1917,  Mattoon ;  Co. 
II,  130  Inf.;  promoted  Cpl.  to  Sgt.,  then  Regtl.  Sgt. 
Major;  in  training  Camp  Logan;  sailed  May  16,  1918; 
landed  Brest  May  24,  1918;  47  days  on  firing  line;  Meuse- 
Argonne,  Somme,  Albert;  returned  with  33d  Div.  Dis. 
May  30,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

9.  OSTERDAY,  JASPER  C.  Sgt.    1st    Cl. 
Windsor,  111.                                                      Co.   H.   150   Inf. 

Born  Tuly  3,  1886,  Lafayette,  Ind.;  son  of  Milton  and 
Laura  Osterday,  Lafayette;  baker;  enl.  May  27,  1918, 
Camp  Shelby,  Miss.;  assigned  to  Co.  H,  150  Inf.;  trf.  to 
Bakery  No."364  *-*-  '  '"'"  —  -•---'  -  =-«--- •  •— 

Cooks   and    Bake.-, 

Demobilization    Unit    No.    1,    Oct. 
1919,  C.  Gordon,  Ga. 


Shelbyville,   111. 

1st   Cl.    Private 
Co.   B,  37  Inf. 


•ion    of  W.    D.    Orr,    Findlay;    enl.    May   23,    1918;    sent   Jef- 
ferson   Bks.  ;    trf.    Camp    Mclntosh,    Tex.,    Co.    B,    37    Inf. 


on    Tuly    11,    1918,   attached   to   School    for 
:rs,    Feb.    13,    1919;    trf. 


to    Camp    Gordon. 
1919.     Dis.    Oct    11, 


10.  OSTERMEIER,   EDWARD  H.  Private 

Strasburg,   111.  Co.   C,   M.    G.,  38   Div. 

Born  Sept.  26,  1893,  Strasburg;  farmer;  enl.  May  27,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Co.  C',  M.  G..  38th  Div.;  trained 
in  Camp  Shelby;  sailed  from  Hoboken  Oct.  3,  1918; 
landed  Liverpool,  Oct.  14;  returned  with  145  Inf.,  Co.  B. 
Dis.  Oct.  15,  1919,  C.  Grant.  Two  brothers  and  one  sister 
in  service. 

OWINGS.  GEO.  Private 

Ilerrick,   111.  Co.   B,  36   Engineers 

Knl.  Silverwood,  Ind.,  March  28,  1918;  assigned  Co.  B. 
36  Kngrs. ;  sailed  June  7,  1918.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Tuly  10, 
1919. 


OWIXC.S.   LUTHER 


Ilerrick,  111. 
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1.  OWENS,  GEORGE  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                              115  F.  A.,  30  Div. 

Born  1892,  Findlav  ;  farmer;  son  Wm.  Owens,  Shelbyville; 
enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Batt.  D,  327  F. 
A.,  84  Div.,  C.  Taylor;  trf.  C.  Sevier,  S.  C.,  30  Div.,  F.  A.; 
sailed  New  York  June  4,  1918;  under  fire  3  mos.:  active 
service,  St.  Mihiel,  Argonne.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Apr.  10,  1919; 
one  brother  in  service. 

2.  OWENS,  WM.  L.  Private 

Shelbyville,    111.  Co.   H,    150   Inf.,    38   Div. 

Born  Sept.  25,  1886,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  enl.  May  27, 
1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Co.  H,  150  Inf.,  38  Div.;  trf. 
Pioneer  Co.,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.,  C.  Shelby;  trained  6  mos,; 
sailed  Hoboken,  Oct.  6,  1918;  returned  to  U.  S.  with 
casual  Co.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  27,  1919. 

3.  PAGE,  THOMAS  Cook 
Moweau.ua,  111.                                  Co.  C,   130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Born  March  29,  1888,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  Mrs.  Kath- 
erine  Page.  Moweaqua;  enl.  Sullivan  June  25,  1916,  Co. 
C,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.;  cook;  trained  C.  Logan,  Tex.;  sailed 
Hoboken  May  14,  1918;  landed  Brest  May  26,  1918;  in 
trenches  May  28  to  Nov.  11,  1918;  Meuse-Argonne,  Albert 
front.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  31,  1918;  one  brother  in  service. 

4.  PARKER,  THOS.  HENRY  Corporal 
Shelbyville,  111.                                                 Co.  II,   130  Inf. 

Born  Apr.  25,  1899,  Shelbyville;  blacksmith;  son  John  and 
Minnie  Parker;  trained  C.  Logan  10  mos.;  automatic  rifle- 
man (Lewis  gunner);  sailed  Hoboken  May  16,  1918;  land- 
ed Bay  of  Biscay,  May  24,  1918;  to  trenches  July  9,  1918; 
on  line  3  mos. ;  Argonne-Meuse,  St.  Mihiel,  Morlancourt, 
Hamel  ;  in  hospital,  trench  feet  and  gas.  Dis.  C.  Grant. 
Feb.  27,  1919;  100%  disability. 

5.  PARR,  FLOYD  Seaman  2nd  Class 
Findlay,  111.  U.  S.  Navy 

Born  Jan.  25,  1897,  Monticello ;  farmer;  son  Samuel  and 
Sadie  Parr,  Findlay;  enl.  June  2,  1918,  Decatur ;  navy; 
trained  9J/2  mos.,  Great  Lakes.  Dis.  March  6,  1919,  Great 
Lakes. 

6.  PARISH,  BENJ.  F.  Private 
Shelbyville,  III.                                            316  F.  A..  81  Div. 

Born  Oct.  28,  1890,  Pana;  printer;  son  C.  A.  and  Mary 
Jane  Parish,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Dec.  5,  1917,  Jefferson  Bks.; 
to  Printers'  Co.  No.  1,  C.  Johnston,  Jacksonville,  Fla. ; 
trained  8  mos.;  trf.  Field  Art.;  sailed  C.  Mills,  Aug.  5, 

1918,  on    "Aquitania";    landed    Liverpool    Aug.    12,    1918; 
finished    training    La   Valdahon.     Dis.    C.    Taylor    Tune    20, 
1919. 

7.  PATE,  CLYDE  Private 
Shelbyville,  III.                         M.  G.  Co.,  45  Inf.,  9th  Div. 

Born  Feb.  3,  1899,  Shelbyville;  student;  son  L.  F.  Pate, 
Shelbyville;  enl.  Chicago;  trained  C.  Sheridan,  Ala.,  6 
mos.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Dec.  23,  1918. 

8.  PATTERSON,  SAM  1st  C.  Private 
Tower  Hill,  111.                                       Co.  K,  22   Engineers 

Son  Henry  Patterson,  Tower  Hill;  enl.  June  26,  Shelby- 
ville; C.  Taylor;  later  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison,  Engineers; 
sailed  Sept.  1,  1918;  under  fire  18  hours.  Dis.  July  3, 

1919,  C.  Taylor. 

9.  PAfLEY,  JOHN  First  Cl.  Private 
Pana,  III.  53   Engineers 

Born  Oct.  2,  1889,  Pana;  locomotive  fireman;  son  James 
Pauley ;  married  Gertrude  Pope,  Aug.  23,  1919;  enl.  Apr. 
25,  1918,  Mattoon;  trained  C.  Dix  36  days;  sailed  Ho- 
boken June  10,  1918,  on  "Orizaba";  landed  Brest,  June 
19;  returned  with  89  Co.  Transportation  Det.  Dis.  C. 
Grant  July  12,  1919. 

10.  PEA,  ALOXZO  Private 
Henton,  III.                                 Batt.  E,   125  F.  A.,  Div.  34 

Trained  C.  Cody,  N.  M. ;  went  to  France  Sept.  24,  1918. 
Dis.  Jan.  22,  1919,  C.  Dodge,  la. 

Windsor,   III. 

Sergeant 
B  341,  Tank  Corps 

Tower  Hill.   111. 
Brother    Earl    in    army.     Son 


PETERSON,  THOMAS  CLARK 
PIIELPS,  A.  G. 


PITZER,   LLOYD 

Served   as    Ensign    in   navy. 

of  John   Pitzer,  Tower  Hill. 

POGUE,  DELMAR  Motor  Transport   Corps 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Pogue.  Dis.  from  Vancouver 
Bks.,  M.  T.  C.,  in  Jan.,  1919. 

PRUITT-,  JOHN  Sergeant 

Windsor.    111. 

Enl.  California,  Oct.  19,  1918,  and  left  at  once  for  France, 
where  he  served  with  a  supply  company  in  the  A.  E.  F.  ; 
in  France  10  mos. ;  returned  to  U.  S.  and  is  at  C.  Grant ; 
t-nlistment  will  not  end  until  Sept.,  1920.  Served  10  years 
in  I".  S.  Army. 

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1.  PAUSCIIERT,    KM  MA  Army    Xurse   Corps 
Shelbyville,   III.              Replacement  Unit  No.  8,  A.    1C.   F. 

Horn  June  3,  1890,  Shelbyville;  Night  Supt.  Grant  Hospi- 
tal, Chicago;  (laughter  W.  R.  Pauschert,  Decatur;  enl. 
Sept.  1,  1918,  Chicago;  to  C.  Sherman,  Chillicothe,  O. ; 
sailed  Hoboken,  Nov.  28,  1918,  U.  S.  S.  Mongolia;  landed 
Brest  Dec.  6,  1918;  Red  Cross  Nurse.  Dis.  X.  V.  Citv, 
July  6,  1919. 

2.  I'AUCIIERT.   HARRY  Sgt    Major 
Shelbyville,   III.                                 Co.  A,  General   Hq.  Co. 

Horn  Sept.  10,  1888,  Shelbyville;  drug  clerk:  son  of 
F.  A.  Pauchert;  enl.  Sept.  4,  1917,  Pocatello,  Idaho,  Co. 
I),  361  Inf.;  promoted  to  Cpl.  Oct.,  1917;  to  Sgt.,  Feb.. 
1918;  to  Sgt.  .Major,  .May,  1918;  trained  4'A  mos. ;  sailed 
Hoboken  Feb.  10,  1918,  on  "President  Grant";  landed 
Brest.  March  6.  1918;  secret  service  work  at  Chaumont. 
His.  C.  Mills,  July  15,  1919. 

3.  PKBKRXAT.  RAY  Mechanic 
Assumption,  111.         1st  School  Batt.  F.  A..  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Horn  Dec.,  1890,  Hammond;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Chas.  Pebcrnat,  Assumption;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville; sent  C.  Taylor.  Dis.  April  4,  1919. 


4.      PKRRY,    FRH1)  Corporal 

Findlay,  111.  Battery  F,  48  Regt.,  C.  A.  C. 

Born  Oct.  5,  1899,  Todd's  Point;  ry.  brakeman ;  son  Mrs. 
M.  C.  Perry,  Bethany;  enl.  June  7,  1918,  Decatur;  sent 
Jefferson  Bks.,  assigned  48  Art. ;  trf.  Ft.  McKinley,  Me., 
June  14;  trf.  C.  Eustis,  Va.,  Aug.,  1918;  Oct.  5,  two  bat- 
tles with  subs  on  way  over;  landed  Brest;  finished  train- 
ing Le  Mans,  Fr. ;  behind  the  33  Div.  in  Argonne  Forest: 
after  armistice  assigned  64  Engrs.  until  Dec.  20,  trf. .  back 
to  48  Regt.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  March  29,  1919. 


PERRY,  ROY 
Findlay,  111. 


Corporal 
48  Art.  Battery  F 


Born  Aug.  2,  1898,  Todd's  Point;  son  Mrs.  M.  C.  Perry, 
Bethany;  ry.  brakeman;  enl.  June  7,  1918,  Decatur;  sent 
Jeff.  Bks.  ;  assigned  48  Art.  C.  A.  C. ;  trf.  Ft.  McKinley, 
Me.,  June  14;  trf.  C.  Eustis,  Ya.,  Aug.,  1918;  overseas 
from  Newport  Xews,  Oct.  15,  two  battles  with  subs  on 
voyage ;  landed  Brest ;  finished  training  Le  Mans,  Fr. ; 
behind  33  Div.  in  Argonne  Forest;  trf.  64  Engrs.  after 
armistice ;  trf.  back  to  48  Art.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  March  29, 
1919;  served  clear  through  with  brother,  Fred. 


6.      PERRY,  JACOB  1st  Class  Private 

Findlay,  111.  115  F.  A.,  30th  Div. 

Horn  July  13,  1889,  Findlay;  farmer;  enl.  Oct.  2,  1917, 
Shelbyville ;  sent  C.  Taylor ;  assigned  327  F.  A. :  trf.  C. 
Sevier,  S.  C. ;  sailed  Xew  York  June  4,  1918,  transport 
Maritana ;  landed  Liverpool ;  in  action  from  Aug.  28  until 
armistice;  St.  Mihiel,  Argonne-Meuse  sector.  Dis.  C.  Grant 
April  11,  1919. 


7.     PERRY,   ELLSWORTH  Private 

Findlay,  III.  Co.  A,  37  Infantry 

Born  Oct.  19,  1894,  Decatur;  son  Samuel  B.  and  Emma 
C.  Perry,  Findlay  ;  brakeman  C.  &  E.  I.  R.  R. ;  enl.  May 
23,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  Jefferson  Hks. ;  assigned  Co.  A, 
37  Inf.;  trf.  Ft.  Mclntosh,  Tex.;  did  border  duty.  Dis. 
June  1,  1919.  One  brother,  Thomas,  in  service.  (Bloom- 
ington  National  Guard.) 


8.     PERRY,  WM.  R.  Private 

Pana,  111.  327  F.  A.,  Battery  D. 

Born  Jan.  3,  1889,  Pana;  son  Moses  and  Ellen  Perry, 
Pana;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  2,  1917,  Shelbyville,  sent  C.  Tay- 
lor; assigned  327  F.  A.,  Batt.  I),  trf.  West  Point  Apr.  1, 
1918;  sailed  Hoboken  Sept.  8,  1918,  transport  Ordiina ; 
landed  Liverpool :  finished  training  De  Souge,  France. 
Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  19,  1919. 


9.  FERRYMAN.  C  ARLOS  M.  Private 
Shelbyville,   III.                                             Co.  46,  160  D.  B. 

Son  Mrs.  Adele  Leist ;  electrician;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1919;  sent 
C.  Custer,  Mich.;  assigned  46  Co.,  160  D.  B. ;  trf.  Ft. 
Totten,  X.  J.,  to  Coast  Art.,  Xov.  1  ;  trf.  10  days  later  to 
Fortress  Monroe,  Ya.  Dis.  Jan.  9,  1919. 

10.  PETERS,  JOHX  Private 
Pana,  111.                                            Co.  H,  139  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Enl.  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  sent  to  C.  Logan  Oct.  9,  1917; 
sailed  May  15,  1918,  transport  Agamemnon;  served  through 
with  Co.  H  in  France.  Dis.  Oct.,  1919;  disability. 

PIERCE,  THOMAS  A.  Shelbyville,  111. 

Sent  July  31,    1918,   to  Syracuse,   X.   Y. ;   rejected. 

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1.  PHELPS,  OLLIK  EARNEST  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                         38  and  39  Divisions 

Born  Aug.  19,  1892,  Shelbyville;  son  L.  Phelps;  enl.  June 
27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Taylor;  later  assigned  C. 
Beauregard,  La.,  39  Div.,  July  20 ;  sailed  Hoboken  Aug. 
22,  1918:  landed  Brest;  on  firing  line  34  days;  in  Meuse- 
Argonne  sector;  gassed  Nov.  4  at  Powey,  France;  cited 
for  bravery  at  Powey,  France ;  grenadier ;  trf.  to  89  Div., 
Sept.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  June  1,  1919. 

2.  PHILLIPS,  PERRY  M.    M..  2d   Class 
Fimllay,  111.  U.  S.  Navy 

Born  Aug.  3,  1896,  Macon  Co.;  son  John  R.  Phillips. 
Findlay ;  farmer;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  in  navy,  St.  Louis; 
sent  C.  P.oone;  trf.  C.  Uewey,  July,  1918;  trf.  C.  Ross, 
luly  24:  trf.  Hampton  Roads,  Aug.  3;  in  training  8  mos. 
Dis.  Feb.  6,  1919,  Hampton  Roads. 


3.  PHILLIPS,  WARD  A.  Sergeant 
Cowden,  111.                                      Co.  G,  Amm.  Tr..  6  Div. 

Born  Oct.  12,  1891,  Cowden ;  son  M.  T.  and  Anna  Phil- 
lips: farmer;  enl.  Shelbyville,  -May  10,  1918;  sent  Ft. 
Thomas,  Ky. :  assigned  Co.  G,  Amm.  Tr.,  6  Div.;  pro- 
moted Cpl.,  June  27;  promoted  Sgt.  in  France;  trf.  C. 
Wadsworth;  sailed  New  York  July  14,  1918;  landed  Liver- 
pool :  on  front  at  Argonne  Forest.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  June 
13.  1919. 

4.  PIIIPPS.  VELARIOUS  1st  Class  Private 
Cowden,   111.                                     315  Salvage  Co.,  89  Div. 

Born  Oct.  29,  1896,  Arthur,  111.;  son  Samuel  and  Tillie 
Phipps,  Cowden;  enl.  May  27,  1918,  Springfield;  sent 
TerTerson  Bks. ;  trf.  C.  Johnston  Tune  10,  1918;  assigned 
315  Salvage  Co.;  sailed"  Newport  News,  Aug.  21,  1918; 
attacked  three  times  by  submarines;  landed  Brest;  in 
action  one  mo.;  in  engagement  at  St.  Mihiel.  Dis.  C. 
Grant.  July  14,  1919. 

5.  PIKE,  HUBERT  Private 
Findlay,  111.                                     Hq.  Co.,   10  Inf.,   14  Div. 

Born  Aug.  3,  1894,  Westervelt ;  son  Bert  Pike,  Shelbyville; 
machinist:  enl.  Shelbyville,  May  29,  1918:  sent  Ft. 
Thomas.  Ky. ;  assigned  Hq.  Co.,  10  Inf.,  14  Div.;  trf.  Ft. 
Benjamin  Harrison,  June  19;  trf.  C.  Custer,  Aug.  3.  Dis. 
C.  Custer,  March  18,  1919.  One  brother  in  service;  wife 
died  while  at  Camp  Custer. 

6.  PITZER,   EARL  Sergeant 
Tower  Hill,    III.                                                           59   Engineers 

Born  Nov.  1,  1888,  Assumption;  son  J.  C.  Pitzer,  Tower 
Hill;  ry.  brakeman.  Mattoon ;  enl.  Oct.  2,  1917;  sent  C. 
Taylor,  assigned  159  D.  B. ;  trf.  C.  Pike,  Nov.  16.  to  Co. 
C,  345  Inf.;  promoted  Cpl.  Dec.  1;  trf.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  15, 
1918,  to  Repl.  13  Eng. ;  sailed  March  14,  1918;  landed  Bor- 
deaux ;  at  Nevers,  Fr.,  assigned  to  59  Engrs. ;  promoted 
Sgt..  June  4;  returned  U.  S.  as  casual.  Dis.  C.  Lee,  Va., 
June  3,  1919.  Brother  Lloyd  an  Ensign  in  navy. 


Quartermaster  2d   Cl. 
Naval  Aviation 


7.      POGUE,  RAYMOND  H. 

Findlay,  111. 

Born  May  9,  1897,  Findlay;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
L.  E.  Pogue,  Findlay;  enl.  Decatur  May  31,  1918;  as- 
signed navy  :  seaman  2nd  class ;  promoted  Quartermaster 
2nd  Class,  Naval  Aviation,  Great  Lakes,  Oct.  23.  Re- 
leased Jan.  10,  1919. 


8.     POLLARD,   LLOYD  V. 
Tower  Hill,  111. 


First  Cl.   Private 
403   Aero   Sqdn. 


Born  March  4,  1896,  Coffeen,  111.;  mail  clerk;  son  Mrs. 
Martha  Mills,  Tower  Hill;  enl.  Aug.  20,  1917,  St.  Louis, 
Mo. :  assigned  493  Aero  Sqdn. ;  trained  Kelly  Field  and 
Mineola  Field;  sailed  Hoboken,  Nov.  22,  1917;  landed  Le 
Havre.  Dis.  C.  Dodge  Feb.  10,  1919. 

9.  PONSLER,   LAWRENCE  C.  Private 
Holland,  111.                                                 Co.   F,  39  Division 

Horn  Ian.  9,  1893,  Holland,  III.:  farmer;  son  Mrs.  Frank 
Ponsler;  enl.  Shelbyville  June  27,  1918;  sent  C.  Taylor: 
assigned  54  Co.,  159th  Depot  Brig.;  trf.  C.  Beauregard, 
Co.  F,  39  Div.;  sailed  Hoboken,  Aug.  22,  1918;  landed 
Brest;  firing  line  Nov.  9,  \l/2  days,  Meuse-Argonne ;  64 
Brig,  given  name  "Les  Terribles."  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  18, 
1919. 

10.  POOLE,  CHARLES  HAMPTON  Corporal 
Mowe'aqua,  111.                                      Co.  M,  54  Inf.,  6  Div. 

Born  March  24,  1893,  Moweaqua ;  clerk;  enl.  Shelbyville, 
May  10,  1918;  sent  Ft.  Thomas,  Ky. ;  assigned  Co.  M,  54 
Inf..  6  Div.;  trf.  C.  Wadsworth;  sailed  N.  Y.,  July  6,  1918; 
huxk'il  Glasgow;  promoted  Cpl.  in  trenches,  V'osges  Mts., 
Alsace-Lorraine,  Sept.  12,  1918;  firing  line  Sept.  1-Oct.  12, 
1918;  Lar  Ley  sector,  Meuse-Argonne;  sniper  and  runner. 
Dis.  C.  Grant  June  21,  1919. 

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I.  POPEXDICKER,  FRED  1st  Cl.    Private 
Strasburg,  111.                                       Co.   C.    110  Amm.  Tr. 

Horn  May  13,  1889,  Strasburg;  carpenter;  son  August  and 
Minnie  Popendicker,  Strasburg;  enl.  Sept.  19,  1917.  Dallas, 
Tex. ;  sent  C.  Travis,  assigned  345  F.  A.,  90  Div. ;  trf. 
Ft.  Sills,  Okla.,  March  31,  1918,  110  Amm.  Tr. :  promoted 
1st  Cl.  Private;  sailed  Hoboken  May  19,  1918:  landed 
Liverpool;  started  hauling  troops  and  amm.  to  firing  line; 
Vosges  sector  June  16-Sept.  3,  1918;  St.  Mihiel.  Sept.  10, 

II,  1918;    Argonne   sector   Sept.    20-Oct.    12,    1918;    Meuse 
sector  Oct.  15-Nov.  11,  1918.     Dis.  C.  Travis,  May  1,  1919. 
due  brother  in  service. 


2.      I'OPEXDICKER,  HENRY  Private 

Strasburg,  111.  Hq.  Co.,  308  F.  A.,  78  Div. 

Horn  July  8,  1891,  Strasburg;  carpenter;  son  August  and 
Minnie  Popendicker,  Strasburg;  enl.  April  30,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville;  sent  C.  Dix:  assigned  Hq.  Co.,  308  F.  A.,  78  Div.; 
sailed  Hoboken  May  26,  1918;  landed  Liverpool;  tiring 
line  Aug.  27-N"ov.  11,  1918;  St.  Mihiel,  Argonne.  Siuppe, 
Grand  Pre :  messenger  and  telephone  work.  Dis.  C.  Grant, 
May  27,  1919.  One  brother  in  service. 


3.      PORTWOOD,  STEPHEN  R.  1st  Cl.   Private 

Moweaqua,  111.  Co.  D,  142  Inf.,  36  Div. 

Enl.  Shelby ville,  May  27;  assigned  Co.  H,  150  Inf.,  38 
1'iv.,  C.  Shelby;  sailed  Oct.  6;  trf.  overseas  to  36  Div. 
as  private  1st  class.  Dis.  June  12,  1919. 


4.      POWELL,  JAMES  RAYMOND  Corporal 

Shelbyville,  III.  Hq.  Detch.,   153   F.  A.    Brig. 

Horn  Feb.  19,  1895,  Mattoon ;  student;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
L.  E.  Powell,  Shelbyville;  enl.  April  30,  1918,  Shelby  vijle ; 
sent  C.  Dix.;  assigned  Hq.  Co.,  308  F.  A.;  sailed  New 
York  May  27,  1918;  landed  Liverpool;  promoted  Cpl., 
March  12,  1919,  Fain-les-Moutiers ;  firing  line  Sept.  12-Xov. 
11,  1918;  Toul  sector,  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse- Argonne.  Grand 
Pre;  trf.  Hq.  Detch.,  153  F.  A.  Brig.  Dis.  June  1,  1919, 
C.  Grant. 


5      PRATT,   LEMUEL  A.  Private 

Moweaqua,  111.  Q.   M.   C. 

Horn  Nov.  7,  1892;  farmer;  enl.  Shelbyville,  June  27,  1918: 
sent   C.   Taylor;   assigned   Q.    M.   C. ;_  remained   C.    Taylor, 
'or,   Ma: 


mos.     Dis.    C.   Taylor 


lay  27,   1919. 


6.     PRICE,   EARL  Private 

Shelbyville,  111.  M   Co.,  34  Reg.,  C.  A.   C. 

Horn  June  14,  1892,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  Geo.  Price, 
Shelbyville;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  C. 
C  lister,  45  Co.  Dep.  ;  trf.  Ft.  Totten ;  trf.  C.  Eustis,  Va., 
34  Reg.,  C.  A.  C.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Dec.  27,  1919;  one 
brother  in  service. 


7.      PRICE,  JAMES  A.  Private 

Shelbyville,  111.  45  Co.,  Depot  Hrigade 

Horn  Tune  20,  1894,  Shelby  Co.;  mechanic;  son  Geo.  Price. 
Shelbyville:  enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  5,  1918;  assigned  45 
Co.,  160th  Depot  Hrigade.  Dis.  C.  Custer,  Jan.  23,  1919; 
one  brother  in  service. 


Corporal 
First  Army  Corps  Rep!. 


8.      PRICE,   EDWARD 

Shelbyville,  111. 
Telegrapher;  son  II.  A.  and  Sarah  E.  Price,  Shelbyville, 
111.;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Aug.  30,  1918;  sent  C.  Grant  for 
limited  service ;  passed  there  for  overseas  duty  and  went 
across  with  1st  Replacement  Petch.,  Nov.  11:  never 
reached  front  on  account  sickness.  Dis.  C.  Grant  March 
1,  1919. 


9.      PRICE,  IIARLEY  Cook 

Windsor,  111.  4  Truck  Co.,  116  Amm.  Train 

Farmer;  born  near  Windsor,  Dec.  8,  1889;  son  J.  J. 
and  Harriett  Price,  formerly  of  Windsor;  enl.  Aug.  9,  1917, 
at  Ft.  D.  A.  Russell,  as  member  3d  Wyoming  Inf.  (Na- 
tional Guard),  later  changed  to  ammunition  train,  41st 
Div.;  sailed  Dec.  12,  1917;  landed  St.  Nazaire,  Dec.  27, 
1917;  this  outfit  broken  up  as  replacements;  never  under 
fire,  though  in  combat  outfit  in  France  for  18  months. 
Dis.  Ft.  D.  A.  Russell,  Wyo.,  June  15,  1919. 


10.   PRICE,  SIDNEY  A.  Sergeant 

Windsor,  111.  146   F.  A..  41    Div. 

Farmer ;  son  J.  J.  and  Harriett  Price,  formerly  of  Windsor ; 
enl.  at  Lapivai,  Idaho,  Aug.  4,  1917;  had  former  service 
with  National  Guard  on  Mexican  border;  sailed  Tan.  26, 
1917:  in  Meuse-Argonne,  St.  Mihiel,  Marne  (off.  and  ilef. ). 
as  member  of  146  Field  Artillery.  Dis.  in  June,  1919. 

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1.  I'ROSSER,   CHESTER  O.  Private 
Mode,  III.                                                  Quartermaster  Corps 

Born  Oct.  3,  1894,  Holland;  farmer;  son  Willard  anil 
Emma  C.  Prosser,  Mode;  enl.  Shelbyville,  June  27,  1918: 
sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  assigned  Q.  M.  Corps.  Dis.  C. 
Taylor,  May  26,  1919. 

2.  QUITMEYER,  HERBERT  HENRY  Corporal 
Cowden,  111.                                      Co.  F,  13  Reg.,  Marines 

Born  Oct.  14,  1888,  New  Athens,  III.;  traveling  salesman; 
son  Fred  and  Katheryne  Quitmeyer,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  enl. 
June  10,  1918,  Springfield;  assigned  212  Co.,  Paris  Island, 
S.  C. ;  trf.  Co.  F,  13  Reg.  U.  S.  Marines;  sailed  Iloboken 
Sept.  13,  1918,  on  German  sea  raider  Von  Steuben  ;  landed 
Brest ;  promoted  Cpl.,  St.  Nazaire,  France ;  citation  from 
Gen.  Harris  for  relief  work  during  influenza  epidemic ; 
runner;  arrived  in  Hoboken  May  22,  1919,  as  acting  1st 
Sgt.  in  charge  Casual  Co.  No.  688  on  S.  S.  Manchuria. 
Honorably  dis.  at  Ouantico,  Va.,  June  13,  1919. 


3.     RADLOFF,  ARTHUR  Private 

Altamont,  III.  131   Amb.  Co.,  33   IMv. 

Enl.  member  of  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. ;  trf.  at  Camp 
Logan,  Texas,  to  131  Amb.  Co.;  served  through  war  with 
33  Division. 


. 

Born  June   21,    1895,   Shelby   Co.;    farmer;    son    E.    A.   and 
Eliza   E.   Ragan;   enl.   Sept.   18,   1917,  Shelbyville;   assigned 


4.     RAGAX,   PAUL  IIARLEY  Private 

Shelbyville,  111.  Bat.  C,  115  F.  A.,  30  Div. 

d 

agan;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
C.  Taylor,  Bat.  D,  327  F.  A.;  trf.  C.  Sevier,  Bat.  C,  115 
F.  A.,  30  Div.;  sailed  N.  Y.  June  4,  1918;  landed  Liver- 
pool; firing  line  4  mos.  ;  Toul,  St.  Mihiel,  Argonne,  Wouvre 
Plains;  teamster.  Dis.  C.  Grant  April  10,  1919. 


5.     RAKER.   TOHX  H.  Private 

Oconee,  111.  L  Co.,  39  Inf.,  4  Div. 

Born  Xov.  8,  1893,  Oconee;  farmer;  son  Henry  and  Mary 
Raker.  Oconee;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  18,  1918;  assigned 
C.  Taylor.  Hat.  D,  327  F.  A.,  84  Div.;  trf.  C.  Pike,  Co.  G, 
346  Inf.,  87  Div.;  trf.  C.  Greene,  Co.  L,  39  Inf.,  4  Div.; 
trf.  C.  Mills;  sailed  Hoboken,  May  10,  1918;  landed  Brest; 
firing  line  July  18-Aug.  4,  1918;  Chateau  Thierry,  Vesle 
River ;  automatic  rifleman  ;  wounded.  Dis.  C.  Grant  April 
2,  1919. 


6.  RANKIX.  BERTRAM   E.  Private 
Windsor,   111.                                   Sup.   Co.,    164   Inf.,  41    Div. 

Born  Dec.  23,  1888,  Windsor;  farmer;  son  Richard  C. 
Rankin,  Windsor;  enl.  Kenmore,  N.  D.,  July  14,  1917; 
assigned  C'.  Greene,  Sup.  Co.,  164  Inf.,  41  Div.;  trf.  to 
C.  Mills;  trf.  C.  Merritt ;  promoted  Wagoner;  attended 
O.  T.  C.,  Minot,  N.  Dak.;  sailed  Hoboken  Dec.  14,  1917; 
landed  Liverpool.  Dis.  C.  Dodge,  July  30,  1919. 

7.  RAYMOND,  CLAUDE  D.  Mode,   111. 
Enl.   Des  Moines,   la.,  July   14,   1917 ;   assigned  to   Deming, 
N.    Mex.,   there   one   year;    sent   to   France;    there    3    mos.; 
returned  to  U.  S.  Jan.  6,    1919.     Dis.  at  Des  Moines,   Tan. 
18,   1919,  after  18  mos.  4  days  service. 


8.     READ,   LLOYD  WAYNE  Private 

Tower  Hill,  111.  Co.  H,  152  Inf.,  38  Det.,  76  Brig. 

Born  Tune  6,  1894,  Pana ;  barber;  enl.  Shelbyville,  May 
27.  1918;  assigned  C.  Shelby,  Co.  H,  152  Inf.,  38  Div.; 
trf.  C.  Pike.  Aug.  13,  1918,  2  C.  O.  T.  S. ;  received  dis- 
charge in  preference  to  commission  at  C.  Pike  Nov.  27, 
1918. 


9.     REED,   HARRY  ORMA  1st  Class  Private 

Shelbyville,    111.  Replacements 

Born  April  1,  1891,  Shelbyville;  bookkeeper;  son  Allen  II. 
and  Frances  Carrie  Reed;  enl.  July  16,  1918,  Jefferson 
Bks.  :  assigned  C.  McArthur,  Replacements;  recommended 
O.  T.  C.,  but  not  assigned  account  armistice  signed.  Dis. 
C.  Funston,  Feb.  5,  1919. 


10.  REED,  WM.   N.  Private 

Tower  Hill,  111.  Co.  A,   136  M.  G.  Bn.,  37  Div. 

Born  Jan.  30,  1893,  Indianapolis ;  laborer;  son  Warren  and 
Lucy  Reed,  Tower  Hill  ;  enl.  Burlington,  Wis.,  May  27, 
1918";  sent  to  C.  Grant;  assigned  Co.  F,  344  Inf.,  86  Div. 
(Blackhawk);  promoted  Cpl.;  trf.  Co.  A,  136  M.  G.  Bn.. 
137  Div.,  as  private;  sailed  Hoboken  Sept.  9,  1918;  landed 
Liverpool;  firing  line  Oct.  11-Nov.  18,  1918;  St.  Mihiel. 
Pannes  sector,  Ypres,  Lys  off.  Dis.  C.  Grant  April  7. 
1919. 

RECHLEIN,  HUGO  F.   L.  Moweaqua,   111 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  5,   1918;   sent  to  C.  Custer. 

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1.     REEDER,   ERNEST  B.  Private,   Marines 

Shclbyville,  111.  165   Machine  Gun  Co. 

Born  May  8,  1897,  Shelby ville;  merchant;  son  late  Jas.  W. 
and  Klla  B.  Reeder,  Shelby  ville;  enl.  AUK.  15,  1918,  Paris 
Is.,  S.  C. ;  assigned  365  Drill  Co.,  A  Battalion;  trf.  165 
M.  G.  Co.,  Nov.  1,  1918.  Dis.  Quantico,  Va.,  Feb.  7,  1919. 

J.     KE1XHART,  FLOYD  Corporal 

Pana.  111.  Co.  K,  22   Engineers 

Enl.  Shelby  ville,  June  28,  1918;  sent  Camp  Taylor;  as- 
signed Co.  K,  22  Engrs.,  4  Bn.,  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison;  pro- 
moted Cpl.;  sailed  Sept.  1,  1918;  behind  lines  Sept.  27- 
Xov.  11,  1918,  within  range.  Dis.  Camp  Grant,  May  9, 
1919. 

3.      RENXER,  CLARENCE  S.  1st  Class  Private 

Westervelt,  111.  Co.  H,   11   Regiment,   Marines 

Horn  Sept.  5,  1899,  Shelby  ville ;  farmer:  son  Alva  R.  Ren- 
tier, Westervelt:  enl.  St.  Louis,  July  26,  1918;  assigned 
Paris  Is.  Recruit  Station:  trf.  Quantico,  Va.,  Co.  H,  11 
Reg.,  Marines,  Sept.  15,  1918;  promoted  1st  class  private 
July  20,  1919;  sailed  Hoboken  Oct.  16,  1918;  landed  Brest: 
5th  Brig,  ordered  in  reserve  Nov.  10.  for  attachment  to 
2nd  Div.  Dis.  Aug.  11,  1919,  Hampton  Roads. 


-I.     REXSHAW,  KENXETH  TAMES 
llillsboro.    111. 


Coxswain 

U.  S.  S.  Patricia 
Born  Oct.  1.  1899,  Chicago:  student;  son  Jas.  F.  and  Etta 
M.  Renshaw,  llillsboro;  enl.  June  15,  1918,  Chicago;  as- 
signed C.  Farragut,  Great  Lakes,  apprentice  seaman ;  trf. 
Ellis  Is.,  July  21,  1918,  S.  2  cl. ;  promoted  Coxswain: 
sailed  Hoboken,  July  21,  1918;  fired  at  submarine;  landed 
Plymouth ;  trf.  S.  Hampton  ;  trf.  naval  aviation  base.  K;ist- 
ley,  Eng. :  trf.  back  S.  Hampton,  shipped  aboard  I".  S.  S. 
Patricia;  landed  Hoboken  Oct.  17,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Barry, 
Sept.  26,  1919. 

RETTIG,   SAMUEL   F.  Mess   Sergeant 

Moweaqua,   111  Co.   C,    130   Inf..   33   Div. 

Enl.  Sullivan.  Oct.  1,  1917,  in  Co.  C,  130th  Inf.,  33d  Div.; 
appointed  Mess  Sgt.,  at  C.  Logan  Dec.  1,  1917,  and  served 
through  with  Co.  C  in  France.  Dis.  C.  Grant  in  May,  1919. 


REYNOLDS.  ALBERT 
Windsor,    111. 


34   C.   A. 


5.  REYNOLDS,  ALVA  OWEN  Private 
Windsor,   111.                                                   Coast  Art.  Corps 

Born  Xov.  6,  1895,  Shelby  Co.;  farmer;  son  Wm.  T.  and 
Loretta  Reynolds,  Windsor;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  5,  1918; 
sent  to  C.  Custer;  assigned  160  I).  Brig.;  trf.  Ft.  Totten. 
Nov.  2;  trf.  C.  Eustis.  Xov.  10.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Dec.  27, 
191X 

REYNOLDS,  CHARLES  Neoga,   111. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Aug.  30,   1918;  sent  to  C.  Grant. 

REYNOLDS,  GUY  Corporal 

Shelbyville,   111.  Co.  M,  131   Inf. 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ed.  Reynolds,  Shelbyville;  in  service 
overseas  with  Co.  M,  131  Infantry;  Corporal. 

6.  REYNOLDS,  WM.  R.  Corporal 
Windsor,    111.                                                           38th   Division 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  M.  Reynolds;  enl.  Shelbyville  May 
27.  1918;  sent  to  C.  Shelby;  trf.  C.  Mills;  sailed  Oct.  4, 
1918;  stationed  Le  Mans,  France.  May  9,  1918. 

S.      RICH,   ORVAL  Sergeant 

Clarksburg,    111.  Co.    H,    130   Inf.,   33    Div. 

Born  Tan.  5,  1894,  Shelby  Co.:  son  Wm.  Rich,  Clarksburg; 
married  April  1,  1918,  Lillian  Watkins;  enl.  Aug.  14,  1915. 
Shelbyville,  Co.  H  ;  promoted  Cpl.,  then  Sgt. ;  with  C'o.  H 
on  Mexican  border ;  in  training  at  C.  Logan ;  sailed  from 
Hoboken,  May  15,  1918:  landed  Brest:  in  active  service 
with  Co.  H  in  France.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  30,  1919. 

9.  RICHARDS,  JOHN  ROBERT  Private 
Findlay,  HI.      '                                  Co.  C.   130  Inf..  33  Div. 

Enl.  April  10.  1917;  in  Co.  C.  130  Inf.,  33  Div.;  sent  C 
Logan,  Oct.  9,  1918;  sailed  May,  1919;  served  with  33d 
Div. 

RICHARDSON,  HENRY  ROY  Musician 

Moweaqua,    111.  I".   S.   S.    Kansas 

Horn  Feb.  11,  1892,  Blue  Mound,  111.:  tailor:  son  Mrs. 
Vary  E.  Hedrick,  Moweaqua;  enl.  Peoria.  April  26,  1918: 
assigned  navy,  -Norfolk  Tr.  Sta. ;  trfd.  Hampton  Roads, 
May  6,  1918;  trfd.  U.  S.  S.  Kansas,  Tune  28,  1918.  Dis. 
Great  Lakes.  March  8.  1919. 

10.  RTEMAXX,  CHARLES   EDW.  Bugler 
Cowden,    III.                                                Bat.    D.    327    F.   A. 

Knl.  Shelbyville.  Oct.  3,  1917;  sent  C.  Taylor;  assigned 
Bat.  D,  327  F.  A.;  promoted  to  Bugler;  served  with  84tli 
I'iv. 

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1.  RIGGS,  GEORGE  R.  Private 
lieecher  City,  III.  Co.  F,  55  Inf.,  7  Div. 

Born    Shelby    Co,    111. ;    went  to    Waco,    Texas ;    assigned 

Co.  F,  55  Inf.,  7  Div.;   sailed  Aug.,  1918;  served  overseas. 

2.  RIGGS,  MARTIN   H.  Private 
lieecher  City,  111.                                        161   Depot  Brigade 

Enl.  Decatur,  June  10,  1917;  sent  Jefferson  Bks;  trfd. 
Camp  Meigs,  Wash.,  I).  C.,  Sept.  4,  1918.  Dis.  Camp 
Grant,  from  161  Depot  Brigade,  2  Training  Bn. 


RILEY,   HARRY   E.  Moweaqua,   111. 

Son    Mrs.    Letha   O.   Riley,   Decatur;  eiil.  Shelbyville,   Sept. 
5.   191S:   sent  to  C.  Custer. 


3.     RILEY.   HOMER   V.  Private 

Tower   Hill,   111.  Bat.    I!.,   21    F.   A..   5    Div. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  5,  1917;  sent  Camp  Taylor,  Ky. ; 
assigned  Co.  M;  trfd.  Leon  Springs;  assigned  Bat.  B,  21 
F.  A.;  sailed  May  1.  1918;  firing  line  July  1  to  Xov.  11. 
Dis.  Camp  Grant,  Aug.  1,  1919. 


4.     RIXGO,   LUTHER  J.  Corporal 

Fimllay,   111.  327   Field  Artillery,  84   Div. 

Son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joe  Ringo,  Sullivan,  111;  enl.  Shelby- 
ville. Sept.  19,  1917;  sent  Camp  Taylor;  assigned  327  F. 
A.,  si 4  Div.;  sailed  Sept.  9,  1918.  Dis.  Camp  Grant,  July 
99  1919 


5.     RISACKER,  CIIAS.  A.  1st  Class  Private 

Shelbyville,  111.  Yet.  Field  Unit,  349  Inf.,  88  Div. 

Born  luly  5,  1889,  Shelbyville;  son  Frank  Risacker.  Shel- 
byville: enl.  Jan.  29,  1918,  Keokuk,  la.;  assigned  M.  V. 
S.,  88  Div.;  trfd.  Yet.  Fid.  Unit,  349  Inf.,  88  Div.,  Oct. 
21,  1918:  sailed  Quebec.  Canada,  Aug.  16,  1918;  landed 
Liverpool,  Aug.  31;  Alsace  and  Metz.  Dis.  C'.  Grant,  lime 
11.  1919. 


6.     RISSER,   SUSA  Private 

Strasburg.    111.  Co.    H,    130th    Inf. 

Born  Apr.  26,  1897,  Strasburg,  111.;  son  of  Dr.  Frederick 
Win.  and  Mary  D.  Risser,  Strasburg;  farmer;  enl.  Shelby- 
ville, Sept.  10,  1917,  Co.  H,  130  Inf.;  went  to  Camp  Lo- 
gan, Tex.:  overseas  May  15,  1918;  landed  Brest  May  24, 
I'Msi;  firing  line  July  18  to  Xov.  11;  Somme,  Yerdun,  St. 
Mihiel,  Argonne  and  Army  of  O. ;  returned  with  Co.  H. 
Dis.  May  31,  1919.  Cited  for  gallantry  in  action  at  Marche- 
villc  on  Xov.  10,  1918. 


7.     RITTGERS,   CHARLES  Hq.  Co..  37   Inf. 

Henton,    111.  Ft.    Mclntosh,    Tex. 

Son  John  A.  Rittgers,  Henton,  111.;  enl.  Shelbyville,  May 
23,  1918:  sent  Jefferson  Bks.;  trfd.  Mclntosh;  assigned  37 
Inf.  Dis.  summer  of  1919. 


8.     ROADARMAL,   YIVIAX  Wagoner 

Beecher  City,  III.  327   F.  A.,  Bat.   D,  84  Div. 

Born  Feb.  16,  1898,  Christian  Co.;  farmer;  son  Samuel 
and  Mary  A.  Roadarmal,  Beecher  City;  enl.  Oct.  2,  1917, 
Shelbyville;  assigned  327  F.  A.,  Bat.  D,  84  Div.;  promote  I 
wagoner;  sailed  Iloboken,  Sept.  7,  1918;  landed  Liverpool; 
ordered  to  front,  but  armistice  prevented.  Dis.  C.  Grant, 
Feb.  19.  1919. 


9.     ROBB,    FLOYD    NOBLE  Sergeant 

Strasburg,  111.  Battery   B,  F.  A.  Repl.   7  Reg. 

Born  Ian.  23,  1895,  Sullivan;  farmer;  son  George  and 
Mary  Robb.  Windsor;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed C.  Taylor,  54  Co..  159  Depot  Brig.;  promoted  Cpl. 
Oct.  1.  1918;  Sgt.  Nov.  1,  1918.  Dis.  Camp  Taylor,  Dec. 
29,  1918. 


10.     ROBERTS,    FOREST    HAROLD  Corporal 

Lakewood,   111.  124   Co.  9   Reg.   U.   S.    Marines 

Born  Xov.  7,  1895.  Lakewood;  son  Joseph  and  Anna 
Roberts:  enl.  June  30,  1917,  Marine  Recruiting  Office,  St. 
Louis.  Recruit  training,  Paris  Island,  S.  C.  ;  assigned  124 
Co..  9  Reg.  3  Provisional  Brig.  U.  S.  M.  C.  ;  trfd.  -Marine 
Bks.,  <Juantico;  trfd  Gauntanamo  Bay,  Cuba;  trfd.  Gal- 
veston,  Texas;  promoted  First  Class  Private;  promoted 
Cpl.  Dis.  Galveston,  Feb.  20,  1919. 

ROl'.ERTS,   GEO.    B.  Shelbyville,    111. 

Sent  to  Camp  Dix,  X.  J.,  April  30,  1918;  rejected  a  few 
days  later. 


ROBINSON,  JESSE   M. 
Enlisted   through   local   board. 

PtiHC    One    Hitntlrc,!    Si.vty-Xinf 


Puna.,    111. 


1.     ROBERTS,  MICHAEL  1st  Cl.  Private 

Duvall.  Hq.  Co.,  308  F.  A..  78  Div. 

Horn  Xov.  21,  1893,  Duvall;  stenographer;  son  John  D. 
and  Mary  E.  Roberts,  Duvall :  enl.  Shelbyville,  April  30, 
1918;  sent  C.  Dix :  assigned  Hq.  Co.,  308  F.  A.,  78  Div.; 
promoted  1st  Cl.  Private;  sailed  Hoboken,  May  26,  1918; 
landed  Liverpool;  firing  line  Aug.  27,  1918,  to  Xov.  11; 
St.  Mihiel,  Meuse-Argonne ;  runner.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May 
J7,  1919. 

.'.     ROBBIXS,  DELOS  ADAMS  Corporal 

Moweaqua,  111.  142  Inf.,  36  Div.,  71   Brig. 

Horn  Dec.  24,  1896,  Moweaqua ;  farmer ;  son  W.  D,  and 
Minervia  A.  Robbins;  enl.  April  20,  1917,  Ft.  Sills,  <  >kla.  : 
assigned  142  Inf.,  36  Div.,  71  Brig.;  prompted  Cpl.;  sailed 
Hoboken  Aug.  1,  1918;  landed  Brest;  firing  line  3  days; 
Champagne,  Argonne;  taken  prisoner  by  Germans  on  Ar- 
gonne ;  prisoner  Oct.  9  to  Dec.  10;  Rostat  Baden,  Ger- 
many; French  failed  to  support;  12  prisoners  were  taken. 
Dis."  C.  Hill,  June  18,  1919. 

3.  KODEXBERGER,  KEXT  1st  Sergeant 
Windsor,   111.  Q.  M.   C. 

Knl.  Dec.  26,  1917;  son  M.  M.  Rodenberger;  called  in 
April ;  in  training  at  Aviation  School ;  went  to  France  in 
spring  1917  with  Quartermaster  Corps  and  for  quite  a 
while  was  with  a  railroad  transportaion  unit;  stationed 
while  in  I".  S.  at  Camp  Joseph  E.  Johnston,  Jacksonville, 
Fla. 

4.  ROESSLER,   CHARLES   A.  Private 
Shelbyville.                                           Co.  E,  78  Inf.,   14   Div. 

Horn  Feb.  25,  1887,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  Philip  and 
.Mary  M.  Roessler,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville; sent  C.  Custer ;  assigned  Co.  E,  78  Inf.,  14  Div. 

5.  ROMIXGER,  WILLIAM  EDGAR  2nd  Lieut. 
Shelbyville,  111.                     14   Machine  Gun  Co.   (Repl.) 

Printer;  law  student;  son  Elizabeth  Brown;  married  Feb. 
_'l,  1918.  Elizabeth  Stewardson ;  drafted  Local  Board,  Shel- 
hyville,  Feb.  22,  1918;  assigned  18  Co.,  159  Depot  Brig- 
ade. Camp  Taylor,  Ky. ;  Cpl.  few  days  later;  trfd.  54  Co. 
tune,  1918,  as  Co.  Clerk  and  Acting  1st  Sgt. ;  trfd.  14 
Co..  C.  M.  (1.  O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Hancock,  Aug.  19;  com- 
missioned 2nd  Lieut.  Xov.  25,  1918,  Reserve  Corps.  Dis. 
Sgt.,  Hancock.  Xov.  25,  1918;  Bus.  Mgr.  Shelby  Co.  War 
Historians;  chairman  Shelby  Co.  Veterans'  Assn.:  dele- 
gate first  convention  American  Legion,  May  9,  1918;  Le- 
gion organizer  Shelby  Co.  in  1919;  delegate  and  secretary 
Roy  Vanderpool  Post,  1919. 

6.  ROWLEY,  WM.  W.  1st  Class  Seaman 
Witt,  111.  U.   S.   Xavy 

orn  July  1,  1893,  Spring  Valley,  111.;  son  Thomas  Row- 
y.  Pana ;  married  May  31,  1913.  Alta  A.  Hoover,  dau. 
ndrew  Hoover,  Pana ;  three  children,  Marion,  F.,  Walter 
.  and  Herman  E. ;  miner;  enl.  July  2,  1918,  Chicago; 
avy ;  assigned  U.  S.  X.  R.  F.,  Seaman  2nd  Class ;  pro- 
loted  1st  Class  Seaman  upon  grad.  from  Coxswain  school, 
so  recommended  as  coxswain ;  in  training  5  mo.  6  days, 
eleased  at  Great  Lakes  Dec.  8,  1918. 


R 


7.     RUBLE,  CLAUDE  B.  Bugler 

Windsor.  Co.   B.,  4th  U.  S.   Inf. 

Horn  May  12,  1888,  Windsor;  son  Charles  and  Callie  Ru- 
ble, Windsor;  restaurant  manager:  enl.  Xov.  21,  1917, 
Chicago;  assigned  Co.  B,  4th  U.  S.  Inf.;  trained  Camp 
Green  and  Camp  Stuart  as  Bugler;  sailed  Xewport  Xews 
April  15,  1918;  landed  St.  Xazaire  April  28;  in  trenches 
3  mos.  at  Chateau  Thierry,  Verdun,  Toul,  Argonne, 
Meuse;  trfd.  353  Inf.  89  Div.  in  Sept.  1918;  in  hospital, 
Nov.,  influenza.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Apr.  11,  1919. 

S.      RUBLE,    WM.    A.  Wagoner 

Windsor.  308  Amb.  Co..  77    Div. 

Horn  Feb.  16,  1890,  Lancaster.  Ohio;  son  C.  H.  and  Cal- 
lie Ruble,  Windsor;  painter;  enl.  June  20,  1917,  Pontiac, 
Mich.;  assigned  Amb.  Co.  Xo.  20,  Ft.  Oglethorpe ;  trfd. 
Amh.  Co.  Xo.  21  ;  trfd.  Amb.  Co.  Xo.  308,  77  Div..  Camp 
Upton;  promoted  in  France  to  Wagoner:  in  training  10 
mos.;  sailed  Hoboken  Apr.  1918;  landed  Brest  Ma/  6, 
1918;  to  trenches  June  21,  1918,  until  Xov.  11;  at  Bac- 
carat Sector,  Vesle  Sector,  Oisne-Aisne,  Meuse-Argonne. 
Dis.  C.  Custer,  June  4,  1919. 

9.  RUCH,    LUCIEX  Private 
Shelbyville.                                            Q.    M.    C.    Remount    319 

Horn  March,  1896,  Shelbyville:  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Michael 
Ruch,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville: 
assigned  to  54  Co.,  D.  B. ;  later  to  Wagon  Train  Co.  Xo. 
3  of  O.  M.  C.  Remount  319  at  Camp  Taylor.  Ky. :  in 
training  11  mos.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  May  17,  1919. 

10.  RUCKREIGEL,  HERBERT  Private 
Shelbyville.                                                                 U.   S.    (luards 

r.orn  Aug.  18,  1889,  Shelbyville;  son  Mrs.  Anna  Ruckrie- 
gel,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1917,  Shelbyville;  sent  to 
Camp  Taylor;  assigned  to  Bty.  D,  327  F.  A.;  trfd.  Camp 
Pike,  Ark.,  346  Inf.,  Xov.  1917;  sent  as  Replacement  Mar. 
1918,  to  Camp  Green,  Charlotte.  X.  C.  and  then  to  Ft. 
Xiagra.  Youngstown,  X.  T.  :  in  Tune,  1918,  to  Guard  Co. 
(U.  S.  Guards),  then  to  Hayonne,  X.  J.,  Aug.  1918, 
guarding  oil  tanks;  there  three  mos.;  sent  to  Metuchen. 
X.  '/..,  guarding  Amm.  plant;  sent  to  Camp  Dix,  then  to 
Grant  and  Dis.  Jan.  ?.S,  1919. 

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1.  RUFF.    HARMON7    L.  Captain 
Shelbyville,   111.                                              130   Inf.,  33   Div. 

Born  Xov.  27,  1889,  Shelbyville;  son  George  and  Sophia 
Ruff,  Shelbyville;  mar.  Aug.  11,  1917,  Bertha  Herron : 
stenographer  and  accountant;  enl.  Springfield,  111.,  June 
26,  1916,  4th  111.  Inf.  National  Guard;  assigned  to  Co.  H. ; 
promoted  Bn.  Sgt.  Maj.  July  1,  1916,  Camp  Wilson,  San 
Antonio,  Tex.;  Regt.  Sgt.  Maj.  Mar.  1,  1917,  Fort  Sheri- 
dan; attended  1st  O.  T.  C.  ;  com.  1st  Lt.  Inf.  111.  N.  G. 
July  15,  1917;  assigned  to  Co.  A;  Capt.  Aug.  8,  1918,  in 
France :  Platoon  and  Co.  Commander,  C.  Logan,  Tex. ; 
sailed  from  Hoboken  May  16,  1918,  transport  Agemem- 
non;  landed  Brest  May  24,  1918;  in  training  in  British 
area;  to  trenches  June  16,  1918;  in  trenches  5  mos ;  at 
British  Front,  Somme  Off.,  16  days;  American  Front; 
Meuse-Argonne,  St.  Mihiel  (Troyon  Sector)  ;  awarded 
certificate  of  meritorious  service  by  33  Div.  Com.;  Regt!. 
Adjt.,  130  Inf.,  from  July  21,  1918,  to  June  16,  1919.  Dis. 
C.  Grant  June  17,  1919. 

2.  RUFF,   NELSON   EDWARD  1st  Class    Private 
Strasburg                         Co.   C.,   124   M.  G.   Bn.,  33  Div. 

Born  April  19,  1899,  Strasburg;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles 
E.  Ruff,  Strasburg;  farmer;  enl.  June  13,  1917,  Spring- 
field; army;  assigned  to  Co.  C,  5th  III,  Inf.;  training  in 
machine  gun  work  in  Camp  Logan  11  months;  sailed  from 
Hoboken  May  16,  1918;  transport  Mt.  Vernon ;  landed 
Brest  May  24,  1918;  in  trenches  from  July  2-Nov.  11, 
1918;  at  Somme,  Argonne,  St.  Mihiel,  Troyon,  Verdun, 
Meuse ;  in  hospital,  appenditicis ;  sent  to  U.  S.  with  Cas- 
ual Co.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  16,  1919;  promoted  to  1st 
Class  Private  Sept.  15,  1917. 

3.  RUNKEL,    ARTHUR    ORLANDO  Coxswain 
Shelbyville                                                                 U.    S.    Navy 

Born  Sept.  14,  1896,  Shelbyville;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  F. 
Runkel,  Shelbyville;  bookkeeper;  enl.  June  20,  1918.  De- 
catur ;  navy;  stationed  in  the  5th  Reg.  Camp  Perry, 
Great  Lakes,  111.,  throughout  7l/2  months  of  service;  enl. 
as  Seaman  Second  Class ;  promoted  Seaman ;  later  to  Cox- 
swain ;  appointed  Assistant  Company  Commander  (tem- 
porary rating)  ;  held  appointment  until  released. 

4.  RUSSELL,    HARRY    EVERETT  Private 
Trowbridge,   111.                               Development   Bn.   No.    3 

Born  Jan.  19,  1892,  Tuscola ;  son  John  Russell,  Trow- 
bridge; fanner;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  Camp 
Taylor;  assigned  to  54th  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade;  trfd. 
Aug.  31,  1918,  to  Development  Bn.  No.  3,  Camp  Beaure- 
gard ;  in  training  5  months.  Dis.  April  7,  1919;  in  hos- 
pital, influenza. 

5.  RUWE,    EDWIN  Strasburg,  111. 
Born   June   29,    1894,    Strasburg;    son    Mr.    and    Mrs.    Wm. 
Ruwe,  Strasburg;   farmer;   enl.  June  27,    1918,  Shelbyville: 
sent  to  54  Co.,  D.  B.,  Camp  Taylor.     Dis.  C.  Taylor,   May 
17,   1919. 

6.  SALMONS,   GEORGE  Sergeant 
Shelbyville,   111.                             Co.   H,    130  Inf.,   33    Div. 

Born  1896,  Shelby  Co.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  S.  Salmons; 
farmer;  enl.  June  7,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf., 
33  Div.;  promoted  to  Cpl.,  Camp  Logan,  and  Sergeant  at 
Brest ;  in  training  at  Logan  7  mos. ;  sailed  from  Hoboken 
May  16,  1918;  transport  Agamemnon;  landed  Brest  May 
26,  1918;  in  trenches  from  July,  1918,  until  Nov.  1 1  ;  in 
hospital,  mumps.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  30,  1919. 

7.  SAMMONS,  CLARENCE  WESLEY  Private 
Pana,   111.                                         Co.    H,    130   Inf.,    33    Div. 

Born  Nov.  12,  1898,  Pana;  son  Geo.  Sammons,  Pana; 
miner;  enl.  Sept.  4,  1917,  Shelbyville;  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33 
Div.;  in  training  8  mos.,  Camp  Logan;  sailed  May  16, 
1918;  landed  May  26;  in  trenches  4  mos.;  at  Meuse-Ar- 
gonne Off.,  Somme,  Troyon  Sector,  Army  of  Occupation ; 
runner  and  messenger.  Dis.  at  C.  Grant  May  31,  1919. 

8.  SAMPSON,  MAYNARD  1st  Cl.   Private 
Stonington,    111.                            Co.    H,    130    Inf.,    33    Div. 

Served  as  runner  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.;  in  training 
at  C.  Logan;  sailed  May  16,  1918,  from  Hoboken;  trans- 
port Agamemnon;  landed  May  26,  1918,  at  Brest;  in  ac- 
tive service  with  Co.  H. ;  returned  to  U.  S.  and  Dis.  at  C. 
Grant  in  May,  1919. 

9.  SANNER,    WM.   A.  Private 
Moweaqua,   111.              46   Co.,    12    Bn.,    160   Depot  Brig. 

Born  Feb.  7,  1896,  Moweaqua;  son  Wm.  P.  Sanner ; 
married  May  29,  1917,  Jessie  Ann  Wooters,  dau.  Frank 
Wooters;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed to  46  Co.,  12  Bn.,  169  Depot  Brigade,  C.  Custer, 
Mich.;  in  training  3  mos.  in  infantry  at  C.  Custer;  in  hos- 
pital, influenza.  Dis.  C.  Custer  Nov.  26,  1918. 

10.  SARVER,  CHARLES  EDGAR  Seaman 
Hentoii,   111.                                                              U.   S.    Navy 

Born  Dec.  28,  1899,  Chicago;  son  Ed.  Sarver ;  farmer; 
enl.  May  10,  1918,  Chicago;  Navy;  assigned  U.  S.  S. 
Kentucky  for  training ;  in  training  2  mos. ;  sailed  from 
N.  Y.,  LT.  S.  S.  West  Lianga  (transport)  ;  crossed  4 
times.  Dis.  Gt.  Lakes  N.  Tr.  Station  July  3,  1919;  sub- 
ject to  recall.  Brother  died  in  service. 

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1.     SAPP,   FRANK  LAWSON  Seaman 

Cowden,   111.  U.  S.   Navy 

Born  July  8,  1900,  Cowden,  111.  son  Mrs.  G.  R.  Sapp, 
Cowden ;  student;  enl.  Aug.  1,  1918,  at  St.  Louis;  went 
in  training  at  Mare  Island,  California;  Navy:  promoted 
from  Apprentice  Seaman  to  Seaman:  in  West  Coast  Ser- 
vice on  tug  6'A  mos.  Dis.  Great  Lakes  Feb.  20,  1919. 


SAPP,   RALPH   F. 
Cowden,  111. 


Seaman 
V.  S.  Navy 


Horn  Jan.  3,  1899,  Cowden  ;  son  Mrs.  G.  R.  Sapp,  Cowden  ; 
lineman  ;    enl.    Aug.    1,    1918,    St.    Louis,    Mo. ;    Xavy ;    as- 


,        .  ,          . 

signed  to  Mare  Island,  Cal. ;  in  training  6  mos.  JO  days; 
trfd.  to  Great  Lakes,  III.,  Feb.  16,  1919.  Dis.  Feb.  "21, 
1919,  at  Gt.  Lakes. 


3.     SCARBOROUGH,   WALTER   E.  Captain 

Chicago,    111.  Camp  Grant-Camp  Custer 

Son  E.  J.  Scarborough,  Shelby  ville ;  physician;  commis- 
sioned Captain  1st  <>.  T.  C.  Ft.  Sheridan,  summer  of 
1917:  served  lity.  commander  and  instructor  in  ().  T.  C. 
at  Camp  Grant  and  C'amp  Custer.  Dis.  early  in  summer 
of  1919. 


4.     SCIIABBING,  JOSEPH   H.  Private 

Sigel.    111.  Aux.  Remount  319 

Sent  to  C'.  Taylor  from  Shelby  ville  June  28,  1918,  and 
assigned  to  54  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade;  few  weeks  later 
trfd.  to  Aux.  Remount  Station  319  and  served  there  until 
discharged. 


SCHNEIDER,   CARROLL  F.  Private 

Strasburg,    111.  Co.    G,  4th   Div.,   Amn.  T'r. 

Enlisted  at  Jefferson  liarracks,  June  27,  1917;  assigned  to 
C.  Robinson.  Wis. ;  driver  of  field  artillery  and  extra  gun 
ner;  sailed  June  20,  1918;  arrived  in  France  June  30.  1918; 
trfd.  to  Co.  G,  4th  Div.,  Amn.  Tr.  ;  was  slightly  wounded: 
left  France  April  12,  1919;  arrived  in  U.  S.  A.  April  19th. 
Dis.  C.  Grant  May  6,  1919. 


5.     SCUM  ITT,    OTTO    H.  Corporal 

Strasburg,    III.  Remount   Station   319 

Horn  Oct.  17,  1893,  Shumway ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph 
Schmitt,  Strasburg;  farmer;  assigned  June  27,  1918,  to 
54  Co.,  159  D.  B.,  Camp  Taylor,  later"  trfd.  to  Remount 
Station  319;  promoted  to  Corporal;  in  training  11  mos. 
when  discharged. 


SCRIBNER,  JOHN 
Findlay,    111. 


Private 
A,  59th   Inf. 

:d 


Enl.  Sept.  19,    1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  C.  Taylor:  served 
in  Co.   A,  59  Inf.   overseas ;   wounded  at  Chateau  Thierry  ; 
never    returned    to    outfit ;    served    in    S.    O.    S.    and    ~ 
home   in   spring  of    1919. 


came 


7.  SCIIUI.TZ,    EDWARD  L.  Corporal 
Stewardson,  111.                                           3rd  Anti-Air  Craft 

Horn  March  13,  1884,  Stewardson;  son  Henry  Schultz ; 
roller  in  steel  mill;  enl.  Feb.  7,  1918.  Anderson,  Ind. : 
assigned  to  Co.  2,  159  Depot  lirig. ;  trfd.  to  Co.  D,  141 
Machine  Gun,  Camp  Beauregard  ;  training  4  mos. ;  sailed 
June  4,  1918;  transport  Kirsk ;  landed  Brest  June  19;  in 
trenches  4  mos. ;  at  Switzerland  Front  in  every  battle  un- 
til after  armistice ;  2  days  before  going  to  front  trfd.  to 
3rd  Anti-Air  Craft.  Dis.  Taylor  Jan.  28,  1919. 

8.  SCHWARTZ,  RALPH  1st   Class    Private 
Findlay,   111.  Q.   M.   Corps 

Born  Nov.  23,  1899,  Findlay;  son  Mrs.  C.  Schwartz;  mar- 
ried Aug.  31,  1914,  Evelyn  F.  Renshaw,  dau.  Mrs.  Fanny 
Renshaw,  Chicago ;  merchant;  enl.  July  25,  1918,  N.  V. 
City;  assigned  Quartermaster  Corps;  promoted  to  1st  Cl. 
Private;  clerical  work;  in  hospital,  influenza.  Dis.  N.  V. 
City  Feb.  18,  1919. 


9.     SCIIWENKER,   ROY 
Shelbyville,    111. 


E. 


Acting   Sergeant 
Remount    Station    319 


Born  Jan.  23,  1896,  near  Shelbyville;  son  Ed  A.  Schwen- 
ker ;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  Army;  as- 
signed to  54  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade,  C.  Taylor;  in  train- 
ing 10  mos.  15  days;  served  most  of  time  in  Remount  Sta- 
tion 319,  C'.  Taylor.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  April  15,  1919. 

10.     SCHWERDT,  ADOLPH  G.  1st  Cl.  Private 

Sigel,    111.  Bat.   D,   137   F.  A.,  38  Div. 

Enl.  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Camp  Shelby, 
Bat.  I).  137.  F.  A.,  38  Div.;  sailed  Hoboken  Oct.  6,  1918; 
landed  Liverpool  Oct.  17,  1918;  left  Brest,  France,  on 
I".  S.  S.  Geo.  Washington,  Dec.  15,  1918;  arrived  in  Ho- 
boken, N.  L,  Dec.  23,  1918.  Dis.  Ft.  Harrison,  Ind., 
Jan.  14,  1919. 

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1.  SCHWERDT,   HARRY  Private 
Sigel,    111.                                    Co.    18,    1st   M.   &    M.   Regt. 

Kill.  Sept.  5,  1917,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  assigned  Co.  18.  1st 
M.  and  M.  Regt.,  Camp  Funston  ;  trfd  C.  Hancock;  from 
there  C.  Merritt;  from  there  sailed  Feb.  9,  1917.  Dis.  at 
Camp  Dodge,  la.,  June  30,  1919. 

2.  SCRIBXER,   MAURICE  Horse   Shoer 
Moweaqua,  111.                                               26  Co.  20   Engrs. 

Called  into  service  from  Moweaqua,  111.;  served  in  26 
Co.  20th  Engrs.,  overseas  as  a  horse  shoer.  Dis.  at  C. 
Grant,  111. 

3.  SCROGGIXS,   EVERETT  Private 
Findlay,    111.                                        Aviation    Field,    Detroit 

Horn  July  23,  1893,  Macon  Co.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
Scroggins;  farmer;  elll.  Sept.  6,  1918,  Shelhyville  ;  as- 
signed to  160th  Depot  Brigade,  C.  Custer  ;  trfd.  Oct.  25, 
to  Ft.  Wayne,  Detroit,  Mich.,  into  Signal  Corps;  9  days 
later  Aviation  Field  at  Detroit.  Dis.  there  Jan.  23,  1918. 

4.  SCROGGIXS,    LUTHER  Private 
Herrick,   111.                                        Co.   B,  21st  M.   G.   Bn. 

Enl.  May  10th,  Oakley,  111.;  assigned  to  Co.  B,  21  Ma- 
chine Gun  Bn.,  letT.  I!ks.  ;  went  to  France  Nov.  8,  1918. 
Dis.  June  27  at  C.  Grant. 

5.  SILLARS,    AXGUS  Corporal 
Tower   Hill,   111.                           187    Co.    15    Reg.    Marine    C. 

Born  March  22,  1888,  in  Xew  Jersey;  son  James  Sillars  ; 
farmer;  enl.  June  7,  1917,  at  Pana  ;  Marines  ;  promoted 
Cpl.  at  Ouantico,  Va.  ;  in  training  at  Paris  Island,  S.  C.  ; 
sharpshooter;  assigned  1  M.  Mobile  Art.  Force;  went  to 


sharpshooter;    assigned 
San    Domingo   in   Feb. 


1919. 


Field   Artillery 


7th   M.   (',. 


SELLERS,  RAY 

Windsor,    111. 

Entered  service  from  South  Dakota;  in  service  overseas  in 

Field  Artillery  ;  one  brother  Otho  also  in  service  overseas. 

SEXERUS.   F. 

Cowden,   111. 

Served  with  7th  M.  G.    Bn. 

6.  SEVERE,  LAWREXCE  ROY  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                                         11    Co.    Marine    Corps 

Born  Jan.  21,  1893,  Shelby  Co.;  mar.  July  15,  1917,  Urexie 
McGilligan,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  enl.  July  26,  1917, 
Springfield;  Marines;  assigned  11  Co.,  Marine  ]!ks.,  Paris 
Island,  S.  C.  ;  in  training  6  mos.  ;  sailed  Charleston,  S.  C., 
Jan.  17,  1918;  transport  U.  S.  S.  Kittery  ;  landed  Guanta- 
namo  Bay,  Cuba,  Jan.  21;  guard  duty;  returned  for  spe- 
cial discharge  to  Xorfolk,  Va.  Dis.  May  24,  1919. 

7.  SEVERE,  WALTER  S.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                                             Co.    E,    139   F.   A 

Enl.  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Co.  E,  139  Field  Artillery, 
C.  Shelby  ;  went  to  France  Oct.  5,  1918.  Dis.  Ft.  Benj. 
Harrison,  Indiana. 

8.  SEWARD,  ROLL  Corporal 
Stewardson,    111.                Co.    A,    22nd    Engrs.,    4th    Bn. 

Born  Jan.  2,  1894,  Stewardson;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  L. 
Seward,  Stewardson;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville; assigned  to  54  Co.,  159  Depot  Brig.,  C.  Taylor; 
trfd.  to  Co.  K.  22  Engrs.,  Ft.  Bcnj.  Harrison,  Ind.  ;  sailed 
C.  Merritt,  Sept.  1,  1918;  landed  Liverpool  Sept.  13; 
wounded  Jan.  20,  1919,  at  Labenville,  Fr.  ;  injured  back; 
in  hospital  ;  work,  building  railroad  ;  returned  as  casual, 
June  6,  1919,  at  Camp  Merritt  and  trfd.  to  Ft.  Sheridan, 
111.,  June  16,  1919;  still  in  hospital  at  Ft.  Sheridan. 

9.  SEXSOX,   CHARLES  H. 
Shelbyville,    111. 

Kill.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  3,  1918;  sent  to  Grant;  in  Co.  II, 
L.  S.  R.,  5th  Prov.  Tr.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Sept.  18,  1918. 

10.  SEXSOX,  HARRY  Private 
Gays,  111.                                                                   O.   M.  Corps 

Born  Xov.  6,  1894,  Windsor,  111.  :  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C. 
P.  Sexson,  Gays,  111.;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville: assigned  to  46  Co.,  12  Bn.,  160  Depot  Brig.,  C. 
Custer;  in  training  4Yi  mos.;  trfd.  Oct.  30  to  Tohnston, 
Fla.  ;  Dec.  16  to  C.  Taylor.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  Dec.  22,  1918. 

SEXSOX,  WARREX   E.  Shelbyville,   111. 

Served  with  327  F.  A.  as  Radio  Sergeant. 

SHARP,   LAWRENCE  Vera,   111. 

SHARP,  TICK  Private  First  Class 

Windsor,    III.  105th  Field   Signal   Bn. 

Lineman;  born  Aug.  8,  1890;  son  late  F.  G.  Sharp,  Wind- 
sor; married  Edith,  dau.  T.  II.  Peterson,  Windsor,  April 
30,  1919;  enl.  at  Mattoon  July  16,  1917;  assigned  314  Field 
Signal  I'n..  89  Div.,  Camp  Funston,  Kan.  ;  trained  8  mos  ; 
trf.  April  30  to  30  Div.;  sailed  May  27,  1918;  at  Voor- 
mezeele,  Canal  sector,  Ypres,  Hindenburg  line,  St.  Qtien- 
tin,  Tunnel;  gassed  Sept.  26.  Dis.  C.  Grant  April  17,  1919. 

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I.     SHARP,   VIRGIL  Private 

Windsor,   111.  Co.   H,    130    Inf.,    33    Div. 

Enl.  June  22,  1916,  Shelbyville,  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.; 
in  training  at  C.  Logan;  sailed  from  Iloboken,  transport 
Agamemnon,  May  16,  1918 ;  in  active  service  with  Co. 
from  last  of  luly  until  armistice ;  returned  and  Dis.  C. 
(".rant  May  31,  1919. 

J.     SIIARROCK.   DAVID  Sergeant 

Stonington,  111.  Co.  H.  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Member  of  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. ;  in  training  at  C'. 
Logan,  Texas;  sailed  from  Iloboken  May  16,  1918;  landed 
I'rest  May  24,  1918;  in  active  service  overseas  with  Co.; 
served  as  Automatic  Rifle  Sgt.,  and  Platoon  Comdr.  Dis. 
in  spring  1919  at  C.  Grant. 

3.     SIIARROCK,    ROY  Corporal 

Stonington,    111.  Co.  II,   130   Inf.,  33   Div. 

Member  Co.  H,  1 30  Inf.,  33  Div. ;  in  training  C".  Logan. 
Tex. ;  sailed  May  16,  1918,  from  Iloboken ;  transport 
Agamemnon ;  in  active  service  with  C'o.  as  sniper ;  re- 
turned to  L'.  S.  and  Dis.  at  C.  Grant  in  spring  1919. 


Private 

119th  Inf..  30  Div. 
son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
1918, 


4.  SHAW,   GEORGE   T. 
Tower    Hill,    111. 

Horn  Aug.  30,  1895,  Shelby  Co. ; 
George  Shaw.  Tower  Hill;  farmer:  called  Feb.  22, 
Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Co.  18,  159  Depot  lirig.,  C.  Tay- 
lor; trfd.  March  24  to  C.  Sevier,  S.  C.,  Hq.  Co.  119  Inf.. 
30  Div.;  in  training  3J4  mos.  as  37  M.  M.  gunner;  sailed 
X.  Y.  May  11,  1918,  on  Ascania ;  landed  Liverpool  May 
27 ;  trained  at  Lenlingham ;  in  trenches  at  Voormezeele, 
Ypres,  St.  Qucntin,  major  operations  on  Somme,  Belli- 
court ;  wounded,  gassed  at  Hetlicourt ;  in  hospital  at 
Trouville,  France ;  returned  with  30  Div.  Dis.  C.  Grant 
April  14. 

5.  SHAW,   HARRY    P.  Seaman   2d   Class 
Shelbyville,   111.  V.   S.    Xavy 

Born  Aug.  30,  1899,  Shelbyville;  son  Emmett  Shaw, 
Shelbyville :  enl.  June  6,  1917,  Peoria,  111.;  assigned  U. 
S.  S.  Vermont  Nov.  5,  1917;  made  trip  to  Valpariaso, 
Chile,  and  returned  to  Hampton  Roads;  trfd.  Phila.  Navy 
Yard  and  then  to  Hampton  Roads;  sailed  Jan.  9,  1919, 
from  Norfolk  to  Brest,  France;  transport  duty;  made  4 
trips  to  Brest  and  return.  Dis.  Great  Lakes,  July  9,  1919. 


SHEPPARI),  CLAYTON 


Moweaqua,  111. 


SHE1.LEBARGER,    JAMES    M.  Herrick,    III. 

Enl.  May  29,  1918,  at  New  Orleans,  G'a. ;  vocation  auto 
mechanic :  discharged  on  acct.  physical  disability  Nov.  13, 
1918,  at  C.  Gordon. 

6.  SHELLENBERGER,  WALTER  R.       Tower  Hill,  111. 
Enl.    Shelbyville  June   28,    1919;   sent   to    Camp   Taylor,   54 
Co..   159  I).   B. 

7.  SHERWOOD,   GUY   E.  Private 
Tower   Hill,    111.                                        327    F.   A.,   84    Div. 

Horn  Sept.  1,  1889,  Tower  Hill ;  son  James  Sherwood; 
farmer;  enl.  Sept.  19,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Hq. 
Co.,  327  F.  A.,  C.  Taylor;  trfd.  to  West  Point,  Ky. ;  in 
training  1  yr. ;  sailed  from  N.  Y.  Sept.  8,  1919;  transport 
Orduna ;  landed  at  Liverpool  Sept.  21,  1918;  in  training 
at  De  Souge.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Feb.  19,  1919. 

8.  SHEWMAKE,    WALTER  Private 
Windsor,    III.                                   Co.    H,    130   Inf.   33    Div. 

Enl.  June  4,  1917,  Shelbyville;  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.; 
in  training  at  C'.  Logan;  sailed  from  N.  Y.  May  16,  1918; 
landed  at  Bordeaux  May  24 ;  in  Meuse-Argonne  Off., 
Somme-Amiens  Sector,  Troyon  Sector,  Army  of  Occupa- 
tion; sailed  from  Brest  May  12,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant 
May  31. 

9.  SHIPLEY,    GEORGE   E.  Bugler 
Lakewood,  111.                                           Hq.  Co.,  327  F.  A. 

Horn  Dec.  24,  1897;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  E.  Shipley, 
Lakewood;  clerk;  enl.  Sept.  19,  1917,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed to  327  F.  A.,  C.  Taylor;  promoted  to  Bugler  at  C. 
Taylor ;  trfd.  to  West  Point,  to  C.  Mills ;  in  tr.  1  yr. ; 
sailed  from  N.  Y.  City  Sept.  8,  1918;  transport  Orduna; 
landed  Liverpool  Sept.  22,  1918;  in  training  De  Souge, 
France.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Feb.  19,  1919. 

10.  SHIPLEY.   OTTO  E.  Bugle  Instructor 
Lakewood,    111. 

Born  May  29,  1894,  Louisville,  111.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Harsel  E.  Shipley,  Lakewood;  trainman;  enl.  Sept.  18, 
1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Battery  D.  327  Field  Ar- 
tillery, C.  Taylor;  promoted  to  Corporal  Oct.  1917;  to 
Bugle  Instructor  Nov.  1917;  trfd.  to  West  Point  June 
28,  1918;  in  training  16  mos.;  sailed  Hoboken  Sept.  8, 
1918:  transport  Orduna;  landed  Liverpool  Sept.  22,  1918; 
in  Camp  de  Souge.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  Feb.  2,  1919. 

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1.     SHOAF,   EARL  Cook 

Shelbyville,    111.  Co.   H,    130   Inf.,    33    Div. 

Knl.  May  3,  1917,  Shelbyville;  Co.  H.,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.; 
vocation,  waiter;  at  Meuse-Argonne  Off.,  Somme- Amiens 
Sector,  Troyon  Sector,  Army  of  Occupation.  Dis.  C. 
Grant  May  30,  1919. 


2.     SIIKIDE,    NOAH 

Findlay,    III. 
Born     Feb.     13,     1894; 
fanner:    en!.    Feb.    23, 


W.  Bugler. 

Hq.  Co.,  329  Inf.,  83  Div. 
son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Milo  Sliride ; 
1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Depot 


llrignde,  C'.  Taylor;  promoted  to  Bugler ;  in  training  2 
mos. ;  sailed  from  X.  Y.  July  12,  1918;  landed  Liverpool 
Aug.  1,  1918;  in  trenches  34  days;  at  Argonne  with  Hq. 
Co..  329  Inf.,  83  Div. ;  wounded  twice,  shrapnel  shell  in 
back  and  finger;  in  hospital,  wounds  and  measles.  Dis. 
<'.  Grant  Feb.  23.  1919. 

3.     SHUTT,    VERI.  Bat.    Sgt.    Major 

Shelbyville,   111.  Camp   Hq.   C.   Taylor 

Horn  July  6,  1895,  Vermillion  Co.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R. 
P.  Shutt:  bookkeeper;  enl.  June  25,  1918,  Springfield;  as- 
signed 33  Co.,  9  Bat.,  159  Depot  Brigade;  trfd.  mo.  later 
to  Ilq.  F.  A.  Replacement  Depot;  Jan.  15,  1919,  to  Camp 
Hq. ;  promoted  to  Cpl.,  to  Sgt.,  to  Bat.  Sgt.  Major;  in 
hospital,  mumps.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  May  23,  1919. 

•4.     SIDEXER,   HARRISOX   G.  Private 

Pana,    111.  214    Engrs.,    Co.    D,    14   Div. 

Horn  Oct.  29,  1888,  Rochester,  111.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
J.  C,.  Sidcner,  Pana;  married  July  3,  1918.  Edith  Ger- 
trude Welch;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed 214  Engrs.,  Co.  D,  14  Div.,  C.  Custer ;  in  trenches 
43-5  mos.;  in  hospital,  influenza.  Dis.  Jan.  23,  1919,  at 
C.  Custer. 

5.     SILLS,  GEORGE  1st  Cl.  Private 

Shelbyville,   111.  327   F.   A.    Bat.    D. 

Born  Xov.  5,  1886,  Greensburg,  Ind. ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Wm.  Sills,  Shelbyville;  railroad  conductor;  enl.  Sept.  18, 
1917,  Taylorville;  Army;  assigned  327  F.  A.,  Bat.  B,  84 
Div.;  promoted  1st  Cl.  Private;  trained  for  (uumer  17 
mos.;  sailed  from  X.  V.  Sept.  8,  1918;  landed  Liverpool 
Sept.  21  ;  in  Camp  de  Souge.  Dis.  Camp  Grant  Feb.  19, 
1919. 


6.     SILLS,  ROY 
Shelbyville,  111. 


Private 
Bat.   F,  308  F.  A. 


Born   Aug.   31,   1891,  Shelby   Co.;    son   Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm. 

Sills,    Shelbyville;    R.    R.    brakeman  ;    enl.    Apr.    30,    1918, 

Shelbyville;   assigned  to  Hq.   Co.   308   F.   A.;   trfd.  to   Bat. 

F,   308   F.   A.   in   France;   in   trenches  about   3 

fr 

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.  . 

,  .       .     n      rance;    n   trences  aout        mos;    sailed 

from    Hoboken    May    27,    1918;    Cedric  ;    landed    Liverpool 
une    8.    1918;    at    front    about    70    days;    at    St.     Mihiel. 
euse-Argonne;    reg.   received   3   citations.      Dis.    C.    Grant 
May  27,   1919. 


7.  SIMPSOX,   LUTHER   F.  2nd   Lieut. 
Moweaqua,   111.                                      C.   A.   C.   Ft.   Monroe 

Born  Oct.  18,  1888,  Fincastle,  Va. ;  son  Mrs.  J.  B.  Simp- 
son, Moweaqua;  married  Ivan  Faye  Tate  Nov.  28  1917; 
"before  enlistment  was  instr.  in  airplane  eng.  U.  S.  School 
of  Military  Aeronautics,  U.  of  111.;  enl.  July  11,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  assigned  Coast  Artillery  School  Troop;  com- 
missioned 2nd  Lt.  Nov.  22,  1918,  at  Ft.  Monroe,  Va. ;  in 
trenches  12  weeks;  particular  work,  instr.  in  motot 
trucks;  in  hospital,  influenza.  Dis.  Nov.  22,  1918,  at  Ft. 
Monroe. 

8.  SIMS,    IRA   GLEN  Petty    Officer 
Shelbyville,    111.  Great   Lakes 

Son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  A.  Sims;  enl.  June,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville; assigned  Great  Lakes;  Petty  Officer.  Dis.  Feb. 
1919,  Great  Lakes. 

9.  SKAGGS,   FRED  1st   Cl.    Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                              Co.   H,    130  Inf.,   33    Div. 

Born  1896,  Louisville,  Ky. ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B. 
Skaggs.  Shelbyville;  painter;  enl.  Oct.  3,  1917,  Shelby- 
ville; Co.  H;  in  training  at  C.  Logan;  sailed  from  Ho- 
boken May  16;  landed  Brest  May  24;  served  as  grenadier 
with  Co. ;  in  hospital ;  returned  with  Casual  Co.  Dis.  at 
C.  Grant. 

10.  SKIDMORE,  ELI  W.  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                                            Co.   K,   22    Engrs. 

Born  Feb.  27,  1893,  Moultrie  Co.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Perry  Skidmore,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  enl.  June  28.  1918, 
Shelby vijle:  assigned  to  54  Co.,  159  D.  B.,  C.  Taylor; 
trfd.  3  weeks  later  to  Co.  K,  22  Engrs.,  Ft.  Benj.  Harri- 
son, Ind. ;  in  training  2  mos. ;  sailed  from  Hoboken  Sept. 
1,  1918;  landed  Liverpool  Sept.  13,  1918;  went  to  Brest, 
St.  Aignan,  then  to  Toul  Sector,  operating  and  maintain- 
ing narrow  gauge  railway  ;  under  fire  but  not  in  trenches ; 
in  hospital  6  weeks,  influenza  and  pneumonia  following 
gas  in  dugout.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Jan.  20,  1919. 

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SIIIPMAX,  OSCAR  O.  1st   Cl.   Fireman 

Shelbyville,  111.  U.  S.   Xavy 

Born  Feb.  9,  1885,  Shelbyville;  son  Mr.  L.  N.  Shipman. 
Clarkton,  Mo.;  mar.  1917,  Ethel  Lang;  one  son;  farmer: 
enl.  May  1,  1917,  Peoria ;  navy;  assigned  to  U.  S.  S. 
Bridge;  served  on  ship  all  time  until  discharged  Aug.  14, 
1918,  at  Great  Lakes;  in  hospital  10  days;  promoted  from 
3  Cl.  Fireman  to  2nd  Cl.  to  1st  Cl. 

1.  SLATER.  CECIL  WILMER  1st  Cl.   Private 
Oconee,    111.                                         Co.   A,    154    Inf.,   39    Div. 

Born  Dec.  6,  1892,  Oconee;  son  Otis  and  Catherine  Sla- 
ter; auto  business;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville:  as- 
signed Co.  A,  154  Inf.,  39  Div.;  in  training  6  weeks; 
sailed  Sept.  8,  1918;  landed  Brest  Sept.  22;  leg  wound  by 
steel  rooting  fall  working  on  deck  in  Brest.  Dis.  C. 
Grant  Feb.  27,  1919,  as  1st  Class  Private. 

2.  SLATER    CLAUDE  J.  Private 
Oconee,    111.                                                    Armour    Institute 

Born  Apr.  6,  1896,  Oconee,  111.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Otis 
Slater,  Oconee;  mar.  Ethel  Lawson  Mar.  1918;  one  son 
born  Jan.  8,  1919;  auto  dealer;  enl.  Sept.  1918,  Shelby- 
ville: assigned  to  Armour  Inst.,  Technical  Auto  Training 
EUR.  Dept. ;  in  tr.  2  weeks.  Dis.  Oct.  1,  1918. 

3.  SLIFER.   MARION   E.  Private- 
Assumption,    111.                                            41st    F.    Artillery 

Born  Nov.  25,  1895,  Shelby  Co.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
Slifer,  Tower  Hill;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville: assigned  to  C.  Taylor;  assigned  to  Field  Artillery 
Replacement  of  41  Div.;  in  training  4  mos.  at  C.  Taylor: 
sailed  from  X.  V.  Oct.  28,  1918;  transport  Kirsk :  landed 
Brest  Xov.  11,  1918;  in  C.  Hunt;  returned  with  Casual 
Co.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  26,  1919. 

4.  SLIFER,   WILSE   ELMER  1st   Cl.    Private 
IK-rrick,    111.                                            Co.    K,    22nd    Engrs. 

Born  Oct.  13,  1895,  Fancher ;  son  Lewis  Slifer;  farmer; 
enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  C.  Taylor;  as- 
signed 54  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade;  trfd.  luly  20  to  Co. 
K,  22  Engrs.,  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison;  sailed  Sept.  1.  1918. 
Hritish  transport;  landed  Liverpool  Sept.  13;  at  Melise- 
Argonne.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  July  3,  1919. 

5.  SLIFER,   THOMAS    T.  1st   Cl.    Private 
Shelbyville,    III.                                                  Co.    H,     130    Inf. 

Horn  1880,  Cowdcn ;  farmer;  enl.  June  6,  1917,  Shelby- 
ville ;  in  Co.  H  ;  in  training  with  Co.  H  for  I'D  mos. ;  sailed 
from  Hoboken  May  16,  1918;  transport  Agamemnon: 
landed  Brest  May  24;  served  with  Co.  H  until  shortly 
before  armistice  signed,  then  trfd.  to  33  Div.  108th  M.  P.; 
made  1st  Class  Private  Xov.  14;  slightly  gassed.  Dis. 
at  Grant  June  2.  1919. 

6.  SLOAN,   R.   C.  Private 
Moweaqua,  111.                                             13th  Bet.  Hospital 

Born  Tan.  13,  1895,  Moweaqua;  son  Mrs.  Salome  Sloan, 
Assumption;  farmer;  enl.  Tune  27,  1918,  at  Shelbyville; 
assigned  54  Co.  24th  Tr.  Bat.  159  Depot  Brigade,  C.  Tay- 
lor; trfd.  Tuly  11,  1918.  to  13  Vet.  Hosp.,  C.  Lee.  Va. :  in 
training  11  mos.;  sailed  Oct.  28,  1918;  landed  Brest  Xov. 
9,  1918;  in  overseas  camp  at  St.  Aignan ;  in  hospital,  in- 
fluenza. Dis.  May  28,  1919,  at  Garden  City,  L.  I.,  X.  V. 

7.  SMITH.   AM  ACE   EARL  Stable  Sergeant 
Shelbyville,    111.                                   Hosp.    Del.    C.    Sevier. 

Born  June  16,  1838,  Shelbyville;  son  Mr.  Hollie  Smith, 
Shelbyville;  enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville:  assigned  to 
18  Co.,  159  D.  B..  C.  Taylor;  trfd.  in  March  to  30  Div. 
C.  Sevier:  rejected  for  overseas  first  time;  made  stable 
sergeant  June,  1918;  hospital  Det.,  a  driver  in  charge  of 
stable  at  Sevier;  in  hospital  several  short  periods,  gen. 
debility.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  Jan.  1,  1919. 

8.  SMITH,    CHARLES    D.  Private 
Crow  Agency,  Mont.                                 Co.   H,    130th  Inf. 

Born  Tan.  21,  1898,  Pana,  III.;  machinist;  son  Charles  and 
Anna  Smith,  Pana.  Enlisted  1917;  sent  to  Camp  Logan 
with  Co.  H,  130  Inf.  Dis.  at  Camp  Logan. 


Co.  H,   13'0th  Infantry 
33d  Division 


9.     SMITH,  LAWREXCE 

Xokomis,   111. 

Enl.  in  Co.  H,  June  5,  1917,  at  Shelbyville,  and  served 
through  with  the  Co.  except  a  short  time  in  hospital  in 
France.  On  roll  of  honor  of  33d  Div.  for  gallantry  in 
performance  of  duty  at  Marcheville  on  Xov.  10.  1918. 
Dis.  as  Corporal  with  Co.  H. 

10      SMITH,    OLIVER    STANLEY  Corporal 

Tower  Hill,   111.  2nd  Co.,  6   Onl.    Bn. 

Born  Oct  12,  1894,  Tower  Hill;  son  Russell  Smith; 
farmer;  enl.  Tan.  4,  1918,  Chicago;  assigned  Ordnance 
Tr  Sch.  U.  of  C.,  Chicago;  trfd.  to  Ord.  Sup.  Sch..  C. 
lackson;  trfd.  to  2nd  Co.  6  Ord.  Bn.,  Camp  Hancock; 
from  C.  Hancock  to  C.  Merritt;  in  tr.  8  mos.;  sailed  Aug. 
31,. 1918:  landed  Glasgow,  Sept.  13,  1918;  with  Ilq.  2nd 
Army  at  Toul  sector;  with  Chief  Ord.  Officer  of  2nd 
Army  at  Meuse-Argonne.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  28,  1! 

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1.  SMITH,    WALLACE    CLIFTON  Sergeant 
Pana,    111.                                                             70th    Engineers 

Horn  Oct.  12,  1892,  Shelby  Co.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mi- 
chael Smith,  Shelbyville;  truck  driver;  enl.  Tune  27,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  assigned  to  54  Co.,  159  D.  lirig.,  C.  Taylor; 
trfd.  July  21,  1918,  21  Eng.  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison;  Aug.  2, 
1918,  to  70  Engrs.,  Salt  Lake  City;  made  Cpl.  at  C. 
Taylor;  Sgt.  Ft.  Harrison  ;  in  tr.  7  mos.  Dis.  Jan.  7,  1919, 
at  C.  Grant.  Border  service  in  1916. 

2.  SMITH,   WILLIAM    H.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                               Co.   A.    154   Inf.,  39   Div. 

Born  March  5,  1895,  Shelbyville;  son  -  Wm.  H.  Smith, 
Shelbyville;  farmer;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed Depot  Brig.,  C.  Taylor;  trfd.  to  Co.  A,  154  Inf., 
39  Div.,  C.  lieauregarcl,  then  to  C.  Hill;  in  tr.  2'/2  mos; 
sailed  Sept.  15,  1918;  landed  Brest  Sept.  28,  1918.  Dis. 
June  12,  1919.  at  C.  Grant. 

3.  SMYSOR,    LAWRENCE    II.  1st    Cl.    Private 
Windsor,    111.                                               5th  Trench   Mortar 

Born.  Feb.  16,  1898,  Windsor;  son  Mr.  Jacob  Smysor ; 
student,  clerk;  enl.  May  10,  1918,  Indianapolis,  Ind. ;  as- 
signed 5th  Trench  Mortar;  in  tr.  6  weeks;  sailed  from 
Iloboken  July  21,  1918;  landed  Liverpool  Aug.  3,  1918; 
trenches  Oct.  21,  1918,  until  armistice;  at  Meuse-Ar- 
gonne;  promoted  to  1st  Class  Private.  Dis.  Apr.  4  at  C. 
Sherman. 

4.  SXAPP,   ROSCOE  RAYMOND  Captain 
Findlay,   111.                                         Bat.   B,   112   Field  Art. 

Horn  Dec.  13,  1889,  near  Findlay;  son  Charles  Snapp ; 
married  Sept.  22,  1917,  Kdith  Hamilton;  instr.  Uni.  of 
Illinois;  enl.  Nov.  8,  1915,  Urbana ;  1st  111.  F.  A.,  Battery 
F  (National  Guard)  ;  on  border  summer  of  1916;  attended 
1st  O.  T.  C.  Ft.  Sheridan;  commissioned  Capt.  F.  A.  Aug. 
15,  1917;  sailed  June  28,  1918;  landed  Liverpool  July  10, 
1918;  at  Toul  Sector;  no  important  battles;  particular 
work,  Comdg.  B  Battery,  112  F.  A.;  returned  to  U.  S. 
in  July,  1919,  as  casual.  Dis.  Aug.  16,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

5.  SNYDER,    MISS    MINNIE  Nurse 
Moweaqua,   111.                                          Army   Nurse   Corps 

Born  1891,  Moweaqua;  dau.  Mrs.  M.  E.  Snyder,  Mo- 
weaqua; nurse;  enl.  Aug.  1,  1918,  at  St.  Louis;  Army 
Nurse  Corps;  assigned  Base  No.  70  at  Camp  Logan; 
sailed  Nov.  28,  1918,  from  Iloboken;  transport  Mongo- 
lia; landed  Brest  Dec.  10,  1918;  had  charge  of  surgical 
ward  in  Allerey  and  spinal  meningitis  at  Toul ;  returned 
with  Casual  Co.  Dis.  June  19,  1919,  New  York. 

6.  SOLAND,    CLARENCE   O.  Private 
Windsor,  111.                                             328  Bn.  Tank  Corps 

Born  Dec.  12,  1886,  Boody,  111.;  married  Oct.  15,  1913, 
Nelle  E.  Gleason ;  enl.  May  25,  1918,  Decatur ;  assigned 
332  Bn.  Tank  Corps;  trfd.  328  Bn.  Tank  Corps;  in  tr. 
C.  Colt,  Gettysburg,  Pa. ;  Camp  Tobyhama,  Tobyhama, 
Pa.;  sailed  Sept.  25,  1918;  transport  Oxfordshire;  landed 
Liverpool  Oct.  8 ;  overseas  camp,  Chamberlain,  Langres, 
Fr. ;  served  as  Bugler.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Apr.  11,  1919. 

7.  SPRACKLEN,  CLARENCE     Carpenters  Mate  1st   Cl. 
Cowden.    111.  United   States   Navy 

Born  Oct.  17,  1889;  son  Robert  Spracklen,  Cowden;  wife 
dead;  one  dau.,  Violetta ;  farmer;  enl.  Dec.  12,  1917,  St. 
Louis;  Navy;  assigned  Great  Lakes;  trfd.  May  18  to 
Phila.  Naval  Station ;  trfd.  May  22,  Hoboken ;  sailed  to 
Brest  on  Leviathan;  to  Naval  Base  No.  19;  assigned  to 
Mine  Sweeper  U.  S.  S.  Courtney,  then  to  Lewes;  trfd. 
May  1,  1919,  to  Jupiter  (Collier);  sailed  Aug.  5,  1919; 
arrived  Norfolk  Aug.  18 ;  shipped  through  Panama  to 
Frisco  and  Seattle;  sent  to  St.  Louis  and  dis.  Oct.  3,  1919, 
as  Carpenters  Mate  1st  Class;  Leviathan  was  attacked  bv 
five  subs,  three  of  them  sunk. 

8.  SPRAGUE,  ORVAL  T.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                            139th   M.    G.    Bn.,   38    Div. 

Born  Dec.  7,  1894,  at  Falmouth ;  son  Isaac  Sprague ;  ma- 
chinist; enl.  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  Camp 
Shelby;  assigned  139  M.  G.  Bn.  38  Div.;  sailed  Hoboken 
Oct.  3,  1918;  transport  Karoa ;  landed  Liverpool  Oct.  14; 
work,  M.  G.  Instructor;  returned  with  159  Inf.  40  Div. 
Dis.  C.  Grant  Apr.  1919. 

9.  SPRAGUE,   RALPH  Corporal 
Shelbyville,  III.                               Co.  H,   130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Born  Apr.  4,  1893,  Falmouth;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Isaac 
Sprague,  Shelbyville;  bridge  worker;  enl.  May  24,  1917, 
Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H;  promoted  to  Cpl.  Dec.  1917,  at 
Logan:  in  training  10  mos;  Squad  Leader  (rifleman); 
sailed  from  Iloboken  on  Agamemnon;  landed  Brest  May 
24  ;  in  trenches  3  mos ;  at  Verdun,  Hamel,  Albert  Front, 
Somme ;  wounded  at  Verdun  Oct.  2  by  high  explosive  in 
shoulder  and  back,  40%  disability;  in  hospital  Oct.  2  to 
Jan.  29.  Dis..  Grant  Feb.  27 ;  awarded  total  disability  at 
St.  Louis  July,  1919. 

10.  STAAB,    MELVIN   A.  Wagoner 
Moweaqua,    III.                                                                 6    Infantry 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Jan.  8,  1918;  sent  to  C.  Taylor;  Feb.  15 
trfd.  C.  Forrest,  Ga. ;  assigned  6th  Inf.,  U.  S.  Reg.:  April 
10  sailed  from  Hoboken  for  Brest;  served  as  motorcycle 
courier;  after  armistice  in  Army  of  Occupation  until  July 
5,  1919,  when  returned  to  U.  S.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Julv  30, 
1919. 

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1.  STAEIILI,    FRED   WM.  Private 
Strasburg,    III.                                    Aux.    Remount    Station 

Horn  Feb.  27,  1891;  son  Mr.  and  -Mrs.  Fred  Staehli  : 
farmer;  ml.  June  27,  1918,  Shelby  ville  ;  sent  to  C.  Taylor: 
assigned  to  A.  R.  I).  Quartermaster  C'orps  ;  in  training  as 
carpenter  11  mos.  ;  in  hospital.  Dis.  May  17,  1919,  at  C. 
Taylor. 

2.  STAN'S  KERRY,    KARI.    FRANKLIN'  Sergeant 
Shi-lbyville,    III.                                Hq.    Co.    10    Inf.,    14    Div. 

Born  Dec.  24,  1892,  Shelby  ville  ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Har- 
rison Stansberry  ;  telegrapher;  enl.  May  29,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville;  sent  to  Ft.  Thomas.  Ky.  ;  trfd.  June  6  to  Ft.  Ilenj. 
Harrison;  July  26  trfd.  to  C.  Custer;  assigned  to  Hq. 
Co.,  10  Inf.,  14  Div.:  made  C'pl.  Aug.  16,  1918;  Sgt.  Oct. 
17,  1918;  in  tr.  7  mos.  2  weeks  4  days  in  radio  work.  Dis. 
C.  Custer  Jan.  18,  1919. 


.?.     STARR.   XORMAX   S. 

Moweaqua,    111. 
Horn    Sept.    28,    1888,    Pari 


1st   Lieut. 
Medical   Corps 

Horn  Sept.  28,  1888,  Paris;  son  X.  Starr,  Charleston; 
married  June  24,  1916,  Fern  Baxter,  dau.  W.  W.  Baxter, 
Iloopston,  111.;  son  born  while  father  was  in  service; 
physician;  commissioned  June  28,  1917,  1st  Lieut.. 
Springfield:  assigned  to  O.  T.  C.  Ft.  Harrison;  trfd. 
Nov.  31  to  Ft.  Oglethorpe  as  Instructor;  Feb.  9,  1919, 
trfd.  to  C.  C'aswell  to  S.  C.  A.  C'.  5-8  Anti-Aircraft  Bat- 
tery; sailed  from  Hoboken  June  10,  1918;  transport  Mt. 
Vemon  ;  landed  Brest  June  19;  at  Soissons  in  July;  field 
work,  medical.  Dis.  C.  Devens,  Mass.,  Jan.  28,  1919; 
first  Post  Commander  Moweaqua  Chapter  of  American 
Legion. 

4.     STEPHEN'S,   WILLIS  H.  2nd  Lieut. 

Fincllay,   111.  Co.   G,   346   Inf. 

Enl.  Sept.  19,  1917,  Shelby  ville  ;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor: 
trfd.  to  C.  Pike,  Ark.  ;  assigned  to  Co.  C,  346th  Inf.  ; 
went  overseas  with  87  Div.;  made  Sgt.  and  then  Lieut. 
in  France  ;  married  French  girl. 


STEWARDSOX,   DOUC.I.AS 
Fincllay,    III. 


Private 

214  Engrs.,  14  Div. 
Born  1889  near  Strasburg;  son  Mr.  anil  Mrs.  Fred  Stew- 
ardson,  Shelby  ville ;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville ;  assigned  to  160  Depot  Brigade,  C.  Custer,  Mich.: 
later  to  214  Engrs.  Tr.  14  Div.;  in  training  5  mos.  Dis. 
Feb.  5,  1919,  at  C.  Grant. 

6.  STIVIXSOX,    GAIL   W.  Private 
Moweaqua,   111.                                      Co.  A,  22nd   Infantry 

Born    June    3,     1893,     Moweaqua;    farmer;    enl.     Dec.     15, 

1917,  at   Decatur,    111.;   Army;    assigned   to   Q.    M.    at  Jeff. 
l!ks. :    trfd.    to    C.    Custer;    to    Camp    Meigs,    Washington, 
I).    C. ;    to   Co.    A,  22nd    Inf.    Sept.    1918;    Ft.    Meyer,    Va.  ; 
to     Potomac     Park,     Washington,     D.     C.  ;     to     Greenwich 
Park.    Pbila.      Dis.    Greenwich    Park,    Phila,    Feb.    18,    1919. 

7.  STOCKDALE,  JOHN  1st    Class    Private 
Shelbyville,   III.                                 Co.  H,   130  Inf.  33   Div. 

Born  1897  in  Shelby  Co.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Stock- 
dale;  farmer;  enl.  June  7,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H,  130 
Inf.:  in  training  at  C.  Logan;  made  1st  Cl.  Private  at  C. 
Logan;  sailed  from  Hoboken  May  16,  1918;  transport 
Agamemnon;  landed  Brest  May  26,  1918;  went  to  trenches 
July,  1918;  there  until  armistice;  part,  work,  sniping:  in 
hospital,  mumps.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  31,  1919. 

8.  STODDARD,   DF.LBERT  Private 
Windsor,    III.                                 Aux.   Remount   Depot  319 

Born  Sept.  27,  1895,  Goodland,  Kans. ;  son  W.  O.  Stod- 
dard,  Windsor;  married  Jan.  2,  1919,  Xettie  H.  Bcnce, 
dau.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  A.  Bence ;  farmer:  enl.  June  27, 

1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  C'..  Taylor:  assigned  to  A.  R.  D. 
319;    in    hospital,    influenza    and    mumps.      Dis.    March    29, 

1919,  at    C.    Taylor. 

9.  STONE,   CHARLES   W. 
Shelbyville,  111. 


STOXEK,    MULLIX 


STORM,  BERXIE  R. 


Gays,  111. 


10.     STORM,  CLAIR  I.  1st  Sergeant 

Shelbyville.   111.  Mach.   Shop  Truck   I'nit   340 

Horn  March  6,  1889,  Windsor,  111.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
M.  W.  Storm,  Shelbyville;  clerk;  enl.  Dec.  10,  1917,  St. 
Louis;  Army  (Q.  M.  C.)  at  Jeff.  Bks.  Mo.;  served  at 
Camp  Meigs,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Camp  Gordon.  Atlanta, 
Ga. ;  in  Mach.  Shop  Truck  Unit  Xo.  340;  promoted  to  Top 
Sgt.  at  C.  Gordon ;  in  training  one  year. 

STORM,   ROBERT 

Son  Walter   E.   Storm ;   in   service  overseas. 

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J.     STORM,    GARLAND  J.  Corporal 

Trowbridgc,    111.  327    F.   A. 

Born  May  29,  1896,  Trowbridge  ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Del- 
bert  Storm,  Trowbridge;  farmer;  enl.  Oct.  3,  1917,  Shel- 
byville;  assigned  to  Camp  Taylor:  327  Field  Artillery; 
trfd.  to  West  Point,  Ky.;  in  training  11  mos.  ;  sailed 
from  Hoboken,  Sept.  8,  1918;  transport  Orduna  ;  landed 
Liverpool  Sept.  21  ;  in  camp  overseas  at  l)e  Souge,  France. 
])is.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  16,  1919. 

2.  STORM,   GROVER    '  Private 
Trowbridge,    111.                      Bat.    C,    308    F.    A.,    78    Div. 

r.orn  Dec.  13,  1892.  Trowbridge;  son  J.  II.  Storm; 
farmer:  enl.  April  29,  1918,  Shelbyville  ;  sent  to  Camp 
Dix  :  assigned  to  Bt.  C,  308  F.  A.,  78  Div.;  in  training 
25  days;  sailed  May  26,  1918;  landed  June  12;  at  Camp 
De  Melicon  ;  to  trenches  late  in  Aug.  ;  there  almost  3 
mos.;  at  St.  Mihiel  and  Meuse-Argonne  :  trfd.  Nov.  15, 
76  F.  A.  3rd  Div.;  crossed  the  Moselle  R.  into  Germany 
Dec.  1  and  left  Germany  Aug.  8,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant 
Aug.  31,  1919. 

3.  STORM,   LEDGER    M.  Cook 
Stewardson,    111.                               Co.   L,    10   Inf.,    14   Div. 

Born  April  11,  1893,  Stewardson;  son  Jesse  B.  Storm; 
farmer;  enl.  May  29,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Ft. 
Thomas.  Ky.  ;  trfd.  June  3rd  to  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison,  Ind., 
to  4  Det.  Co.  10  Inf.;  July  29  trfd.  to  C.  Custer  to  Co. 
L.  10  Inf.,  14  Div.;  promoted  to  1st  Cl.  Private  Aug. 
1918;  to  cook  Feb.  1,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Custer  May  22,.  1919. 

4.  STORM,   REVERDIA  Private 
Trowbridge.  111.                    Q.  M.  C.  Remount,  C.  Taylor 

Born  July  10,  1894,  near  Strasburg;  son  W.  D.  Storm; 
farmer;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Depot 
Brigade.  C'.  Taylor;  trfd  to  Q.  M.  C.  Remount;  in  train- 
ing 11  mos.;  in  hospital,  influenza.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  May 
27,  1919. 

STORM.  TRUMAN  W.  Windsor.  111. 

In   service  overseas  seven  months  in   a  machinist   Co.  ;    en- 

gaged in  making  repairs  on  cannon,  heavy  trucks,  trac- 
tors, etc. 

5.  STRETCH,  GEORGE  F.  2nd  Lieut. 
Shelbyville,  111.                                                130  Inf.   33  Div. 

Salesman;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  F.  Stretch;  enl.  May  25, 
1917:  Co.  II  ;  made  Cpl.  May  31;  Sgt.  Sept.  21;  1st  Sgt. 
Dec.  IS;  training  C.  Logan  10  mos;  overseas  May  16; 
brigaded  with  British  at  Albert  front;  American  action, 
Verdun,  Meuse-Argonne;  commissioned  2nd  Lieut.  April 
9,  1919.  and  assigned  Co.  G,  130  Inf.  Dis.  Grant  May 
31.  1919. 

6      STRETCH,  JOHN   LEONARD  Private 

Shelbyville,    111.  Co.    B.    37    Inf. 

Merchant;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  F.  Stretch;  enl.  Shelby- 
ville May  23,  1918;  sent  Jeff  Bks.,  and  later  assigned 
Co.  B,  37  Inf.  Ft.  Mclntosh,  Laredo,  Texas:  border  pa- 
trol duty  from  June  28,  1918,  to  Feb.  18,  1919,  when  hon- 
orably discharged  at  Ft.  Mclntosh. 

7.  STROHL,  AMBROSE  L.  Private 
Tower  Hill,   111.                         319   Aux.    Remount   Station 

Born  Jan.  25,  1894,  Pana  ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alfred 
Strohl;  farmer;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to 
Camp  Taylor;  assigned  to  Remount  Station. 

8.  STROHL,    CHARLES    HENRY  Private 
Clarksburg,    111.                     Co.    C.   28   Bn.   U.    S.    Guards 

Born  Tan.  21,  1889,  Strasburg;  son  W.  W.  Strohl,  Clarks- 
burg: farmer;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
to  Bat.  D,  327  F.  A.,  84  Div.,  C.  Taylor;  trfd.  C.  Pike. 
Ark.  Nov.  16;  to  C.  Green,  N.  C.  ;  to  Ft.  McPherson,  Ga.  ; 
to  Brunswick,  Ga.,  as  member  of  Co.  C,  28  Bn.  U.  S. 
Guards:  sent  Camp  Grant  and  discharged  Jan.  8,  1919; 
domestic  service  man,  eligible  only  for  guard  duty  in 
U.  S. 

9.  STROHL,    ROY  Private 
Clarksburg,    111.                               54    Co.    14    Bn.    159   D.    B. 

Born  Aug.  9,  1893,  Prairie  Twp.,  Shelby  Co.;  school 
teacher:  son  W.  W.  Strohl,  Clarksburg;  enl.  Tune  28,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  assigned  54  Co,  14  Bn.  159  I).  B.,  Camp 
Taylor.  Ky.  :  was  Supt.  of  5th  Regiment  schools,  Camp 
Taylor.  Dis.  Jan.  25,  1919,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.  ;  one 
brother  in  service. 


STRUSE,  LOUIS  J. 


Windsor,    111. 


10.     STUCKER,    WM.    EARL  Private 

Shelbyville,    III.  Co.    G,    310    Inf.,    78    Div. 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wash  Stucker,  Shelbyville;  enl.  May 
27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  150  Inf.,  38  Div.;  Camp 
Shelby,  Miss;  trained  4  mos.;  sailed  Montreal,  Can.,  Oct. 
3,  1918;  in  trenches  3  days;  sent  as  Replacement  to  78 
Div.;  returned  with  Co.  G.,  310  Inf.,  78  Div.  Dis.  C. 
Grant  June  11,  1919. 

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STEAGALL,   RABORX   E.  Chief  Boatswain's    Mate 

C'owden,   111.  U.  S.  Xavy 

Born  Jan.  10,  1893,  Cowden;  son  Mrs.  M.  A.  Steagall, 
Cowden;  miner;  enl.  July  27,  1917,  at  St.  Louis,  navy; 
with  tugboat  Lykens  3  mos.;  U.  S.  S.  Moccasin  9  mos.; 
U.  S.  S.  Pequot  3  mos.;  U.  S.  S.  Western  until  discharged 
Aug.  24,  1918,  at  Brooklyn,  X.  Y. ;  furloughed  to  inactive 
duty:  promoted  from  1st  Class  Seaman  to  Chief  Boatswain's 
Mate. 

STEEL.  J.  H.  1st  C!.  Private 

Mode,   111.  32nd  Artillery 

Horn  March  1,  1885,  Shelbyville:  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  Z. 
Steel,  Mode;  farmer;  enl.  April  26,  1918,  at  Decatur.  111.; 
army;  sent  to  Jeff.  Bar.;  in  tr.  13  months  at  Jeff.  Bar.,  Ft. 
Caesy,  Washington,  Camp  Lee,  Va.,  and  C.  Taylor ;  part. 
work,  cook.  Dis.  May  9,  1919,  at  C.  Taylor. 

1.     SUDCAMP,    ADOLPH 


SUDCAMP,    JOSEPH    H. 
Sigel,  111. 


Sigel,    Illinois. 

Private 
Co.   M,  3   Bn.    160    I).    V.. 


Born  Jan.  10,  1889,  Sigel;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
Sudcamp,  Sigel;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelhyville:  assigned 
12  Bn.,  160  D.  B.,  Camp  Custer,  -Mich.;  trained  3  mos. 
His.  C.  Custer  Dec.  10.  1918. 

3.  SUDCAMP,    LEWIS   B.  Private   1st   Class 
Sigel,  111.                                             O.   M.   C.  A.   R.   1).  319 

Born  Dec.  21,  1895,  Sigel;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  C. 
Taylor,  Ky.  ;  assigned  O.  M.  C".  Aux.  Remount  Depot  319. 
Camp  Taylor.  Dis.  C.  "Taylor  May  17,  1919;  one  brother 
in  service. 

4.  SULLIVAN',    DAXXIE  Corporal 
Shelhyville,  111.                                       Co.  I.  54   Inf.  6   Div. 

Born  Feb.  20,  1896,  Mattoon  ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jerry 
Sullivan.  Shelbyville;  assigned  54  Inf.,  Co.  I,  6  Div., 
Camp  Wadsworth,  S.  C.  ;  trained  2  mos.;  sailed  N.  Y. 
July  1,  1918;  in  trenches  25  days;  active  service  Alsace 
Lorraine,  Vosges  Mts.  ;  wounded  by  hand  grenade  Sept. 
J5.  1918,  in  Vosges  Mts.;  returned  with  Casual  Co.  Dis. 
C.  Grant  Jan.  29,  1919;  two  brothers  in  service. 

5.  SULLIVAX,   JOHX    L.  Corporal 
Shelbyville,    111.                               Co.    K,    36    Inf.,    12    Div. 

Horn  Sept.  24,  1894,  Mattoon;  shipping  clerk;  son  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Jerry  Sullivan,  Shelbyville;  enl.  May  19.  1918, 
Sullivan,  Ind.  ;  assigned  Co.  F,  36  Inf.,  Ft.  Snelling, 
Minn.;  trained  10  mo.,  trfd.  C.  Devens,  Mass.;  trfd.  Ft. 
Ethan  Allen.  Dis.  C'.  Taylor,  Ky.,  Mar.  11,  1919;  two 
brothers  in  service. 

6.  SUI.I.IYAX.   MAURICE  A.  Exchange   Steward 
Shelbyville,    111.  Co.    K,    10th    Inf. 

Born  Dec.  23,  1893,  Mattoon;  salesman;  son  Mr.  anil 
Mrs.  lerry  Sullivan,  Shelbyville;  enl.  May  29,  1918, 
Shelbyville:  assigned  Co.  K,  10  Inf.,  Ft.  Thomas,  Ky.  ; 
trfd.  Ft.  Harrison  ;  trfd.  Camp  Custer,  Mich.  ;  Exchange 
Steward.  Dis.  C.  Custer,  Mich.,  Jan.  20,  1919;  two 
brothers  in  service. 

7.  SUMMERS,   CLARENCE   H.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                                   Co.   D,   52   Inf.,  6  Div. 

Born  May  26,  1889,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  James  Sum- 
mers; enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  54  Co., 
159  D.  B.,  Camp  Taylor;  training  2l/i  mos.;  trfd.  C. 
Beauregard,  Co.  F,  154  Inf.,  39  Div.;  sailed  Xewport  Xews 
Aug.  6,  1918;  in  trenches  22  days;  active  service  Vosges 
Mts.,  Argonne.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  June  21,  1919. 


Pharmacist  Mate   1   C 
Naval  Hospital 


8.  SUPRUNOWSKI,  HAROLD 
Mode,  111. 

Son  J.  X.  and  Florence  Suprunowski  ;  born  Xoy.  18,  1898, 
Mode;  student;  enl.  May  7,  1916,  Peoria  ;  assigned  Med. 
Dept.,  Great  Lakes;  promoted  Pharmacist  Mate  1st  Cl.  ; 
training  8  mos.;  sailed  Xew  York  Dec.  1916:  served  Xaval 
Base  Hospital  Xo.  2,  Scotland,  1  1  mos.  ;  served  7  mo.  at 
aviation  camp  in  Eng.  ;  on  transport  duty  on  Pres.  Lin- 
coln until  torpedoed  June,  1918;  picked  up  by  naval  de- 
stroyers; on  life  raft  18  hours:  on  duty  in  Xaval  Hospital. 
Gibraltar,  until  June,  1919;  still  in  service. 

9.  SUTTLES,    CLAREXCE  Corporal 
Shelbyville,    111.                                                Canteen   Service 

Born  lola;  garage  man;  enl.  May  29,  1918;  sent  Ft. 
Thomas,  Ky.  :  assigned  Co.  L,  10  Inf.  ;  trfd.  Ft.  Uenj. 
Harrison.  Ind.:  trfd.  C.  Custer,  Mich.;  in  charge  of  can- 
teen; formerly  with  Co.  H  on  Mexican  border;  one 
brother  died  in  service. 

10.  SWIXEY,    ELGIX  T.  1st   Lieut. 
Windsor,   111.                                                      Field  Artillery 

Born  Apr.  27,  1891,  Dalton  City;  salesman:  son  Frank 
Swiney.  Windsor;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917.  Shelbyville:  as- 
signed 327  F.  A.  84  Div.;  promoted  Sgt.  Oct.  15:  at- 
tended C'entral  F.  A.  O.  C.  ;  commissioned  2nd  Lieut. 
Sept.  1.  1918;  later  1st  Lieut.;  trained  15  mo.  Dis.  C. 
Jackson  Dec.  19,  1918. 

SYLVESTER,  JOIIX 


Sigel,   111. 
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STANTON,   ALBERT  J.  Windsor,   111. 

Enlisted  through   Local   Hoard. 

ST'EGER,  JACOB    F.  Xeoga.    111. 

Served    in    Marine   Corps. 

1.      SWAXSOX,    ARTHUR    HARMON         Private    1st    Cl. 
Trowbridge,   111.  U.  S.   A.   Gen.  IIosp.   Xo.  6 

Born  June  9,  1895,  Trowbridge;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Jasper  Swanson,  Trowbridge;  enl.  Jan.  5,  1918, 
Shelby  ville;  assigned  Med.  Dept.  Ft.  Oglethorpe,  (ia.  : 
trfd.  Ft.  Logan  H.  Roots,  Ark.;  trfd.  Ft.  McPherson, 
Ga.  ;  served  First  Aid  Work  8  mo.,  Ft.  I..  II.  Roots,  Ark.; 
re-enlisted  for  1  yr.,  Apr.  19,  1919;  stationed  at  U.  S.  A. 
General  Hospital  Xo.  6,  Ft.  McPherson,  Ga.  ;  two  brothers 


2.  SWAXSOX,    TOHX    H.  Private 
Trowbridge,    111.                                      Bat.   F,   34   C.   A.    C. 

Born  May  24,  1893,  Trowbridge;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Joseph  Swanson,  Trowbridge;  married  Zelma  Gar- 
rett,  June  15,  1918;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville  ;  as- 
signed 161  I).  I!.,  Camp  Custer,  Mich.:  trfd.  Ft.  Totten, 
X.  V.;  trfd.  Camp  Abraham  Austin,  Va.,  ,  Bat.  F,  34  C. 

A.  C.      I)is.    C.   Grant   Dec.  28,    1919;   two  brothers  in   ser- 
vice. 

3.  SWAXSOX,   OTTO    L.  Private   1st   Class 
Trowbridge,   111.                            105  M.  O.  R.  S.,  30   Div. 

Born  June  1,  1891,  Trowbridge;  motorcycle  dealer;  son 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jasper  Swanson,  Trowbridge  ;  enl.  Feb. 
22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  D.  B.,  Camp  Taylor;  trfd. 
Camp  Sevier,  30  Div.,  119  Inf.;  trfd.  105  M.  O.  R.  S'.,  30 
Div.;  trained  2  mos.  ;  sailed  Montreal,  Can.,  May  26 
1918;  active  service  Toul  Sector,  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse-Ar- 
gonne,  Woevre  Sector.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  Apr.  22,  1919; 
two  brothers  in  service. 

4.  TABMERT,    ELMER    E.  Private 
Stewardson,    111.                                327    Field   Art.,   84    Div. 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Win.  Tabbert,  Herborn,  111.;  born  Oct. 
3,  1894;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
327  F.  A.,  84  Div.;  went  overseas  Apr.  18,  1918;  landed 
May  17,  1918;  battles  of  St.  Mihiel,  Chateau  Thierry,  Ar- 
gonne  Forest  ;  wounded  on  right  leg  and  on  side  of  head 
Oct.  5,  1918,  by  shrapnel;  returned  as  casual.  Dis.  Camp 
Cape  May,  X.  J.,  June  19,  1919;  disability  caused  from 
wounds  :  one  brother  in  service. 

5.  TABBERT.    WALLACE    O.  Private 
Kingman,    111.                       O.    M.    Corps.   Remount    Depot 

Born  Aug.  2,  1890,  Kingman,  111.;  farmer:  son  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Wm.  Tabbert,  Herborn,  III.;  enlisted  June  27,  1918. 
Shelbyville;  assigned  to  O.  M.  C.  Remount  Depot;  in 
training  11  mo.  Dis.  CT  Taylor  May  27,  1919;  one 
brother  in  service. 

6.  TAI.COTT,    REO    A.  Sergeant 
Stewardson,   111.                             Co.   B,   3   Am.   Tr.   3   Div. 

Grandson  of  Mrs.  Wm.  Carr,  Stewardson;  born  June  18, 
1894,  Stewardson;  bookkeeper;  enlisted  Aug.  7,  1917. 
Jeff.  Bks.,  St.  Louis;  assigned  to  Co.  I,  11  Inf.;  trfd.  Co. 

B,  ,inl    .  \mm.    Tr.    3rd    Div.,   Camp    Forrest,    Ga.,    Dec.    23. 
1917;    promoted    Sgt.    Apr.    15,     1918;    went    overseas    on 
Carpathia,    Mar.    16;   landed  Liverpool    Mar.  29;   firing  line 
July  2   to   Xov.    11,    1918;   Champagne,   Marne   Def.,  Aisne. 
Marne    Off..    St.    Mihiel,    Meuse,    Argonne,    Army    of    Occu- 
pation   Xov.    14  to  Aug.    10,    1918.      Dis.   C.   Grant  Sept.   3, 
1919:    one    brother   in    service. 

7.  TAI.COTT,    WILLIAM    OLEN  Stewardson,    111. 

Grandson  of  Mrs.  W.  V.  Carr  of  Stewardson,  111.  ;  serve:! 
in  army. 

8.  TA1.LMAX,   I.   LEVERETT  Corporal 
Shelbyville,   Ifl.                                                              Ordnance 

Born  Ian.  14,  1894.  Ilerrick,  111.;  automobile  salesman: 
son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  M.  Tallman,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Apr. 
10,  1918.  Shelbyville,  111.;  assigned  Ordnance;  promoted 
Cpl.  of  Ord.  Aug.  22,  1918;  trfd.  from  Bradley  College, 
Camp  Hancock,  Ga.,  to  Camp  Grant.  Dis.  Jan.  17,  1919; 
one  brother  in  service. 

9.  TALLMAN,    MRS.   J.    LEVERETT          Student    Nurse 
Shelbyville,    111.  Walter   Reed    Hosp. 

Bom  Stewardson,  III.,  1895  ;  dau.  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm. 
Frede,  Stewardson;  newspaper  reporter;  enl.  June,  1918; 
Yassar  Training  Camp  for  Nurses,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.; 
assigned  Walter  Reed  Gen.  Hospital,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Dis.  Walter  Reed  Feb.  20,  1919;  one  brother  in  service. 

10.  TALLMAN,   EMERY  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                                         Co    H,    130th    Inf. 

Son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  M.  Tallman,  Shelbyville;  auto 
mechanic:  enl.  Sept.  4,  1917;  assigned  to  Camp  Logan; 
Dispatch  Rider  Hq.  Co.,  130  Inf.,  33  Div.  Dis.  Dec.  27, 
1917,  on  account  of  fiat  feet;  one  brother  in  service. 

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1.     TANIGES,  JOHN  F.  Private 

Herrick,  111.  Bat.  D,  21   F.  Artillery 

Son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  Taniges,  Herrick ;  enl.  Sept. 
19,  1917;  assigned  Battery  D,  21  Field  A.,  Camp  Taylor; 
trf.  Camp  McArthur;  sent  overseas:  landed  Winchester, 
Eng..  June  14,  1918;  served  with  5th  Div.  Dis.  Tuly  29, 
1919,  C.  Grant. 

_'.     TAPP.  CART,  Cook 

Taylorville,  111.  Co.  II,   130  Inf..  33   Div. 

Enl.  and  sent  Camp  Logan,  Oct.  9,  1917;  cook,  Co.  H, 
130  Inf.;  went  overseas  May  15,  1918;  landed  Brest  May 
24,  1918;  served  as  cook,  Co.  H,  through  entire  period 
overseas.  I)is.  C.  Grant,  May,  1919. 


TKKI..   IOIIX  F. 
Tower   Hill. 


Sergeant 

Chauffeur,  1st  Class 
Horn  May  21,  1889,  Wayne  City,  111.;  electrical  engineer; 
son  Mr.  Wm.  Teel ;  enl.  June  30,  1917,  Dexter,  Mo.;  as- 
signed to  6th  Missouri:  went  overseas  Apr.  1917:  landed 
April  28;  firing  line  Al/i  months;  at  St.  Mihiel.  Verdun, 
Argonne,  Vosges  Mountains;  Co.  A,  110th  Amm.  I).  S.  C. ; 
honorable  discharge  Camp  Funston,  Kan.,  May  5,  1919; 
one  brother  in  service;  Otis  Rusher,  half  brother,  died 
mid-ocean  Oct.  11,  1918,  First  Class  Seaman. 

3.  TERRY,  GAYLORI)  G.  Private 
Shelby ville,  III.                                Co.  II,  130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Horn  1895,  Shelbyyille;  enl.  1916,  Shelbyville,  for  border 
service;  assigned  Co.  II,  130  Inf.;  went  overseas  May  15, 
1918:  landed  Brest  May  24,  1918;  served  in  France  with 
Co.  H  and  returned  with  Co.  Dis.  May  31,  1919,  Camp 
Grant. 

4.  TETRICK,  JOHN   HANSON  Corporal 
Oconee,   111.                                       Co.  H,   130  Inf..  33   I)iv. 

Farmer;  enl.  Aug.  5,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Co.  II, 
140  Inf.;  sent  C.  Logan,  Oct.  9,  1917;  overseas  May  15, 
1918;  landed  Brest  May  24,  1918;  firing  line  at  Meuse, 
Marcheville  raid;  wounds,  gas  inhalation,  mustard.  Mis- 
ability  discharge  Feb.  20,  1919.  C.  Grant. 

5.  THEOBALD,   PAUL  K.  Corporal 
Clinton,   111.                                     Co.  A,    10th   Inf.,   14    Div. 

Born  Nov.  15,  1893,  Auburn,  111.;  prin.  H.  S.,  Shelbyville, 
son  Rev.  and  Mrs.  W.  W.  Theobald,  Illiopolis,  111.;  enl. 
May  _>7,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Co.  A,  10th  Inf.;  trf. 
from  Ft.  Thomas,  Ky.,  to  Co.  A,  10  Inf.,  Rock  Island 
Arsenal;  trf.  to  Camp  Custer,  Tuly  25,  1918.  Dis.  March 
11,  1919. 

h.     THOM,  STEWARD  McLF.AN  1st   Cl.   Yeoman 

Shelbyville.  111.  U.   S.   Navy 

Born  Aug.  6,  1894.  Shelbyville;  son  Henry  A.  and  Flora 
F.  Thorn,  Shelbyville;  salesman;  enl.  Dec.  31,  1917.  at  St. 
Louis,  Mo.;  navy;  assigned  to  Naval  Training  Station, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. ;  promoted  to  Yeoman,  third  class, 
Sept.  1st:  to  Yeo.,  2nd  class,  Oct.  1st,  and  Yeo.,  1st  class. 
Tec.  16,  1918;  went  aboard  "The  Oregon"  on  May  25, 
1918.  and  served  until  May  27,  1919.  Dis.  June  9,  1919, 
at  St.  Louis. 


7.     THOMAS,   CORNELIA 
See  record,  page  66. 


Shelbyville,   111. 


THOMAS,  OSCAR  Windsor,   111. 

Enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Camp  Cus- 
ter. Mich. 

X.     THOMAS,  WM.  H.  Private 

Slu-lhyville,    111.  124    Engrs. 

Born  June  2,  1892,  Cowden ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm.  H. 
Thomas,  Cowden;  married  July  25,  1917,  Josephine  Plow- 
man, dau.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm.  Plowman,  Ilerrick;  two 
daughters,  Mildred  Irene  and  Melba  Madline  ;_ farmer  :  enl. 
Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Forrest.  Ga. ; 
,-issigned  to  124  Engrs.;  in  training  4'/2  mos. ;  trf.  to  C. 
Grant  and  discharged  there  Jan.  25,  1919.  One  brother  in 
service. 


9      THOMPSON,  CURT   H. 
Findlay,  111. 


Private 

. ,,  ....  Aux.  Remount   Depot 

Born  lune  23,  1892,  Shelby  Co.;  son  Bert  Thompson, 
Findlay;  married  Feb.  9,  1918,  Rosa  Ana  Conner;  one 
son,  Wm.  Hubert,  born  Jan.  4,  1919;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5, 
1918  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Custer;  assigned  to  320 
Aux.  Remount  Depot.  Dis.  March  13,  1919. 

10.   THOMPSON,  RAYMOND  Private 

Mode,  111.  Co.  B,  10  Inf.,  14   Div. 

Fnl  May  29,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Ft.  Thomas,  Ky. ; 
assigned"  to  Co.  B,  10  Inf.,  14  Div.,  at  Camp  Custer, 
Mich.  Dis.  there  Jan.  17,  1919. 

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1.  THOMPSON,  THEO.  1st  Lieut. 
Shelbyville,  111.                                                    -Medical  Corps 

Born  Nov.  1,  1872,  Prairie  Home,  Shelby  Co. ;  married 
Sept.  18,  1895,  Harriet  L.  Carnahan ;  physician  and  sur- 
geon;  enl.  Aug.  8,  1918,  at  Springfield;  assigned  to  O.  T. 

C.  at  Camp   Greenleaf,   Ga. ;   com.    1st  Lt.,  Sept.   26,    1918; 
trf.   Oct.   14,   1918,  to  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  to  port  of  embarka- 
tion ;    sailed    Nov.    3,    1918,    transport  S.    S.   Ascanius ;    was 
senior    medical    officer    and    transport    surgeon    on     British 
S.    S.    Ascanius    between    Brooklyn,    N.    Y.,    and    Liverpool ; 
landed    Liverpool    Nov.    17,    1918.     Dis.    Hoboken    Jan.    21, 
1919,   with   rank   of    1st    Lieut. 

2.  THOMPSON,  HENRY  1st  Cl.  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                                 Co.  H.  130   Inf. 

Born  June  1.  1897,  Shelbyville ;  son  Wm.  Thompson ; 
tailor;  enl,  Aug.  2,  1914,  in  Co.  H,  4th  III.  Inf.,  Shelby- 
ville; Bugler;  in  training  at  Camp  Logan;  sailed  Hoboken 
May  24,  1918 ;  landed  Brest  May  26,  1918 ;  went  to 
trenches  July  24,  1918;  at  Albert  front,  Argonne,  St. 
Mihiel ;  wounded  Aug.  10,  at  Albert  front,  grenade 
wound ;  Oct.  13,  at  Argonne,  broken  shoulder ;  in  hospi- 
tal ;  returned  to  U.  S.  with  casual  Co.  Dis.  C.  Grant, 
Feb.  27,  1919.  One  brother  in  service.  Border  service  in 
1916. 

3.  THOMPSON,  WILLIAM  Corporal 
Shelbyville,  111.                                 Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Born  Nov.  29,  1899,  Shelbyville;  son  William  and  Esther 
Thompson ;  blacksmith ;  in  training  at  C.  Logan  with  Co. 
TI;  sailed  from  Hoboken  May  16,  1918;  landed  Brest  May 
24,  1918 ;  in  trenches  4  mos. ;  at  Somme  front,  Albert 
front,  Verdun,  Meuse- Argonne,  St.  Mihiel,  Marcheville ; 
promoted  to  Cpl.  in  France.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  30,  1919. 
One  brother  in  service. 

4.  THROCKMORTON,  CHARLES  O.  1st  Sergeant 
Strasburg,  111.                             5th  Co.,  1   Bn.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Born  Jan.  15,  1895,  Champaign ;  son  J.  A.  and  Buena 
Throckmorton ;  teacher ;  enl.  June  20,  1918,  Shelbyville ; 
sent  Bradley  Institute;  trf.  to  C.  Grant  to  5th  Co.,  1st 
Bn.,  C.  O.  T.  S. ;  promoted  to  1st  Sergeant  at  Camp  Grant 
Sept.,  1918;  in  training  6  mos.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Dec.  20, 
1918. 

5.  TIDD.   MAHLOX  Private 
Bement,  HI.                          Co.  C,  138  M.  G.  Bn.,  38  Div. 

Born  Dec.  26,  1893,  Fayette  Co.,  111.;  enl.  May  27,  191S. 
at  Shelbyville ;  sent  to  C'amp  Shelby,  Miss. ;  assigned  to 
Co.  C,  138  M.  G.  Bn.,  38  Div.;  sent  to  Camp  Mills,  X.  Y., 
Sept.  13,  1918;  sailed  Oct.  1,  1918;  landed  at  Southampton, 
Eng.,  Oct.  9;  crossed  English  Channel  to  Havre,  Fr.,  Oct. 
4;  sent  to  Nantes,  Fr.,  Oct.  13;  started  to  trenches  Nov. 
1 0 ;  sent  to  hospital  Nov.  1 5,  mumps ;  discharged  from 
hosp.  Dec.  7  ;  sent  to  classification  camp  at  Revigny,  Fr. ; 
again  sent  to  hosp.  Dec.  16,  bronchitis ;  discharged  from 
hosp.  Feb.  8,  1919;  assigned  Q.  M.  Corps,  Paris;  trf.  to 
Ilq.  Det.  at  St.  Aignan,  Fr.,  Mar.  7;  trf.  to  St.  Aignan 
Casual  C'o.  7401,  Tune  17;  returned  to  U.  S.  A.  with  same, 
July  17;  dis.  C.  (Irani,  July  24,  1919;  re-enlisted  for  one 
year ;  assigned  to  6  Field  Signal  Bn.,  6  1  Hv. 

6.  TIEMAN,   MARTIN  Private 
Strasburg,    111.                                                                 Air   Service 

liprn  Aug.  31,  1889,  Strasburg:  son  William  and  Dora 
Tieman ;  farmer ;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville ;  assigned 
to  Camp  Custer ;  trf.  to  Ft.  Wayne;  trained  in  air  service 
5  months. 

7.  TIEMAN,   PHILIP  II.  Corporal 
Strasburg,  111.                    O.  M.  C.,  Aux.  Remount  Depot 

Born  Feb.  19,  1894,  Strasburg;  son  Wm.  and  Dora  Tieman, 
Strasburg;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to 
C'amp  Taylor ;  assigned  to  Q.  M.  C.,  Aux.  Remount  De- 
pot;  promoted  to  Cpl.;  in  training  11  mos.  Dis.  May  26, 
1919,  C.  Taylor. 

8.  TILLEY,   MAX  A.  1st  Cl.   Private 
Tower  Htll,   111.                                       Ev.   Amb.  Co.  No.   7 

Born  Aug.  10,  1896,  Tower  Hill;  clerk;  enl.  April  23, 
1918,  at  Jeff.  Bks. ;  assigned  to  18th  Rect.  Co. ;  trf.  to 
Amb.  Unit  No.  7,  Camp  Crane,  Sept.  10;  trf.  to  Merrill 
Sept.  15;  in  training  5  mos. ;  sailed  from  Hoboken  Sept. 
20,  1918;  landed  Brest  Sept.  28;  to  trenches  Oct.  15;  there 
until  armistice ;  at  Meuse- Argonne,  Oct.  15  to  Nov.  1 1 . 
Dis.  C.  Grant  July  30,  1919. 

9.  TIMPERLEY,  JOHN  Stewardson,   111. 
Was   assigned    to    Camp    Grant    for   limited    service    but   was 
excused;    was    in    service    in    Honolulu,    Jan.    21,    1915-June, 
1916.      Dis.   on    account   of   disability. 

10.  TOLLEY,  GLENN  CORNELIUS  Sergeant 
Moweaqua,  111.                                      Co.  G,  18  Inf.,  I   Div. 

Horn  Feb.  15,  1896,  Moweat|ua,  farmer,  son  Wm.  and  Mag- 
gie Tolley,  Moweaqua ;  enl.  Apr.  15,  1917,  Decatur ;  as- 
signed Co.  G,  18  Inf..  I  Div.;  sailed  Hoboken,  June  14. 
1917 ;  landed  St.  Nazaire ;  finished  training  Gondrecourt ; 
in  aclive  service  II  mos.;  Luneville  front,  Toul  front,  bat- 
tles Cantigny,  Soissons,  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse- Argonne ;  reed. 

D.  S.  O. ;   returned  U.  S.  as  casual;   promoted  Cpl.   on  Ton! 
front,    promoted    Sgt.    last    day    of    Chateau-Thierry    drive ; 
attended    O.    T.    C.,    Langres.    France,    but   armistice   signed 
before    receiving    commission.      Dis.     C.    Grant,    March     18, 
1919. 

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TIIIBEAl.T,   ERNEST 


ShelbyviUe,  111. 


THOMPSON.  THOMAS  R 
Windsor,  111. 


1st  Cl.  Private 
Co.  C,  326  F.  S.  I'.n. 
Kill.  Feb.  16.  1918,  Dade  City,  Fla. ;  assigned  to  Co.  C 
.126  F.  S.  Bn.  j  went  to  France  AUK.  14,  1918;  went  tu 
hospital  Oct.  21,  with  influenza:  spent  7  months  of  time 
in  France  in  hospitals.  Dis.  C.  Grant  April  29,  1919. 

1.     TOOTH  MAN,   LEONARD  CLAY  Private 

ShelbyviUe,  111.  Co.  B,   Bradley  Poly.  Inst. 

Morn  Nov.  7,  1896,  ShelbyviUe;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
A.  Toothman:  enl.  Oct.  15,  1918,  ShelbyviUe;  assigned 
Mechanical  School,  Bradley  Poly.  Inst.,  Camp  Bradley. 
Peoria :  in  training  2  mos.  Dis.  Dec.  13,  1918,  (.'amp 
Bradley,  Peoria ;  one  brother  in  service. 


2.     TOOTHMAN,   EDWIN 

See   S.  A.  T.  C.   section. 


ShelbyviUe,    111. 


3.     TOWERS,  JOHN  ANDREW  Sergeant 

Glamour,   Ky.  Batt.  D,  327   Field  Artillery 

Born  Oct.  14,  1895,  Murphysboro;  son  Wm.  Towers,  Ben- 
ton;  miner;  enl.  Oct.  3,  1917,  ShelbyviUe;  assigned  327 
r.  A.,  Batt.  D,  84  Div.  ;  promoted  Sgt.  Tan.  21,  1918;  trf. 
to  236  M.  P.  Co.,  Dec.,  1918;  served  3  years  previous  with 
Xth  and  15th  U.  S.  Cavalry,  Philippine  Islands— Apr.  1, 
1913-Apr.  24,  1916;  overseas  Sept.  9,  1918,  landed  Sept.  21. 
1918.  Dis.  Aug.  25,  1919,  C.  Upton. 


4.     TOWERS,  RALPH  Corporal 

Findlay,  III.  Co.   L,   128  Infantry 

Born  March  22,  1896,  Argenta:  son  S.  F.  Towers,  Dan- 
ville; farmer;  enl.  June  28,  1918;  assigned  54  Co.,  159 
1'eppt  Brigade,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.  ;  promoted  Cpl.,  Oct. 
13.  in  France;  overseas  Aug.  22,  1918;  returned  with  Co 
L,  128  Inf.  Dis.  C.  Grant. 


TRIECE,  HARRY 

Houston,  Texas 


Private 
44  Artillery  Band,  Ft.   Wortli 


Born  Feb.  13,  1893,  ShelbyviUe;  bookkeeper;  son  Noah 
rind  Anna  Triece,  ShelbyviUe;  enl.  May  30,  1918,  Chicago: 
assigned  JefTerson  Bks..  315  Cavalry  Hand;  trf.  44th  Artil- 
lery Band,  Ft.  Worth,  Tex.  Dis.  Jan.  9,  1919. 

TRIECE.  LAWRENCE 
In    service    overseas. 

I,.     TRIGG,   DANIEL  WESLEY  Private 

Findlay,   III.  Quartermaster  Corps 

Born  July  20,  1892,  Findlay;  farmer;  son  Reason  and 
Nancy  Trigg,  Findlay;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  ShelbyviUe; 
assigned  54  Co.,  159  D.  B.  ;  later  to  Q.  M.  C.  ;  in  training 
11  mos.  Dis.  May  27,  1919,  C.  Taylor,  Ky. 

7.     TRUEBLOOD,  ELZA  I.  Sergeant 

Tower  Hill,   111.  865  Squadron  Air  Service 

Enl.  Dec.  12,  1917,  Decatur  ;  assigned  865  Squadron,  Air 
Service.  Camp  Love  Field,  Texas;  promoted  Sgt.  Dis. 
April  1,  1919,  Love  Field,  Tex, 


S.     TUCKER,   DELMER  L.  Private 

Beecher  City,   111.  Co.   D.  37th  Infantry 

Enl.    May   23,    1918,   ShelbyviUe;   assigned   Co.    D,   37    Inf., 
Ft.   Mclntosh,  Tex.     Dis.  early  in  summer  of   1919. 


9.     TUCKER,  JAMES  Private 

•Strasburg,   111.  2nd  Rect   Co.,    Engrs. 

Farmer;  adopted  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ileiiry  Altag,  Stras- 
burg; enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  ShelbyviUe;  assigned  2nd  Rect. 
Co.,  Engineers,  Camp  Forrest,  Ga. ;  in  hospital  3  mos., 
pneumonia.  Honorable  dis.  Jan.  23,  1919;  certificate  of 
disability. 


10.  TULL,   HARRY   L. 


Windsor.   111. 


TULL,   LLOYD  C.  Aviation 

Shelbyville,   111. 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jose  Tull  of  Lithia  Springs;  discharged 
in  Feb.,  1919;  enl.  in  aviation  July,  1917;  went  France 
in  Oct.;  overseas  15  months. 

TURNER,  ROY  1st  Lieut. 

ShelbyviUe,  III.  148  Field  Art. 

Made   home   with    uncle,    Wm.  Furr,    Shelbyville:    regular: 

commissioned  and  sent  to  X.  G.  outfit;  extensive  service 
in  France. 

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1.  TULL,  EARL  BRYAN  Private 
Windsor,  111.                                Co.    B,   Camp   Forrest,   Ga. 

En!.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  Camp  Forrest,  Ga. ; 
assigned  Co.  B.  Dis.  Feb.  5,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

2.  TULL,  ARTHUR  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                             Machine  Gun   Co..  37   Inf. 

Enl.  May  23,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  Jefferson  Bks. ;  trf. 
Machine  Gun  Co.,  37  Inf.,  Ft.  Mclntosh,  Tex.  Dis.  Sept.. 
1919,  C.  Grant. 

3.  TULL,  TOM  L.  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                              Co.  II,  130th  Inf. 

Born  March  13,  1894,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  son  S.  C.  and 
Francis  Tull ;  enl.  June  18,  1916,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Co. 
H,  130  Inf.;  overseas  Hoboken  May  16,  1918;  landed 
Brest  May  24,  1918;  served  through  with  Co.  H;  shrapnel 
wound  in  left  leg,  gassed  ;  returned  with  Co.  H.  Dis.  May 
30,  1919,  C.  Grant.  Border  service  in  1916. 

4.  TURNER,  CARL  A.  Private 
Herrick,    111.                                               Co.   A,    Bradley    Poly. 

Born  Aug.  11,  1898,  Oconee;  mechanic;  son  Marion  and 
Susan  Turner,  Herrick,  111.;  enl.  Oct.  15,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville; assigned  Motor  Transport,  Co.  A.  Dis.  Dec.  7, 

1918,  Peoria. 

5.  TWISS,  ALBERT   EARL  Private,  46th  Sqdn. 
Tower  Hill,  111.              Hazelhurst  Field,  Mineola,  N.  Y. 

Born  Aug.  19,  1896,  Shelbyville;  mechanic;  son  Chas.  II. 
and  Alice  Twiss,  Tower  Hill;  enl.  March  6,  1918,  Decatur ; 
assigned  1st  Training  Brig.,  Kelly  Field;  trf.  Ellington 
Field,  303  Prov.  Sqdn.,  May  22,  1918;  trf.  Hazelhurst 
Field,  Mineola,  N.  Y.,  46  Aero  Sqdn.,  Oct.  18,  1918.  Dis. 
C.  Grant,  Jan.  27,  1919. 

6.  TWISS,  CHARLES  LEE  First  Lieut. 
Shelbyville,  111.                                               130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Born  Nov.  6,  1893,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  linotype  operator;  son 
Harry  I).  Twiss,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Co.  H,  4th  I.  N.  G., 
March  1,  1911;  served  as  Cpl.  and  Sgt. ;  was  2nd  Lt.  on 
border,  1916;  made  1st  Lt.,  Apr.  20,  1917;  went  Camp 
Logan  with  Co.  H  ;  was  33d  Div.  bayonet  instructor ;  later 
assigned  command  Co.  E,  130  Inf.  ;  landed  Brest  May  22, 
1918;  brigaded  with  British;  June  23,  1918,  was  on  night 
patrol  with  Australian  and  British  officers,  received  14 
wounds  from  German  hand  grenades;  in  hospitals  at  Rouen, 
Fr.,  and  London  :  trf.  Am.  Rest  Camp,  Winnal  Downs, 
Winchester,  Eng.,  there  until  return  in  command  of  M.  T. 
Co.  794.  Dis.  at  The  Presidio,  San  Francisco.  May  20,  '19. 

7.  ULMER,  JAKE  D.  Corporal 
Strasburg,   111.          Aux.  Remount  Depot  319,   Q.   M.   C. 

Born  Apr.  6,  1895;  farmer;  son  John  and  Augusta  Ulmer, 
Strasburg;  enl.  Tune  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  54  Co., 
15>  D.  B.:  later  to  Aux.  Remount  Depot  319  Q.  M.  C. ; 
promoted  Cpl.  Q.  M.  C.  Aux.  Remt.  Depot  319,  Apr.  14, 

1919.  Dis.  May  26,  '19,  C.  Taylor;  one  brother  in  service. 

8.  ULMER,  MARTIN  G.  Wagoner 
Strasburg,  111.                                              327  Field  Artillery 

Born  March  13,  1892,  Springfield;  farmer;  son  John  and 
Augusta  Ulmer,  Strasburg;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelby- 
ville: assigned  327th  F.  A.;  went  overseas  Sept.  8,  1918; 
landed  Sept.  20,  1918;  returned  as  casual.  Honorable  dis. 
March  11,  1919,  C.  Grant;  one  brother  in  service. 

9.  UXRUH,  ARTHUR  Private 
Strasburg,   111.                                         Quartermaster  Corps 

Born  June  21,  1895,  Herborn,  Neb.;  farmer;  son  of  Fred 
Unruh,  Strasburg;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville ;  assigned 
Camp  C'uster;  trf.  Johnston,  Fla.,  to  Q.  M.  C. ;  trf.  Camp 
Taylor,  Ky.  Dis.  Dec.  22,  1918,  C.  Taylor. 

10.  VEXXUM,   ERNEST  MARSH  2nd  Lieut. 
Findlay,  111.                                              Quartermaster  Corps 

Born  Sept.  5,  1880,  Fisher,  111.;  banker;  son  of  F.  B.  and 
Saide  A.  Vennum,  Champaign,  111.;  enl.  July  6,  1918, 
Columbus,  O. ;  assigned  437  Engineers ;  promoted  2nd  Lt. 
Q.  M.  C.,  Oct.  23,  1918.  Dis.  Dec.  1,  1918,  Washington, 

WARD.    OXAS   MARION  2nd   Lieut. 

Dalton   City,   111.  107  Aerial 

Born  Oct.  3,  1888,  Dalton  City,  111.;  son  of  Wm.  M.  and 
Lunette  Florence  Ward;  photographer;  enl.  Feb.  16,  1918, 
Sebastopool,  Cal. ;  assigned  107  Aerial;  trfd.  to  1 1 1  Aerial: 
promoted  to  Corporal  in  France,  to  2nd  Lieutenant  in 
France  in  Coast  Artillery ;  sailed  from  Philadelphia  July 
14.  1918;  when  about  3  hours  off  coast  of  Ireland,  fiv 
subs  attacked  convoy;  two  subs  sank:  lauded  Barry, 
Wales,  Inly  31,  191X;  returned  with  311  F.  A.  79  Di'v. 
Dis.  June  11,  1919,  Camp  Dix. 


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1.  VEXTERS,  ROY  W.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                                 U.   S.    Military    Mission 

Enl.  -\ray  10,  1918;  sailed  July  5,  1918;  battles  Vosges, 
Meuse-Argonne;  returned  to  U.  S.  July  19.  1919.  bis. 
July  26,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

2.  VEST,  WALTER  Corporal 
Shelbyville,  111.                              Co.  E,  102  Inf.,  26  Div. 

Horn  Apr.  2,  1895,  Sexson  Corner;  son  T.  W.  and  Cordelia 
Vest,  Shelbyville;  enl.  July  26,  1918,  Webster  City,  la.; 
assigned  Co.  E,  102  Inf.,  26  Div. ;  promoted  Cpl.,  Aug.  1, 
1918,  Camp  Gordon,  Ga. ;  sailed  Iloboken  Aug.  5,  1918; 
landed  Liverpool,  Aug.  16,  1918;  battles,  Verdun  and  Ar- 
gonne ;  gassed,  machine  gun  and  shrapnel  wounds ;  re- 
turned as  casual.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  March  18.  1919. 

3.  VIRDEX.  CHRISTOPHER  Cook 
Moweaqua,    111.                                   Ambulance  Co.   Xo.  40 

Son  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Virden,  Moweaqua,  111.;  enl.  through 
local  board ;  assigned  Cook  Ambulance  Co.  Xo.  40.  6th 
Div.;  overseas  July,  1918. 

4.  VLSEUR,  SADIE  CARXOT  Private 
Okmulgee,  Okla.                                             150  Inf.,  83   Div. 

Born  May  19,  1896,  Assumption;  pipe  fitter;  son  Mrs. 
Proserpine  Viseur,  Okmulgee,  Okla.;  enl.  May  27,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  assigned  150  Inf.,  38  Div.,  Camp  Shelby; 
sailed  Hoboken  Aug.  5,  1918;  landed  Liverpool;  returned 
as  casual.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Aug.  7,  1919;  one  brother  in 
service. 

5.  VOILES,   RAVMOXI)  Private 
St.   Louis,   Mo.                                 Co.  H,  130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Born  May  12,  1895,  Shelbyville;  machinist;  son  late  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Joseph  II.  Voiles,  Shelbyville;  enl.  June  21, 
1916,  in  Co.  H,  4th  III.  X.  G.,  made  Cpl.  July  5,  1917, 
Sgt.,  Sept.  5,  1917;  sailed  Iloboken  May  16,  1918:  landed 
Brest  May  28,  1918;  firing  line  July  2,  1918,  to  Xoy.  11, 
1918, — Albert,  Amiens,  Meuse-Argonne;  trf.  after  armistice 
to  272  Military  Police.  Dis.  June  25,  1919,  C.  Taylor,  Ky. 
Served  on  border  with  Co.  H  in  1916.  One  brother  in 
service. 

6.  VOX    HEIIREX.   THEODORE  A.  Private 
Strasburg,    111.                              Aux.    Remount    Depot   319 

Born  luly  18,  1885,  Strasburg;  farmer;  son  William  V. 
ami  Minnie  Von  Behren ;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  54  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade;  trf.  to  Aux.  Rem. 
Depot  319,  O.  M.  C.,  Aug.  10,  1918.  Dis.  March  31,  1919, 
Louisville.  Ky. 

7.  WADE.   IIF.XRY   EDWARD  Private 
Strasburg,   111.                                             Aux.  Remount  319 

Born  1891,  Strasburg,  111.;  son  of  John  and  Katherine 
Wade;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
54  Co.,  159  Depot  Brig.:  later  to  quartermaster,  Cam;> 
Taylor.  Dis.  May  26,  1919,  C.  Taylor. 

S.      WADE,  ORRIE  RAY  Corporal 

Shelbyville,    111.  Co.   H,    130    Inf.,   33    Div. 

Born  Tan.  11,  1895,  Lakewood  twp. ;  son  Willis  and  Mary 
Wade;  farmer;  enl.  June  4.  1917,  Co.  H,  130  Inf.:  trained 
Camp  Logan  as  gunner  and  bomber;  sailed  May  24,  1918; 
separated  from  Co.  H  June  17  and  sent  to  Replacement 
Bn.,  2nd  Army  Corps ;  was  company  commander  of  cas- 
uals:  sent  to  Co.  G  of  106th  Inf.,  27th  Div.,  on  Oct.  3. 
joining  them  in  front  line:  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse-Argonne, 
Verdun,  Meuse  River;  backed  30th  on  Hindenburg  line; 
wounded  at  St.  Souplet  Oct.  20,  slight  ankle  wound  (shrap- 
nel) and  gassed;  returned  to  27th  Dec.  16,  but  detached 
and  placed  in  charge  of  Illinois  casuals.  Dis.  April  5, 
1919,  C.  Grant. 

9.  WAFFORD,  JOHX  Private 
Pana,    111.  Co.    H 

Enl.  in  Shelbyville  with  Co.  II;  went  to  Camp  Logan 
Oct.  9.  His.  Xovember,  1917;  under  age. 

10.  WAGGOXER,  CARL  NORTON  Private,    Marines 
Shelbyville,   111.                           Co.  80,  6th  Reg.,  2nd  Div. 

Born  Dec.  14.  1898,  Shelbyville;  son  Edw.  and  Melia 
Waggoner;  traction  engineer;  enl.  Aug.  1,  1918;  sent  Paris 
Island,  Marines:  assigned  Co.  80,  6th  Reg..  2nd  Div.; 
sailed  Iloboken  Oct.  20,  1918;  landed  Brest  Nov.  3.  1918; 
in  trenches  from  Xov.  4  to  Nov.  11,  1918;  Army  of  Occu- 
pation. Dis.  Aug.  13,  1919,  Quantico,  Va. 


WAGGOXER.   CURTIS  Private 

Mmveaqua,   111.  Co.  B.   124  M.  G.  Bn.  33   Div. 

Enl.  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Co.  B..  124  Machine  Gun 
Bn.  33  Div.:  went  to  France  May,  1918;  under  tire  34 
days.  Dis.  Camp  Grant. 

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1.     WAKEFIELD,   EVERETT  H.  Sergeant 

Shelbyville,   111.  Co.  H,    130  Inf.,   33   Div. 

Born  Dec.  15,  1896,  Cowden  ;  son  of  C.  C.  and  Carrie 
Wakefiehl,  Detroit,  Mich.;  student;  enl.  May  25,  1917, 
Shelbyville,  with  Co.  II,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. ;  made  Cpl.  Dec. 

1.  1917,  Camp  Logan;   promoted  to  Sergeant  May  2,   1919, 
in    France;    sailed    May    16,    1918;    landed    Brest,    May    24, 
1918;  tiring  line  from  Aug.   11   to  Xov.   11,   1918;  Argonne, 
St.    Mihiel,    Somme,    Troyon ;    returned    with    Co.    H.     Dis. 
May  30,   1919,  C.  Grant. 

2.  WALDEX,  HAIRD  Private 
Tower  Hill,  111.                 2nd  Caisson  Co.,   108  Amm.  Tr. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  with  Co.  H,  in  July,  1917;  trf.  at  C'amp 
Logan  in  Nov.,  1917,  to  2nd  Caisson  Co.,  108  Amm.  Tr.  ; 
served  with  33rd  Div. ;  Meuse-Argonne,  Troyon.  Dis.  in 
June,  1919,  C.  Grant;  slightly  gassed. 

3.  WALKER,   MARK  II.  2nd   Lieutenant 
Windsor,   111.                                                   127   Aerial   Sqdn. 

Born  Sept.  1,  1889,  Windsor;  son  of  S.  A.  and  Jennie  C. 
Walker;  hanker;  enl.  Mattoon  Aug.  12,  1917;  assigned  to 
127  Aero  Squadron,  Kelly  Field;  made  1st  Sgt.  at  Kelly 
Field:  commissioned  2nd  Lieut.,  Sept.  8,  1918,  Quarter- 
master Dept. ;  sailed  from  Hoboken  Jan.  13,  1918;  landed 
Brest  Jan.  24,  1918;  returned  as  casual  and  dis.  July  9, 
1919,  C.  Dix. 

4.  WALKER.   ROSCOE    I!.  Private 
Windsor,   III.                                       Co.  I,  119  Inf.,  30  Div. 

Born  Feb.  27,  1891,  Windsor;  son  II.  L.  Walker;  farmer; 
enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Co.  1.  11') 
Inf.,  3-9  Div.,  Camp  Sevier,  S.  C. ;  sailed  Boston.  May  12. 
1918;  landed  Liverpool  May  27;  between  Dover,  Eng..  and 
Calais,  France,  collided  with  Russian  steamer,  1  killed, 
4  injured;  four  months  in  trenches;  Ypres,  St.  Quentin  : 
wounded  by  shrapnel  at  Bellicourt,  France ;  still  in  hos- 
pital at  Ft.  Sheridan. 

5.  WALLACE,   MORRIS  CLARK  Mechanic 
Windsor,  111.                                           Battery  D,  327  F.  A. 

Born  April  11,  1890,  Windsor;  son  T.  C.  Wallace.  Wind- 
sor; farmer;  enl.  Sept,  19,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
Battery  I).  327  F.  A.;  sailed  from  Xew  York  Sept.  8; 
landed  Liverpool.  Eng..  Sept.  21  ;  returned  with  327  F.  A. 
Feb.  19,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant. 

6.  WALLACE,   .NORMAN"   R.  Private    1st    Class 
Shelbyville,    111.                                 4th    Div.,    Co.    M,   59    Inf. 

Born  Feb.  6,  1894,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917, 
Shelbyville;  promoted  private  1st  class,  C'amp  Greene,  X. 
C.,  April,  1918;  trf.  from  Camp  Taylor  to  C'amp  Pike,  to 
C'amp  Greene,  assigned  4th  Div.,  Co.  M,  59  Inf.;  sailed 
from  Hoboken  May  5,  1918;  landed  Southampton,  May  12, 
1918;  went  to  trenches  July  10,  1918,  and  under  fire  prac- 
tically all  the  time  until  Xov.  11;  Chateau  Thierry,  Yesle 
River,  St.  Mihiel,  Meuse-Argonne,  Metz;  rifleman.  Dis. 
C.  Grant,  Aug.  12,  1919. 

7.  WALLACE,  WEXDELL  Sergeant 
Windsor,  111.                                           Co.   E,  217   Engineers 

Born  May  19,  1897,  Findlay  ;  son  Wm.  B.  Wallace,  Wind- 
sor; grain  dealer;  enl.  June  13,  1918,  St.  Louis;  assigned 
to  Co.  E,  217  Engineers;  promoted  to  Sgt.,  Camp  Hum 
phreys,  Aug.  15.  Dis.  Feb.  12,  C.  Pike,  Ark. 

8.  WARD,   CLAYTON  ARTHUR  Shelbyville.   111. 
Son   Chas.   Ward;   enl.   Shelbyville,  June  27,   1918;   sent   54 
Co.,    159   Depot   Brigade,  C'amp  Taylor;   later  trf.  to  Q.  M. 
C'.,   C'amp   Jos.    E.   Johnston,    Fla.,   and   then    overseas.      Dis. 
in   summer   of   1919.     One  brother.    Dell,   also   overseas. 

WARD,   DELL  Shelbyville,   111. 

Son   Charles   Ward,   Shelbyville ;    saw   service   overseas. 

WALKER,  VERNOX  Windsor,  111. 

Son  of  George  Walker  of  Brimdage,  Texas,  formerly  of 
Windsor ;  saw  much  overseas  service  as  a  member  o! 
regular  army. 

9.  WARD,    EDWARD   S.  Machinist    Mate    1st    Clas, 
Miami,    Fla.  U.    S.    Xavy 

Born  Jan.  18,  1894,  Findlay;  grandson  Bud  Ward,  Shelby- 
ville: enl.  Key  West  in  navy,  Dec.  15,  1917;  served  on  a 
subchaser  doing  coast  patrol  on  the  coast  of  Florida. 
Dis.  Feb.  5,  1919. 

10.  WATERS,  RALPH  CLAUDE  Private   1st   Clas, 
Findlay,   111.                                              Co.    C,    138   M.    G.    I'.n. 

Born  Oct.  8,  1890,  Ashmore ;  son  Frank  L.  and  Rebecca 
C'.  Waters;  grocery  clerk;  enl.  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville: 
assigned  Co.  C',  138  Machine  dun  Bn.,  C'amp  Shelby; 
sailed  Xew  York  Oct.  2,  1918;  landed  Southampton,  Oct. 

11.  1918;  returned  as  casual.     Dis.  July  30,  1919,  C.  Grant 

WILSOX,  CHARLES  1st  Cl.   Private 

Moweaqua.  Truck  Co.  E.  A.  A.  P.  C.  A.  C.  First  Army 
Enl.  March  13,  1918,  at  Roundup.  Mont.;  assigned  to 
Truck  Co.  E,  A.  A.  P.  C.  A.  C.  First  Army;  went  tn 
France  Sept.  1,  1918.  Dis.  as  1st  Class  Private  at  Ft. 
Russell,  Wyoming,  July  24,  1919. 

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1.  WAYMIRE.  GLENN   BEAULA  H.         Seaman   1st  C. 
Strasburg.   111.  U.  S.  Navy 

Born  Oct.  23,  1899,  Strasburg,  III. ;  son  Isaac  R.  and 
Nancy  Waymire,  Strasburg;  farmer;  enl.  June  11,  1918, 
Peoria ;  navy  ;  Great  Lakes  Training  Station  ;  promoted  to 
Seaman  1st  class,  June,  1919;  gunner;  on  Massachusetts, 
Aug.,  1918;  then  to  Rochester,  Feb.,  1919;  transport  ser- 
vice ;  five  trips  Brest  to  New  York ;  last  trip  was  in  the 
Transatlantic  Flight,  only  ship  to  go  the  entire  trip.  Dis. 
Aug.  13,  Great  Lakes. 

2.  WEAK  LEY,  HADLEY   E.  Private    1st    Cl. 
Assumption,   111.                                     78th   I)iv.,  307   F.  A. 

Horn  Nov.  12,  1895,  Shelby  county;  son  Rossea  Weakley, 
St.  Elmo;  electrician;  enl.  April  29,  1918,  Vandalia;  as- 
signed 307  Field  Artillery;  sailed  Hoboken  May  .24,  1918; 
landed  Liverpool  June  7;  on  front  '93  days;  St.  Mihiel, 
Meuse-Argonne ;  telephone  work;  returned  with  78  Div., 
307  F.  A.  Dis.  May  21,  C.  Grant. 

3.  WEATHERS,  GROVER  C.  Sergeant 
Findlay,   111.                                                         Co.    H.   54    Inf. 

Born  April  19,  1894,  Findlay;  son  John  Weathers;  me- 
chanic; enl.  May  10,  1918,  Shelby ville;  assigned  Co.  H, 
54  Inf.;  trf.  Co.  A,  6  Amm.  Train;  Sgt.  on  June  25; 
Chief  Expert  Mechanic  in  France,  Nov.  18;  sailed  from 
Newport  News,  June;  landed  Liverpool,  then  to  Le  Havre; 
Alsace  front,  58  days  in  action;  Argonne  defense  15  days, 
rntil  armistice.  Dis.  from  Co.  A,  6th  Amm.  Train,  C. 
Grant. 

4.  WEBB,  JOSEPH  OMER  Tailor 
Gays.  111.                                                      163  Coast  Artillery 

Born  Aug.  1,  1894,  Douglas  Co.,  111.;  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Joseph  II.  Webb,  Gays;  enl.  Jan.,  1915,  Mattoon,  111.; 
assigned  to  163  C'oast  Artillery;  private  1st  class  to  Me- 
chanic, April,  1919,  to  Cpl.,  Aug.,  1919,  as  company  tailor; 
sailed  September,  boat  hit  by  unknown  vessel,  number  of 
dead  about  15;  landed  Brest;  in  heavy  artillery  school 
when  armistice  signed ;  still  in  army  with  54  Artillery, 
C'.  A.  C. 

5.  WEBER,   EMERT   M.  Private 
Strasburg,  111.                                                                    14  Div. 

Born  Jan.  24,  1895,  Strasburg;  son  of  John  and  Marv 
Weber;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelby  ville ;  trained  for 
infantry  in  Camp  Custer ;  trf.  to  Camp  los.  E.  Tohnston, 
Fla.,  30  Co.,  14  Div.;  trf.  to  Camp  Taylor,  10  Co.  Dis. 
C.  Taylor,  Dec.  22,  1918. 

6.  WEBER.   MARTIN  HENRY  Private 

Strasburg,   111.  51    Pioneers 

Born  July  24,  1892,  Richland  twp. ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
T.  Weber,  Strasburg;  farmer;  enl.  May  2,  1918;  assigned 
Camp  Wadsworth,  S.  C. ;  sailed  July  26,  1918;  landed 
Brest;  in  two  engagements;  trained  as  rifleman;  returned 
with  51st  Pioneers.  Dis.  in  July,  C.  Grant.  One  brother 
in  service. 

7.  WELSH,  WALTER  O.  Private 
Clarksburg,   111.                                           327   Field  Artillery 

Born  July  8,  1895,  Clarksburg;  son  Silas  and  Zelda  Welsh; 
farmer;  enl.  Sept.  19,  1917,  Shelbyyille ;  assigned  to  327 
F.  A.,  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  to  West  Point,  April  1.  1918.  then 
to  Cam])  Mills;  sailed  from  Iloboken  Sept.  8,  1918;  landed 
Liverpool,  Sept.  22,  1918.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  Feb.  19,  1919. 

8.  WEMPEN,  RAY  Private 
Moweaqua,   111.                                                1105  Aero   Sqdn. 

Born  July  6,  1896,  Moweaqua;  son  Ed.  Wempen ;  auto 
mechanic;  enl.  Jan.  19,  1918,  Decatur ;  air  service;  as- 
signed 1 5th  Recruit  Co.,  Jefferson  Bks.,  Mo. ;  trf.  Camp 
Sevier,  S.  C.,  9th  Co.,  Feb.  3,  1918;  trf.  Camp  Merritt, 
N.  L.  3rd  Repl.  Squadron,  April  5;  sailed  April  23, 
1918;  landed  St.  Nazaire,  May  11,  1918;  stationed  avia- 
tion field  near  Clermont-Ferrand;  returned  with  1105  Aero 
Sqdn.  Dis.  June  2,  1919,  Camp  Mills,  L.  I. 


Flying  Sgt.,   1st  Cl. 
Aviation 


9.  WALLACE.   BERT   EARL 
Shelbyville,    111. 

Born  Nov.  1,  1898,  Shelbyville;  son  W.  O.  and  Mae  E. 
Wallace;  enl.  Feb.,  1918,  Rantoul,  Chanute  Field;  assigned 
aviation  section,  268  Aerial  Sqdn.,  enl.  Flyer  Dec.  12, 
1918,  promoted  Sgt.,  March  6,  1919,  Sgt.  1st  Cl.  June  17, 
1919;  trf.  St.  Paul  Aviation  Mach.  Training  School  May 
3,  1918;  to  St.  Charles,  La.,  Field,  Sept.  10,  1918;  to 
Kelly  Field,  Texas,  Sept.  23,  1918;  to  Hazelhurst  Field, 
New  York,  Oct.  28,  1918.  Dis.  there  April  25,  1919,  and 
re-enlisted,  aeroplane  tester,  Curtis  Company. 

10.  WALLACE,  OGDEN  Sergeant 
Shelbyville,    111.                                      Hq.   Co.,    15   U.   S.    Inf. 

Born  Sept.  8,  1896,  Shelbyville;  son  W.  O.  and  Mae  Wal- 
lace, Shelbyville;  clerk;  enl.  Dec.  13,  1916,  Houston.  Tex.; 
assigned  C'o.  L,  15  U.  S.  Inf.,  Tienstin,  China;,  stationed 
at  Amer.  Legation  there;  was  there  during  period  of  war. 
Served  with  Co.  H  on  border,  1916. 

WILSON.   ANSON   McD.  Moweaqua,   111. 

Knl.   Shelbyville.   May  23,   1918;   sent  to  Jeff.   Bks..   Mo. 

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WALKER,  RALPH    H.  Musician 

Herrick,    III. 

Enl.  Dec.  17.  1917,  Great  Lakes:  went  aboard  U.  S.  S. 
Pennsylvania  Flag  Ship  May  11,  1918;  Band  Sergeant 
with  "Sousa's"  1T.  S.  X.  R.  F.  Band ;  our  last  trip  to 
France  was  with  the  first  trip  of  the  president  in  De- 
cember, 1918.  Dis.  Xew  York  Jan.  22,  1919. 

1.  WARD,   RAYMOND  L.  Mode.   111. 
Enlisted    Shelbyville,    Sept.    5,    1918,    Camp    Custer ;    son    of 
A.  L.  Ward,   Mode,    111.;   trf.  Ry.   Engrs.,   Ft.    Benj.   Harri- 
son.     Dis.    Dec.,    1918. 

2.  WARXER.  WILEY  Cook 
Sigel,   111.                                                          Bat.  D,  21   F.  A. 

Born    Sigel;    son    C.    W.    Warner;    farmer;    enl.    Sept.    18, 

1917.  Shelbyville;    assigned   327    F.    A.,   Camp   Taylor;    trf. 
Camp    Wilson,    Texas,    Batt.    I),    21    F.    A.,   Jan.    26,    1918; 
sailed  Montreal,   May  26,  1918;  landed  Liverpool,  June   11; 
firing   line    107   days;    St.    Die,   St.    Mihiel,   Argonne,  Army 
of  Occupation.      Dis.  Sept.  6,  C.  Grant. 

3.  WEAKLEY,  C.  TEDDY  Corporal 
Moweaqua,    111.                             Co.   I,    119th  Inf.,   30   Div. 

Born  Sept.  II,  1889,  Moweaqua;  son  Jacob  and  Mary 
Weakley,  Assumption;  merchant;  enl.  Feb.  23,  1918,  Shel- 
byville; assigned  to  159  D.  B.,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.;  trf. 
Camp  Sevier,  Co.  I,  119  Inf.,  30  Div.,  March  23,  1918; 
sailed  Mav  12.  landed  Liverpool  May  27,  1918;  Ypres, 
Cammel  Hill,  Hindenburg  offensive;  returned  with  30th 
Div.,  M.  P.  Co.  Dis.  April  22,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

4.  WEBB,  J.  M.  Private 
Moweaqua.   111.                           Bradley  Polytechnic  School 

Enlisted  Shelbyville,  Sept.,  1918,  and  sent  to  the  Bradley 
School,  Peoria,  for  training.  Dis.  about  2  months  later. 

5.  WESTENHAVER,  BCRLEY  Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                                   Co.   H,   130th   Infantry 

Born  May  9,  1889,  Shelbyville;  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I. 
Westenhaver:  clerk;  enl.  July  23,  1917,  Shelbyville;  in- 
fantry; discharged  Dec.  13,  19|7,  C.  Logan;  disability. 
Called  to  Camp  Grant  for  limited  service,  Aug.,  1918; 
rejected. 

6.  WESTEXHAVER,  MARION  Mechanic 
Shelbyville,   111.                        Sup.  Co.,  130th  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Born  April  17,  1897,  Shelbyville;  son  Jerome  Westenhaver; 
shoemaker;  enl.  April  21,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H.  130 
Inf.,  33  Div.;  sailed  from  Hoboken  May  15,  1918;  landed 
Brest ;  Somme  sector,  Meuse- Argonne,  Troyon  sector  air.t 
Army  of  Occupation ;  returned  with  Co.  H  and  was  dis- 
charged May  31,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

7.  WESTERVELT,  FLOYD  C.  Sergeant  Q.    M.   C'. 
Findlay,   111.                                      Army   Transport  Service 

Born  April  10,  1891,  Shelbyville;  son  of  Dr.  J.  C.  and 
Mary  L.  Westervelt :  banker;  enl.  July  25.  1918,  Xew 
York  City  ;  assigned  Army  Transport  Service,  Port  of 
Embarkation;  appointed  Cpl.,  Aug.  19,  1918;  Sgt.  Oct.  4, 

1918,  at  Xew  York.     Dis.  March  19,  1919,  Xew  York  City. 
Finance   and    Accounting    Branch    of   A.    T.    S.    of    Port    of 
Embarkation,     paid    troops    going    overseas    and    returning 
and   had  charge  of  all   hospital   payments. 

8.  WHEAT,  JOHX   L.  Private 
Clarksburg,    111.                               Aux.    Remount   Depot   319 

Born  Aug.  28,  1893,  Clarksburg;  son  Wm.  and  Mary 
Wheat;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigne  1 
to  Quartermaster  Corps;  teamster  wagon  train  Xo.  3,  Aux. 
Remount  319,  Camp  Taylor.  Dis.  April  9,  1919,  C.  Taylor. 

9.  WHITT'ACRE,  BEXJAMIX  CLYDE  2d  Lieut. 
Stewardson,  111.                        Motor  Trans.   Corps,  4  Div. 

Born  July  4,  1886,  Stewardson;  son  Johnson  and  Ida 
Whittacre;  clerk  and  teacher;  enl.  Aug.  13,  1913,  Chicago; 
assigned  Motor  Trans.  Corps;  made  Sgt.  Dec.,  1917;  Sgt. 
1st  class,  Feb.,  1918;  Top  Sgt.,  March,  1918;  2nd  Lieut., 
April  29,  1919;  sailed  Feb.  28,  1918;  landed  Brest.  March 
3,  1918 ;  Champagne,  Marne,  Aisne-Marne,  St.  Mihiel  of- 
fensive, Argonne-Meuse ;  was  in  all  major  operations  with 
Rainbow  Division;  after  42nd  Div.  returned,  was  placed 
in  command  of  Service  Park  Unit  360,  M.  T.  C.  and 
joined  4th  Div.  Dis.  Aug.  28,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

Private 
14th    Inf. 
Taylor ; 
spring 


WIREY,   LEOXARD   F. 

Derrick,    111. 

Enl.    Shelbyville    June    28,    1918;    sent    to    Camp 

trfd.    in    Inly    to    Beauregard ;    in    hospital.      Dis.    in 

1919. 


WILSOX,   WALTER 


Stewardson, 


10.  WEAKLEY,  HOWARD  G.  Private    1st   Class 

Shelbyville,  111.  19th  Co.,  157  D.  B. 

Left  for  Camp  Gordon.  Ga.,  June  24,  1918;  assigned  to 
19th  Co..  5th  Training  lin.,  157  Depot  Brigade:  trf.  to 
Medical  Detachment,  Base  Hospital,  Camp  Gordon,  July 
10.  Dis.  March  5.  1919. 

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1.     WHITACRE,  EARI, 
Millersville,  111. 


Private  1st  Class 
Co.  H.   130  Inf.,  33  Div. 


Enlisted  with  Co.  H,  and  served  through  with  them  as 
Wagoner. 

WEI.TV,  ORION  R.  Private 
Findlay,  111.  Co.  A,  37  Inf. 
Enlisted  Shelbyvilte  May  23,  1918;  sent  to  Jefferson  Bar- 
racks; assigned  to  Co.  A,  37th  Inf.  Dis.  in  .August. 

2.  WHITAKER,  HORACE  BAIRD  Corporal 
Shelbyville,   111.                       Water  Tank   Tr.   302,    Co.    C 

Horn  May  13,  1896,  Sullivan;  son  Wm.  H.  and  Docle 
Whitaker;  student;  enl.  June  13,  1918,  Shelbyville;  as- 
signed Water  Tank  Train  302;  made  Cpl.,  Sept.  10.  1918; 
trf.  from  Training  School  l)et.  Co.  I,  Kansas  City,  to 
Holabird  Ilclq.,  Aug.  13,  1918;  trf.  Camp  Merritt  Hdq., 
Sept.  13,  1918;  sailed  Oct.  25,  1918;  landed  Liverpool 
Nov.  8,  1918;  served  from  Nov.  14,  1918,  to  July  4,  1919, 
in  Argonne  Forest;  no  battles;  returned  to  Camp  Grant. 
Ilis.  Aug.  5,  1919. 

WHITACRE,  JESSE  A.  Sergeant 

Strasburg,    III.  2nd   Amm.    Train 

Enl.  at  Jefferson  Barracks  April  23,  1914;  served  three 
years  in  Orient  as  member  of  8th  and  13th  Cavalry;  was 
trfd.  to  2nd  I)iv.  to  help  organize  2nd  Amm.  Train  at 
Chickamauga  Park,  da. ;  sailed  from  New  York  Jan.  8, 
1918:  landed  Liverpool  Jan.  24,  1918;  in  trenches  from 
March  28,  1918,  until  Nov.  11;  Verdun  offensive,  Belleau 
Wood,  Soissons,  Marne,  St.  Millie],  Mont  Blanc.  Cham- 
pagne-Marne;  gassed;  returned  with  2nd  Amm.  Train. 
Dis  Aug.  28,  1919,  San  Antonio.  Texas;  re-enlisted;  2nd 
Div.  captured  228  officers,  11,938  men,  343  big  guns,  1,350 
machine  guns ;  total  advance  60  kilometers. 

3.  WHITE,  ALMA  1st  Sergeant 
Tower  Hill,  111.                               Co.  II,   130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Enlisted  Shelbyville  with  Co.  H ;  served  through  with 
them;  Meuse-Argonne,  Troyon  sector,  Albert,  St.  Mihiel. 
l)is.  C.  Grant,  June,  1919. 

4      WHITE,  WALTER  LAWRENCE        1st  Lieut.  D.  C. 
Shelbyville,   111.  210   Field  Signal    Bn.,    10   Div. 

Born  Ian.  11,  1894,  Greenville;  son  Walter  C.  and  Mary 
Frances  White;  dentist;  com.  Sept.  4,  1917.  Springfield. 
111.;  assigned  to  active  duty  July  6,  1918,  210  Field  Signal 
Bn.,  10th  Div.,  Camp  Funston,  Kans.,  as  1st  Lieut.  Dental 
Reserve  Corps.  Dis.  Dec.  10,  1918,  C.  Funston,  Kans. 

5.     WHITTINGTON,  RAY  M.  Private 

Herrick,   111.  319  Aux.  Remount  Depot 

Born  May  7,  1893,  Herrick;  son  W.  H.  Whittington ; 
farmer;  enl.  Gillman,  111.,  June  27,  1918;  assigned  54  Co., 
159  Depot  Brigade.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  Remount  Depot,  April 
10,  1919. 

6      WHITLATCH,  EDGAR  LEOX  Private  1st  Cl. 

Stewardson,  111.  Batt.  D,  327  F.  A..  84  Div. 

Born  June  27,  1894,  Strasburg;  son  of  Belle  Whitlatch : 
farmer;  enl.  Oct.  2,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Halt.  D, 
327  F.  A.,  84  Div.,  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  49  Co.,  13  Bn., 
159  D.  B.,  then  to  1st  Co.,  1st  Dev.  Bn.,  159  D.  B.,  then 
to  Camp  Hq.  Co.  Dis.  March  11.  1919,  C.  Taylor. 


7      WHITROCK,  JOE 
Mode,  111. 


Private 

. Co.    B,    124    Engineers 

Enlisted  Shelbyville,  Sept.  3,  1918;  assigned  Co.  B,  124 
Engineers,  Camp  Forest  Lytle,  Ga.  Dis.  Dec.  28,  1919, 
C.  Custer. 


8. 


Corporal 
Co.  L,  58th  Inf.,  4    Div. 


WICKER,  ALVIS  L. 

Bethany,   111. 

Born  Aug.  10,  1898,  Taylorville;  son  Chas.  Wicker.  Beth- 
any; farmer;  enl.  Sept.  "  19,  1917,  Taylorville;  assigned  F. 
A  Co  D,  327  Regt.;  made  Cpl.,  Feb.,  1918,  Camp  Pike. 
Ark.;  sailed  from  Hoboken,  May,  1918;  landed  Liverpool, 
May,  1918;  saw  active  service  until  armistice  was  signed. 

9      WICKER,  JOHN  W.  Private  1st  Cl. 

Bethany,  111.  Co.  D,  F.  A.,  327  Regt. 

Born  Nov.  12,  1895,  Taylorville  ;  son  Chas.  and  Rose 
Wicker,  Bethany;  farmer;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  19,  1917; 
assigned  Co.  I),  F  A.,  327  Regt.  ;  promoted  M.  P.  at 
West  Point,  Ky.,  in  April,  1918;  sailed  from  Hoboken 
Sept.  5,  1918;  assigned  to  M.  P.  duty  at  Bordeaux,  France, 
when  the  327th  sailed  for  home. 


10.  WILBURN.  JOHN 
Shelbyville,  111. 


Color  Sergeant 
Co.  H.  130  Inf. 

Born  May  1,  1874,  Moultrie  Co.;  member  of  Co.  H  since 
Feb  17,  1903;  served  in  Co.  continuously  in  various  capaci- 
ties, Corporal,  Sergeant  and  Color  Sergeant  of  regiment: 
served  9  months  on  border  in  1916-17  as  Sergeant.  Dis. 
March  5,  1918,  as  Color  Sergeant  of  130  Inf.,  on  account 
of  disability. 

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1.  WILEY,  CLINTON  Sergeant 
Toledo,   111.                                                        Co.   H,   130   Inf. 

Member  of  Co.  H,  in  training  at  Camp  Logan  ;  sailed  May 
16,  1918,  from  Hoboken  on  Agamemnon;  landed  Brest 
May  24,  1918;  served  throughout  with  Co.  Dis.  C.  Grant 
spring  of  1919. 

2.  WILEY,  WM.  R.  Corporal 
Beecher  City,  111.                               Co.  A,  312   Mil.   Police 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  19,  1917;  sent  C.  Taylor;  trf.  C. 
Pike,  Ark. ;  made  Cpl.  in  Jan. ;  later  made  military  police 
and  continued  as  police  throughout  war ;  trf.  to  C.  Dix 
in  June  and  sailed  Sept.  25  for  France;  in  hospital  in 
France;  returned  to  U.  S.  on  hospital  ship  "Mercy";  sent 
to  Ft.  Riley,  Kans.  Dis.  latter  part  of  Feb.,  1919. 

3.  WILLIAMS,  CHARLES  I).  Private 
Trowbridge,  III.                                         102   M.   C...  26   Div. 

Born  Dec.  15,  1895,  Pierson  Station;  son  II.  M.  Williams, 
Trowbridge:  farmer;  eril.  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent 
C.  Shelby,  Miss. ;  assigned  to'  Co.  C,  138  M.  G.,  38  Div. ; 
in  training  4  mos. ;  sailed  Hoboken  Oct.  2,  1918;  landed 
Southampton,  Oct.  9;  joined  26  Div.  at  Verdun  on  Xov. 
13,  1918.  Dis.  C.  Grant  April  26,  1919. 

4.  WILLIAMS,   GEORGE   W.  Private 
Shclhyville,   111.                                   Co.  H,   363   Inf.,  91    Div. 

Born  Jan.  6,  1893,  Shelbyville;  son  Asa  Williams;  painter ; 
enl.  June  15,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  Bradley  Polytechnic 
Institute,  Peoria,  for  training  as  gunsmith;  Aug.  15  trf. 
Co.  It,  335  Inf.,  84  Div.,  C.  Sherman;  in  training  2J/2 
.mos. ;  sailed  Quebec,  Canada,  Sept.  2,  1918;  landed  Liver- 
pool. Sept.  16;  in  camp  near  Bordeaux;  in  trenches  12 
days,  Belgian  front ;  regiment  captured  Audenorde ;  in 
hospital  2  weeks  with  influenza  during  which  time  trf.  to 
91  Div.  Dis.  C.  Grant  April  25,  1919. 

5.  WILLIAMS,  ROY  Private 
Shelbyville,  111.                                  Co.  M,  160  Depot  Brig. 

Enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Custer, 
Mich.;  assigned  to  Co.  M,  160  Depot  Brigade.  Dis.  C. 
Custer. 

6.  WILSON,  CHARLES  Sergeant 
Altamont                                            Co.  II,  130  Inf.,  33   Div. 

Member  of  Co.  II,  in  training  at  C.  Logan ;  sailed  from 
Hoboken  May  16;  landed  Brest  May  24;  served  as  Sgt. 
with  Co.  H  throughout  overseas  service;  wounded  by 
shrapnel  on  night  Xov.  10.  Returned  and  discharged  with 
Co.  at  C.  Grant  in  spring,  1919. 

7.  WILSON,  CHARLES  1st   Cl.    Private 
Strasburg,  111.                            Bat.  C,  308  F.  A..  78  Div. 

Born  July  14,  1890,  Strasburg;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
Wilson,  deed.;  enl.  Apr.  30,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to 
Camp  Dix;  assigned  to  Bat.  C,  308  F.  A..  78  Div.:  in 
training  26  days;  sailed  from  Iloboken  May  26,  1918; 
transport,  Cedric ;  landed  Liverpool,  June  7,  1918;  to 
trendies  Aug.  16,  there  until  Xov.  11;  at  St.  Mihiel,  Ar- 
gonne,  Suippe,  Grand  Pre :  lead  driver  on  caisson.  Dis. 
C.  Grant,  May  27,  1919. 


8.  WILSON,  JOHX  W.  Private 
Shelbyville,   111.                                                     144    F-ngineers 

Born  1891,  Shelbyville;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  C. 
Wilson,  Shelbyville;  farmer;  married  June,  1918,  Muriel 
Johnson:  enl.  Sept.  13,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to 
Armour  Inst.,  Chicago;  trf.  Oct.  27  to  144  Engrs.,  at  C. 
Shelby,  Miss.;  sent  C.  Taylor  and  dis.  Dec.  14.  1918. 

9.  WIREY.  JOHX  H.  Private 
Tower  Hill,   111.                             Field   Remount   Squadron 

Born  Sept.  23,  1890,  Tower  Hill;  son  W.  H.  Wirey ; 
farmer;  enl.  Shelbyville,  June  27,  1918;  sent  Camp  Tay- 
lor: assigned  F.  A.  R.  D. ;  trf.  C.  Joseph  E.  Tohnston,  Co. 
1,  A.  R.  D.,  Oct.,  1918;  trf.  to  C.  Merritt,  Oct.,  1918;  in 
training  3  mos.;  sailed  from  Xewport  News  Xov.  9,  1918; 
overseas  camp,  St.  Xazaire :  taking  care  of  horses;  in 
hospital,  influenza;  returned  with  Field  Remount  Sqdn. 
Dis.  C.  Taylor,  July  7,  1919. 

10.  WOMACK,  EARL  J.  Ensign 
Windsor,  111.                                                          U.  S.  Xavy 

Enl.  May  18,  1917,  Peoria,  111.;  navy;  assigned  to  Great 
Lakes,  111.  Dis.  April  22,  1919,  at  Pelham  Bay,  X.  Y. 

\V<  il. FT.   RALPH   R.  Private 

Stewardson,  111.  21    Inf.    16   Div. 

Born  April  26,  1890,  Stewardson  ;  son  Henry  Wolff,  Stew- 
ardson :  painter;  enl.  June  1,  1918,  at  Chicago:  army;  as- 
signed to  21  Inf.,  16  Div.,  Jeff.  Bks. ;  trfd.  to  Balboa  Park, 
June  11.  1918;  to  C.  Kearney  Sept.  14,  1918;  to  Ft.  D.  A. 
Russell.  Feb.  17,  1919;  to  Camp  Grant  June  28,  1919; 
in  training  14  months.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  30.  1919;  one 
brother  in  service. 

WIXXIXGS,   LESTER  H.  Gays,   111. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Sept.  5,  1918;  assigned  to  C.  Custer; 
served  through  here  and  discharged  Feb.  3,  1919. 

WIAXDT,    KEXXETH  Private 

Strasburg.    111.  7th    Div. 

F'nl.  Clinton,  111.;  assigned  to  7th  Div.;  went  overseas; 
shell  shocked. 

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1.     WOOD,   HARLEY  First   Lieut. 

Windsor,  III.  19  Div..  Vet.  C. 

Horn  1888;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  L.  Wood,  Effingham, 
111;  married  June  6,  1917,  to  Xelle  Hancock,  dau.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Jas.  Hancock,  Windsor;  veterinary  surgeon  ;  enl. 
July  19,  1917,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  army;  received  com.  as 
2nd  I.ieut.,  Aug.  8,  1917;  placed  in  reserve  and  reported 
for  duty  June  17,  1918,  at  Medical  Officers  Training  Camp 
at  C'amp  Greenleaf,  Cia. ;  trf.  to  Camp  Dodge  to  19  Div., 
Sept.  2,  with  rank  of  2d  I.ieut.  Vet.  Corps;  promoted  to 
1st  I.ieut.,  Sept.  21,  at  Camp  Dodge.  Dis.  C.  Dodge,  Feb. 

1.  1919. 

2.  WOODS,  A.  HARRY  Private 
Findlay,  111.                                        Co.  I,   119  Inf.,  30  Div. 

Salesman  ;  son  Mrs.  Martha  Woods,  Findlay ;  enl.  Feb. 
22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor,  assigned  159 
Depot  Brigade;  trf.  Co.  I,  119  Inf.,  30  Div.,  C.  Sevier;  in 
training  2  mos. ;  sailed  Boston  May  12,  1918;  transport, 
Knglish  Leomeam ;  landed  Eng.,  May  27,  France  May  28; 
at  Ypres  salient,  in  front  line  trenches  from  July  31  to 
Aug.  9,  1918;  over  top  last  Sunday  in  August;  much  time 
in  Aug.  in  shell-swept  area  behind  front  lines;  Belliconrt 
on  Hindenburg  line,  France,  Sept.  29  to  Oct.  1  ;  Busigny, 
Oct.  10  and  11;  St.  Souplet,  Oct.  19;  on  duty  with  Hq. 
119  Inf.  in  Hindenburg  drive;  slight  shell  wound.  Dis. 
April  14,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

3.  WOODWORTH,  RAY  C.  Private 
Decatur,  111.                                  46  Co.,  160  Depot  Brigade 

Horn  1894,  Mt.  Vernon ;  son  Mrs.  Mary  B.  Woodworth, 
Shelbyville;  salesman;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent 
Camp  Custer;  assigned  46th  Co.,  160  Depot  Brigade;  in 
training  3  mos.  13  days.  Dis.  Dec.  18,  1918. 

4.  WOOI.ARD,   EDGAR  Private 
Oconcc,   111.                                                        Hq.   Co.,   13   F.   A. 

Born  July  9,  1886,  Oconee ;  son  Wm.  A  Woolard;  fore- 
man; enl.  July  24,  1918,  Toledo,  Ohio;  assigned  15  Bat- 
tery F.  A.  R.  I).,  Camp  Tackson,  S.  C. ;  in  training  15 
days;  sailed  Aug.  23,  1918;  landed  Brest,  Sept.  3,  1918; 
in  Camp  Hunt,  France;  in  trenches  31  days,  at  Meuse- 
Argonne  off..  Army  of  Occupation ;  scout  and  signalman ; 
in  hospital  for  operation;  returned  casual  patient.  Dis. 
Aug.  16,  1919,  Ft.  Sheridan. 

5.  WOOI.ARD,   HOWARD   M.  Private 
Oconee.   111.                                                 102  Engrs.,  27  Div. 

Born  March  29,  1892,  Oconee;  son  Wm.  A.  and  Louise 
Woolard;  farmer;  enl.  June  14,  1918,  Shelbyville:  assigned 
Rahe  Auto  School,  Kansas  City;  Aug.  15  trf.  Washington 
Bks. ;  trf.  Dec.  19  from  2nd  Co.,  O.  A.  R.  D..  to  102 
Kngrs.,  27  Div.;  in  training  4  months;  sailed  Oct.  20, 
1918;  landed  Liverpool  Oct.  31;  in  training  at  Angers, 
France.  Dis.  C.  Grant  April  5,  1919;  one  brother  in 
service. 

6.  WOOLARD,  JAMES  C.  Seaman 
Herrick,  111.                                                               U.  S.  Navy 

Son  Brusha  and  Ida  Woolard;  born  Oconee,  Feb.  11.  1897; 
enl.  U.  S.  Navy  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  July  8,  1918;  served  at 
Great  Lakes,  Hampton  Roads,  Ya.,  and  on  battleship  U. 
S.  S.  Illinois,  in  the  engineering  division.  Released  at 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  April  15,  1919. 

7.  WORLEY,  EDMOXD  A.  First  Lieut. 
Shelbyville,   111.                                 Inf.    Replacement   Camp 

Born  Shelbyville,  Nov.  3,  1893;  son  Charles  T.  Worley ; 
lield  clerk,  Indian  Service,  Oklahoma;  enl.  Xowata,  Okla., 
Sept.  5,  1917:  assigned  Co.  E,  358  Inf.,  90  Div.,  C.  Travis; 
trf.  C.  Lee,  Va. :  promoted  Cpl.,  Oct.  1  ;  Sgt..  Xov.  1. 
1917;  attended  O.  T.  C.  at  C.  Travis;  July  1,  1918,  com- 
missioned 2nd  Lieut.;  Aug.  15,  1918,  made  1st  Lieut. 
Dis.  C.  Lee,  March,  1919. 

8.  WORLEY,  RAYMOXD  M.  Mechanic 
Shelhyville,   111.                               Co.  H,   130  Inf..  33   Div. 

Born  Feb.  4,  1893,  Shelbyville;  son  Henry  Worley;  me- 
chanic; enl.  April,  1917,  Shelbyville,  Co.  H;  made  Co. 
mechanic  Oct.,  1917,  at  Camp  Logan,  Texas;  in  training 
10  months;  sailed  from  Hoboken  May  16;  transport  Aga- 
memnon ;  landed  Brest  May  24 ;  served  with  Co.  H 
throughout  service ;  at  Hamel,  Morlancourt,  Albert,  Ver- 
dun, Meuse-Argonne,  St.  Mihiel ;  runner.  Dis.  C.  Grant 
May  30,  1919. 

9.  WORTMAX,  HUGH   M.  1st  CI.   Private 
Shelbyville,    111.                                           Co.    C,    76    Engineers 

Born  July  5,  1896,  Clarksburg;  son  Albert  Wortman,  Shel- 
byville; farmer;  enl.  Aug.  14,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to 
X.  W.  Univ.  for  training  and  then  Xov.  4  to  Ft.  Meyer, 
Va..  and  assigned  to  Co.  C,  76  Engrs.,  trf.  to  Camp  Leach, 
D.  C.,  to  Co.  B,  same  Regt. ;  construction  work.  Dis.  C. 
Grant  Dec.  27.  1918. 

10.  WRIGHT,  CLOYD  Sergeant 
Cowden,  111.                          Med.  Del.,  327   Field  Artillery 

Born  Feb.  4,  1890,  Cowden;  son  W.  W.  Wright:  married 
1917,  Edith  Grace  Lockart ;  one  dau.,  Clarissa  Mae.  born 
March  16,  1919;  teacher;  enl.  Oct.  2,  1917,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  Bat.  D,  327  Field  Artillery;  in  training  11  mos.; 
sailed  Hoboken  Sept.  8,  1918;  transport  Orduna ;  landed 
Liverpool  Sept.  21;  promoted  to  Sgt.  M.  D.,  at  Camp 
De  Souge,  France;  work,  Supply  Sergeant.  Dis.  C.  Grant 
Feb.  19,  1919. 

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1.  WRIGHT,  WILLIAM   B.  Private 
Oconee,  111.                                                          Co.   E,  32  Div. 

Knl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor; 
assigned  to  Co.  E,  32  Div. ;  went  to  France  in  Aug. ;  under 
tire  6  weeks ;  gassed.  Dis.  in  April  at  C.  Grant. 

2.  VAKEY,  JAMES   MURVIN  Corporal 
Shelbyville,  111.                                Co.  II,  130  Inf.,  33  Div. 

Horn  1892,  Shelbyville;  school  teacher;  son  Grant  Yakey. 
Mode;  cnl.  June  5,  1917,  Shelbyville,  in  Co.  H,  130  Inf.; 
promoted  Cpl.  June  13,  1918;  went  overseas  May  15,  1918; 
tiring  line  July  11;  1918,  to  Xov.  11,  1918;  Somme  sector, 
Meuse-Argonne,  Troyon  sector,  and  Army  of  Occupation  ; 
returned  with  Co.  II.  Dis.  May  30,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

VAXTIS,   .MISS   ETHEL  Nurse 

Moweaqua,    111. 

Graduated  about  six  years  ago  from  the  Post  Graduate 
Hospital,  Chicago;  enl.  2  years  ago,  serving  at  C.  Grant 
for  some  time ;  trfd.  to  Fort  Sheridan,  where  she  re- 
mains. 

3.  YOAKUM,  HERMAN  J.  Sergeant 
Springfield,  111.                                                           Air  Service 

Born  Nov.  10,  1892,  Sangamon  Co.,  111.;  mechanic;  son  T. 
F.  and  Lora  T.  Yoakum,  Findlay ;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917, 
Shelbyville;  assigned  327  F.  A.;  trf.  Dec.  3,  1917,  to  air 
service,  Kelly  Field;  promoted  Sgt.,  May  20,  1918.  Dis. 
Jan.  22,  1919,  Centner  Field,  La. 

4.  YORK,  ROBERT  STANLEY  Private 
Cowden,  111.                                           Co.  D,  52  Inf.,  6  Div. 

Born  Feb.  11,  1894,  Lerna,  111.;  farmer;  son  Chas.  V. 
York,  Cowden;  enl.  lune  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned 
54  Co.,  159  D.  B.,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky. ;  trf.  Co.  F,  154 
Inf.,  39  Div. ;  went  overseas  Aug.  6 ;  landed  Brest  Aug. 
19;  trf.  to  6th  Div.,  52  Inf.,  Co.  D,  in  Alsace-Lorraine; 
in  reserve  in  Argonne  with  6th.  Dis.  June  20,  1919,  C. 
Grant. 

5.  YOUNG,  CHAS.  H.  Sergeant 
Shelbyville,  111.                                             Co.   II.   130th  Inf. 

Born  Aug.  12,  1896,  Greenfield;  son  Wm.  R.  and  Mary  E. 
Young,  Shelbyville;  enl.  Aug.  11,  1914;  served  with  Co.  H 
on  border  duty,  1916;  went  overseas  May  16,  1918;  landed 
Brest  May  24,  1918;  battles  Somme  front,  Meuse- Argonne 
offensive;  promoted  to  Cpl.,  Aug.  1,  1917,  to  Sgt.,  Sept. 
1,  1917;  returned  as  casual.  Dis.  Mar.  18,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

6.  YOUNG,  GORDON  V.  Corporal 
Oconee,  111.                                         124  M.  G.  Bn..  33   Div. 

Born  Oct.  2,  1896,  Oconee;  school  teacher;  son  P.  W. 
and  Flora  E.  Young;  enl.  July  28,  1917,  Decatur ;  assigned 
Co.  L,  5th  111.  Inf.;  promoted  Cpl.  in  France;  went  over- 
seas May  16,  1918;  landed  Brest  May  24,  1918;  tiring  line 
July  11,  1918;  Albert,  Verdun,  St.  Mihiel  salient,  Somme 
and  Meuse-Argonne  off.;  trf.  to  M.  G.,  Oct.  12,  1917,  and 
Co.  Clerk  after  Nov.  11,  1918;  returned  with  Co.  A,  124 
M.  G.  Bn.  Dis.  May  30,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

YOUNG,    CLARENCE  Corporal 

Shelbyville,    111.  654  U.   S.   Aero   Sqdn. 

Enl.  previous  to  declaration  of  war;  served  in  654  U.  S. 
Aero  Sqdn. 

YOUNG,  GARRETT  H.  Private 

Neoga,   111.  Co.  A.  37th  Inf. 

Inducted  May  23,  at  Shelbyville,  111.  Unassigned  37  Inf., 
May  26,  1918  to  Aug.  11,  1918;  Co.  A,  37  Inf.,  Aug.  12, 
1918,  until  discharged.  Dis.  March  22,  1919;  rank  Private 
1st  Class. 

7.  YOUNG,  RAY  Corporal 
Neoga,  111.                                                                  327th  F.  A. 

Born  Oct.  8,  1895,  Neoga;  farmer;  son  James  H.  Young, 
Neoga;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  327th 
F.  A.;  promoted  Cpl.,  Feb.  4,  1918;  went  overseas  Sept.  8, 
1918;  landed  Liverpool,  Eng.,  Sept.  21;  returned  with 
327th  F.  A.  Honorable  dis.  Feb.  19,  1919.  One  brother 
in  service. 

8.  YARBROUGH,  CHAS.  S.  Stewardson,    HI. 
Enl.   Sept.    5,    1918,    Shelbyville;    assigned   to   Headquarters 
Co.,  Camp  Custer;  rejected  Sept.  7,  1918.     One  brother  in 
2d  Div. 

9.  YARBROUGH,  HARRY  S. 

See  record,  first  page  of  Honor  Roll. 

ZIXDELL,  HERMAN   F.  Private 

Moweaqua,   111. 

Enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  54th  Co.,  Camp 
Taylor,  Ky. 

10.  DOBBS,  ROBERT  J.  Private 
Herrick,   111.                                                        Depot   Brigade. 

Son  of  A.  B.  Dobbs,  Herrick;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918;  assigned 
Camp  Custer;  trfd.  Camp  Sherman.  Dis.  early  in  1919  as 
Private  in  Depot  Brigade. 

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13 


r 


G.  E.  Agney 


H.  Anderson 


E.  Allen         L.  C.  Habcock 


C.  Banks 


C.  Barton 


E.  Batson 


G.  E.  Bayless 


rn    July    20,    1885,    Decatur;    electrician; 
s,    Moweaqua;    enl.    Sullivan    Oct.    8,    19 


1st   Sergeant 
130   Inf.,   33    Div. 
son    Charles    O.    Ad- 


ADAMS,  IBRA  A. 
Moweaqua,   111. 
Born   . 

ams,  Moweaqua;  enl.  Sullivan  Oct.  8,  1917.,  Co.  C,  130  Inf., 
33  Div. ;  Corporal ;  trained  9  mos.,  C.  Logan ;  sailed  Hoboken 
May  16,  1918;  landed  Brest:  firing  line  Aug.  3  to  Nov.  11: 
Albert,  Meuse-Argonne,  St.  Mihiel,  Verdun  sector;  wounded 
slightly ;  regiment  twice  cited  by  British,  once  by  French ;  Div. 
cited  by  Pershing;  returned  as  casual.  Dis.  C.  Grant  March 
18,  1919. 


ADAMS,   RALPH 


Moweaqua,    111. 


ADKINS,  AMOX  Private 

Moweaqua,   111.  Co.  M,  3  Inf. 

Born  Feb.  16,  1897,  Hardin  Springs,  Ky. ;  farmer;  son  of  Jake 
and  Belle  Adkins,  Big  Clifty,  Ky. ;  enl.  June  1,  1918,  Decatur, 
111. ;  in  training  16  mos.,  Jefferson  Barracks  and  Eagle  Pass. 
Dis.  Sept.  19,  1919. 

AGNEY,  GEORGE  E.  Private 

Holland,    111.  Hdq.    Co.,    119   Inf.,   30    Div. 

Enl.  Feb.  22,  1918;  sent  C.  Taylor;  trf.  Hdq.  Co.  119  Inf.,  C. 
Sevier,  S.  C. ;  overseas  May  11;  brigaded  with  British  July  27 
at  Ypres;  both  battles  Ypres,  Voormezeele,  Bellicourt,  Fremont, 
Busigny,  Escaufort,  St.  Brenin,  St.  Souplet,  Ribeaucourt,  Ma- 
zenhein ;  was  in  trenches  until  Oct.  20  continuously.  Outfit 
broke  Hindenburg  line  at  Bellicourt. 

AGNER,   ALBERT    LAWRENCE  Pana,    111. 

Enl.  through  Local  Board,   1917. 

AXDERSON,  HENRY  Corporal 

Sigel,   111.  49th  Aero  Squadron 

Born  April  12,  1896,  Hjorring,  Denmark;  son  Jens  Anderson, 
Hjorring,  Denmark;  dairyman;  enl.  Oct.  2,  1917,  Shelbyville ; 
sent  327  F.  A.,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky. ;  trf.  Kelly  Field ;  trained  7 
mos. ;  sailed  New  York  May  2 ;  landed  Liverpool ;  at  Toul,  St. 
Mihiel,  Verdun.  Dis.  March  27,  1919.  See  page  50. 

ALLEX,  ELMER  Private 

Shelbyville,  111.  Co.  N,  127  Inf.,  32  Div. 

Born  Dec.,  1889,  Shelby  Co.;  son  James  Allen,  Shelbyville; 
miner;  enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  trained  one  month,  C. 
Taylor  and  C.  Beauregard;  sailed  Xewport  News,  Aug.  6,  1918: 
landed  Brest;  firing  line  2  mos.;  Meuse-Argonne ;  outfit  cited 
by  Pershing.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  19,  1919. 

ALLGOOD,  ROY   E.  Windsor.   111. 

En!.  Shelbyyille,  HI.,  May  27,  1918;  sent  Camp  Shelby,  Hat- 
tiesburg.  Miss.;  was  in  151  Inf.  Hdq.  Co.  about  3  mos.  and 
trfd.  to  Quartermaster  about  6  mos.  Dis.  Feb.  7,  1919,  at 
Camp  Shelby,  Hattiesburg,  Miss. 

BABCOCK,  LESTER  CLYDE 

Oconee,  III.  53  Co.,   159  Depot   Brig. 

Enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor,  53rd  Co., 
159th  Depot  Brigade. 

BANKS,  CHARLES  C.  Windsor,  111. 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tolin  Banks,  Windsor;  farmer;  went  to  Camp 
Taylor  June  28,  1918;  there  until  fall,  trf.  to  Ft.  Porter,  Buf- 
falo, N.  Y.,  where  he  cared  for  returned  wounded  soldiers.  Dis. 
Oct..  1919. 


BARTON,   CHESTER  R.  Private    1st   Class 

Shelbyville,  111.  Co.  H,  130th  Infantry 

Enl.    June    2,    1917,    Shelbyville;  at    Meuse-Argonne    offensive, 

Somme,  Amiens  sector,  Troyon  sector,  Army  of  Occupation. 
Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  30,  1919. 

BATSON,  EDDIE  Corporal 

Windsor,  III.  159th  Depot  Brigade 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Feb.  23;  assigned  to  18  Co.,  159  Depot  Bri- 
gade; sickness  prevented  overseas  service;  made  Cpl.  at  Taylor: 
trf.  fall  of  1918,  to  Engineers  at  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison,  Indiana, 
and  discharged  in  spring  of  1919. 

BAYLESS.  GEORGE  E.  Moweaqua,  111. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  19,  1917;  was  sent  to  C.  Taylor;  trf.  C. 
Pike,  Nov.  16  and  to  C.  Green  as  replacement,  March  10,  1918; 
served  at  C.  Green. 

BEARD,  PRESS  Windsor.  111. 

Went  with  the  draft  of  May  27  to  Hattiesburg,  Miss.,  and  was 
assigned  to  38  Division,  C.  Shelby. 

BECHTEL,  REX  HENRY  Panama,  111. 

Son  Fuller  Bechtel,  Cowden;  miner;  enl.  Shelbyville,  May  27; 
sent  C.  Shelby;  saw  active  service  overseas.  Dis.  summer,  1919. 

BECHTEL,  BRYAN  Cowden,  111. 

Son  of  Fuller  Bechtel,  Cowden  ;  saw  active  service  in  France. 

BRIDGES,  FRED  Neoga,  111. 

Went  to  C.  Taylor,  June  28,  1918,  and  was  assigned  to  53  Co., 
159  D.  B. 

BROWN,  CHARLES  Findlay,  111. 

Enlisted  Oct.  3,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  C.  Tayjor;  arrived 
overseas  June  1,  1919;  in  several  engagements  with  the  115 
Field  Artillery,  30  Div.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  April  11,  1919. 

BROWX,  LEWIS  1st  Class  Private 

Moweaqua,  111.  Co.  M,  119  Inf.,  30  Div. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Feb.  23,  1918;  sent  C.  Taylor,  Ky. ;  trf.  in 
March  to  C.  Sevier,  S.  C.,  and  assigned  Co.  M,  119  Inf.;  sailed 
May  11,  1918:  was  at  Ypres,  Voormezeele,  Bellicourt,  Escau- 
fort, St.  Bremin,  St.  Souplet,  Ribeauville.  Mazenheim. 


BROWNBACK,  ROBT.  L. 


Tower  Hill,  111. 


Enl.  Shelbyville,  May  27,  1918;  sent  C.  Shelby,  Miss.;  went 
overseas  with  38  Division.  Dis.  in  summer  of  1919. 

BRUNER    ALONZO  ORLEY  Private 

Tower  Hill,  111.  Co.   E,  22nd  Engrs. 

Born  April  14,  1889,  Kenna,  111.;  son  Wm.  Bruner,  Tower  Hill; 
miner;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  53rd  Co.,  159 
D.  B.,  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  July  15,  1918,  Co.  E,  22nd  Engrs., 
Camp  Leach,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  sailed  Sept.  1  ;  landed  at  Glas- 
gow;  in  trenches  5  weeks;  at  St.  Mihiel,  Chateau  Thierry,  Ar- 
gonne  offensive;  returned  to  U.  S.  with  29th  Div.  as  casual. 
Dis.  C.  Grant  May  30,  1919. 

STEPHEN  J.  BUSHUR  Sigel,  111. 

Enl.  Shelbyville.  June  27,  1918;  was  sent  C.  Taylor  to  53  Co., 
159  Depot  Brigade. 


P.  Ileanl 


R.  H.  Bechtel  F.  Bridges  C.  Brown 


L.  Brown        R.  L.  Brownback      A.  Bruner  S.  J.  Bushur 

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C.W.Cameron      E.S.Campbell         L.  C.  Cannon          1 .  J.  Chapman       J.  Chappell         15.  Cheatham  I,.  T.  Clark  A.  R.  Clow 


CALVIX,    RALPH   V.  1st.    Cl.    Private 

Windsor,  111.  San.  Squad  Xo.  6,  Med.  Dept. 

Enl.  at  Mattoon  Dec.  8.  1917;  went  to  France  Feb.  8,  1918, 
and  spent  14  mos.  overseas;  landed  in  U.  S.  April  20,  1919. 
Dis.  at  Camp  Grant  May  3,  1919. 

CAMEROX,  CHAS.  W.  Private 

Stewardson,   111.  Co.  F,   113th  Engineers 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  May  27,  1918 ;  sent  Camp  Shelby,  Miss.,  and 
assigned  Co.  F,  113  Engrs.;  in  France  from  Sept.  15,  1918,  to 
June  19,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant  June  26,  1919. 

CAMPBELL,  EARL  S. 

Danville,   111.  113   Field   Signal   Bn. 

Sent  with  Shelby  Co.  quota  to  Camp  Shelby  on  May  27,  1919; 
son  Thomas  and  Mary  Campbell,  Bethany ;  served  overseas  with 
113th  Field  Signal  Bn.  Three  brothers  in  service;  one  sister. 

CAXXOX,  LESTER  C.  Private 

Tower   Hill,   111.  Co.   C,   138   M.   G.   Co. 

Born  Sept.  15,  1891,  Tower  Hill,  111.;  son  late  Robert  and  Julia 
Cannon;  enl.  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Shelby;  trained 
6  weeks;  sailed  Hoboken,  July  7,  1918;  landed  Brest  July  18, 
trf..  Postal  Exp.  Service  in  R.  R.  mail  branch  from  Tour  to 
Chaumont  R.  P.  O. ;  returned  U.  S.  as  casual  with  77  Div. 
Dis.  May  20,  1919.. 

CHAPMAX,  JESSE  J.  Private 

Moweaqua,  111.  Pop.  Casual   Det.   Co. 

Enl.  April  30,  1918,  Shelbyville;  army;  assigned  to  L941932 
Pop.  Casual  Detachment  Co.,  Amatol,  X.  J. ;  discharged  at 
Amatol,  X.  J.,  March  29,  1919. 


Private 

Post  Hdq.  Co. 
Dis.    Dec.    22,    1918, 


CHAPPELL,  JOHX 

Moweaqua,  111. 

Enl.    June    27,    1918,    Shelbyville;    farmer. 

Ft.   Benj.   Harrison,   Ind. 

CHEATHAM,  EARL  E.  Corporal 

Moweaqua,  111.  150th  Infantry 

Born  Oct.  5,  1890,  Cerro  Gordo,  III.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  G. 
Cheatham;  clerk;  enl.  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  army;  as- 
signed to  15_0th  Inf.,  made  Cpl.,  Camp  Shelby,  Sept.  1,  1918; 
in  training  5  mos. ;  sailed  from  Hoboken  Oct.  5,  1918;  landed 
in  Liverpool  Oct.  17,  1918;  in  hospital,  influenza;  returned  with 
Casual  Co.  Dis.  C,  Grant  March  20.  1919. 

CHRISTY,   JAMES   R.  Private 

Assumption,   111.  Co.   M,  3rd  Bn.    160  Depot  Br. 

Born  Oct.  25,  1894;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  H.  Christy;  enl. 
Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  Army;  assigned  to  Co.  M,  3rd  Bn. 
160  Depot  Br.,  Camp  Custer,  Mich.;  in  training  3  mos.;  in 
hospital,  influenza.  Dis.  at  Custer,  Dec.  10,  1918. 

CLARK,  LOGAX  J.  1st  Class  Private 

Herrick,  III.  Co.  M,  52  Inf.,  6  Div. 

Born  July  10,  1895,  Cowden  ;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville ;  "assigned  Co.  I,  154  Inf.,  39  Div.;  trf.  from  C.  Taylor  to 
Beaureguard,  July  18,  1918;  trf.  Xewport  News  July  24,  1918; 
in  training  3  weeks;  sailed  from  Xewport  Xews  Aug.  6,  1918; 
landed  at  Brest  Aug.  18;  in  trenches  10  days;  at  Meuse-Ar- 
gonne,  Geardmour  sector ;  in  hospital ;  trf.  to  Co.  M,  52  Inf., 
6  Div.;  returned  with  them  and  dis.  C.  Grant  June  20,  1919. 


CLOW,  ARTHUR  R.  Private 

liarnhill,  111.  Co.  K,  77  Inf.,  14  Div. 

Enl.  May  29,  1918,  Shelbyville;  army;  sent  to  Ft.  Thomas;  as- 
signed to  Co.  K,  77  Inf.,  14  Div.,  Camp  Custer.  Dis.  Jan.  28, 
1919. 

CLUCAS,  WM.  Private 

Oconee,  111.  26th  Co.,   Engrs.,  Misc.  Personnel 

Enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  farmer.  Dis.  Jan.  8,  1919,  Ft. 
Oglethorpe,  Ga. 

CLUROE,  JOSEPH  Moweaqua,    II!. 

Enlisted   through    Local    Board  at  Terre   Haute. 


COBURX,   ROY  H. 
Moweaqua,    111. 


Private 

14th  Vet.  Hosp.  Unit 
Enl.  June  24,  1918,  Vandalia ;  Army;  assigned  to  14th  Vet. 
Hosp.  Unit,  Camp  Taylor;  in  training  3J4  mos.;  sailed  from 
Xewport  Xews  Oct.  14,  1918;  transport  Huron;  landed  at 
Brest  Oct.  26,  1918.  Dis.  at  Grant  July  9,  1919. 

COMPTOX,  CLYDE  L.  Shelbyville,  111. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  May  27,   1918;  sent  C.  Shelby,  Miss.;  rejected. 

COMPTOX,  LAWREXCE  Shelbyville,  111. 

Served  with  90th  Div.  overseas. 

COWLIXG,  ROY  V.  Findlay,  111. 

Formerly    a    telegrapher    at    Findlay ;    enl.    Shelbyville,    June    28, 
1918;  sent  C.  Taylor. 

CREDI,   PETE  Private 

Moweaqua,  111.  Co.  L,   10  Inf.,  14  Div. 

Enl.  May  29,   1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Custer,  Mich.;  assigned 
Co.  L,  10th  Inf. 


CULLEX,  FRAXK 
Gays,  111. 

CUMMIXGS,  JOHX  W. 


327  Field  Art. 


Tower  Hill,  111. 


Enl.    Shelbyville,    May    27,     1918,    and    sent    to    Camp    Shelby, 
•ejected. 


where   he  was  reje 

CURRY,  WM.  OTTO 

Strasburg,  111. 


Private 
22nd  Tr.  Bat.  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 


Enl.    Feb.    22,    1918,   at   Shelbyville,    111.;    farmer.     Dis.    Jan.    11, 
1919,  at   C.  Taylor,   Ky. 

CURTIS,  FRED  C.  Cook 

Cowden,  111.  Battery  D,  327  F.  A. 

Enl.   Shelbyville,   Oct.   3,    1917;  sent  C.   Taylor;    served  through 
with  327  F.  A.,   84  Division. 


CURTIS,  HEXRY  T. 

CUTLER,  PETE  G.  A. 
Mode,  III. 


Gays,  111. 

Private 
Co.   E,  9th  Infantry 


Enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  19,  1917;  sent  to  C.  Taylor;  trf.  to  C. 
Pike,  Ark.,  Xov.  16;  assigned  to  Co.  F,  346  Inf.,  87  Div.; 
June  5,  1918,  trf.  C.  Merritt,  X.  J.  ;  sailed  with  Casual  Co., 
June  20;  England  July  15;  France  July  22;  assigned  to  Co.  E, 
9th  Inf.,  2d  Div.;  on  four  active  fronts  and  two  quiet  sectors; 
returned  to  U.  S.  Aug.  1,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Aug.  14. 


Win.  Clucas        C.  L.  Compton      R.  V.  Cowling  I'.  Credi        J.  W.  C'umminKS    \V.  O.  Cvrrv 

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F.  C.  Curtis        P.  G.  A.  Cutler 


W.  J.  DaURherty       G.  Delaney 


C.  Denier 


F..  Hill 


O.  Dilley 


C.  Pobso-i 


[•".  !  'odson 


S.  Fouste 


DAUGHERTY,  WM.  J.  Moweaqua,  111. 

Enlisted  May  27,  1918,  at  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Camp  Shelby. 

DELANEY,  GILBERT  Corporal 

Tower  Hill,  III.  Bat.  D,  327  F.  A. 

Enlisted  Shelbyville,  Oct.  3,  1917;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  served 
throughout  enlistment  with  84  Div.,  Bat.  D,  327  F.  A.  ;  pro- 
moted to  Corporal. 

DENIER,   CLYDE  Findlay,  111. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  June  28,  1918;  C.  Taylor;  trf.  Ft.  McClellan, 
Anniston,  Ala.,  to  9th  Division. 

DILL,  ESCO  Sergeant 

Cowden,  111.  Hdq.  Co.,  37  Inf. 

Born  Jan.  25,  1896,  Cowden,  111.;  lineman:  son  of  Frank  and 
Lucinda  Dill,  Cowden;  enl.  Shelbyville,  May  23,  1918,  and 
assigned  Hdq.  Co.,  37  Inf.  ;  promoted  Sgt.  Dis.  Ft.  Mclntosh, 
Aug.  27,  1918.  Particular  work,  signalman. 

DILLEY,   ORRIE  Sergeant 

Tower  Hill,  111.  Bat.   D,  327  F.  A.,  84  Div. 

Enl.  Sept.  5,  1917,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  C.  Taylor;  assigned  to 
Bat.  D,  327  F.  A.,  84  Div.;  served  through  war  with  this  outfit; 
previously  served  in  1st  Art.  before  war  was  declared. 

DOBSON,  CONRAD  Windsor,  111. 

Enlisted   Shelbyville,   May   27,    1918;    assigned   to    Camp    Shelby. 

DODSON,  ELZA  Private 

Windsor,  III.  327  F.  A.,  84  Div. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Oct.  3,  1918;  sent  C.  Taylor;  rejected  and 
sent  home  in  about  6  weeks. 


DUNCAN,    EZEKIEL   R. 

DUST,  LEO  B. 
Sigel,  111. 


Windsor,   111. 
336  Company 


Enl.  July  31,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  336  Co.,  Camp  Mer- 
ritt,  N.  J.  Dis.  Jan.  4,  1919,  at  Camp  Grant. 

FAUSTE,  ARTHUR  R.  Private 

Villa  Grove,  111.  Bat.  C,  78  F.  A.,  6  Div. 

Born  Dec.  8,  1891,  Atwood,  111.;  son  George  Fauste,  Clarks- 
burg; ry.  brakeman  ;  enl.  Apr.  30,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C. 
Dix,  N.  J.  ;  sailed  from  Philadelphia  Aug.  14,  1918,  on  a  British 
cattle  boat  ;  landed  Liverpool  ;  trf.  78  F.  A.,  6th  Div.  in  France. 
Dis.  C.  Grant,  July  1,  1919. 

FOUSTE,  SYLVESTER  J.  Private 

Strasburg,  111,  9th  Ammunition  Train 

Enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  C.  Taylor;  trf.  to  C. 
McClellan  ;  served  with  9th  Amm.  Train  ;  dis.  C.  Grant  in  Feb. 

FIELD,  CHESTER  C.  Cook 

Windsor,   111.  Battery  F,  21    F.  A.,  5   Div. 

Enl.  Feb.  9,  1918,  St.  Joseph,  Mo.;  sailed  May  26,  1918,  from 
Montreal,  Canada;  landed  Liverpool  June  12;  battles  at  St.  Die 
Sector,  Frapelle  Offensive,  St.  Mihiel  Offensive,  Puvenille  Sec- 
tor, Army  of  Occupation.  Dis.  Aug.  6,  1919,  C.  Taylor,  Ky. 


FISHER.   PAUL  Field   Clerk 

Champaign,  111.  53  Co.,  5  Reg.,   159  D.  B. 

Farm  hand,  southern  Shelby  Co. ;  enl.  June  28,  1918.  Shelby- 
ville;  sent  C.  Taylor;  served  as  duty  Cpl.  until  appointment  as 
Field  Clk. ;  assisted  in  discharge  of  men  at  C.  Taylor  until  dis- 
charge, Sept.  10,  1919. 

FLESCH.   CHARLES   W.  Private 

Oconee,    111.                                                                        Co.  E,   37th    Inf. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  May  23,  1918;  sent  to  Jeff.  Bks.,  Mo.;  served 
as  private  in  Co.  E,  37  Inf.  Dis.  in  Aug.,  1919. 

FLESCH,  LEONARD  R.  Private 

Oconee,  111.  Co.  A,  9th  Amm.  Tr.,  F.  A. 

Farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville,  111.;  sent  C.  Taylor; 
left  Camp  Taylor  Aug.  15,  1918,  for  Camp  McClellan,  Ala.; 
sent  to  Camp  Grant  Jan.  30,  1919.  Dis.  Feb.  13,  1919. 

FLETCHER,  R.    FRANK  Private 

Cowden,   111.  Vet.   Co.,  No.   1,  Vet.   Corps,  Med.   Dept. 

Veterinary  surgeon;  enl.  Dec.  20,  1917,  Chicago,  111.  Dis.  Dec. 
14,  1918,  C.  Greenleaf,  Ga.  Now  at  Platteville,  Wis. 


FLOSKI,   FRANK 


Moweaqua,    111. 


FLOSKI,  JOHN  Moweaqua,  111. 

Enl.   Shelbyville,   May  29,   1918;   assigned  to  Ft.  Thomas. 


FLUGA,    JOHN"    L. 
Stewardson,   111. 


Mess  Sergeant 
Battery  D,  327  F.  A. 
Enl.  Sept.  19,  1917,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  C.  Taylor;  served  as 
Mess  Sgt.  in  Bat.  D,  327  F.  A. 

FRITZ,  ELMER  E.  Private 

Strasburg,  111.  21st  Field  Art. 

Enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  to 
21st  F.  A.  Dis.  on  account  of  disability. 

FRITZ,  WILLIAM  H.  Private 

Strasburg,  111.  10th  Inf.  Camp  Custer 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  5;  sent  Camp  Custer;  assigned  to  45th 
Co.,  12th  Bn.,  160  Depot  Brig.,  from  Sept.  5.  1918,  to  Nov.  9, 
1918,  and  to  Co.  H,  77  Inf.,  Nov.  9,  1918,  to  Jan.  20,  1919, 
and  to  Hq.  Demob.  Det.,  3d  Bn.,  160th  D.  Brig.,  Jan.  20  to 
March  10,  1919.  Dis.  March  18,  1919. 

FROST,  JOHN  EMERY  Herrick,  111. 

Enlisted  Feb.  23,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  later 
to  Camp  Sevier  and  Ft.  McPherson.  Dis.  summer  of  1919. 

FULLER,  ORVILLE  Moweaqua,  111. 

GILL,  JESSE  Private 

Shelbyville,  111.  Depot  Brigade 

Born  1889,  son  R.  A.  Gill,  Shelbyville;  school  teacher;  enl. 
Sept.  3,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Depot  Brigade,  C.  Grant. 
Dis.  Sept.  18  because  of  disability. 

GILL,  ROBERT  Private 

Shelbyville,  111.  Depot  Brigade 

Born    March    15,    1895,    Kansas,    III.;    son  R.    A.    Gill:    school 

teacher;    enl.    Sept.     3,     1918,    Shelbyville;  assigned    to     Depot 

Brigade.     Dis.    Sept.    18,    1918,   on  account  of   disability. 


A.  Fouste 


P.  Fisher 


L.  R.  Flesch 


J.  Floski 


•'• 
E.  E.  Frit«  T.  E.  Frost 


J.  Gill  R.  Gill 

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f" ; 


B.  A.  Godwin       L.  L.  Gregory      Lloyd  Gregory 


R.  J.  Gregory       T.  E.  Gregory         L.  E.  Griffin        X.  Hamilton        II.  C.  Hastings 


GADDIS,  GEORGE  Windsor,  111. 

GIBF.RSOX,  TRUMAX  E.  Tower  Hill,  111. 

Enl.  in   Marines  at  Mattoon,  Jan.  31,    1918;   sent  to  Port  Royal, 


GLASSCOCK,  BEXTOX 

C.ODWIX,  BATSIE  A. 
Tower  Hill,  111. 


Gays,   111. 

Corporal 
Hq.  Co.,  327  F.  A. 


Enl.  Sept.  19,  1917,  Shelby villc;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  assigned 
to  Hq.  Co.,  327  F.  A.  and  served  through  war  with  this  outfit. 

GREGORY,  LAWRENCE  L.  Private 

Moweaqua,  III.  Band  Hq.  Co.,  326  F.  A. 

Born  Oct.  20,  1889,  Moweaqua;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard 
Gregory;  clerk;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelby ville;  assigned  to 
Band  Hq.  Co..  326  Field  Artillery;  in  training  7  weeks  in  band 
•work.  Dis.  Aug.  17,  1918,  C.  Taylor,  because  of  disability. 

GREGORY,   LLOYD  Musician 

Moweaqua,  111.  326  F.  A.,  84  Div. 

Born  July  5,  1890,  Moweaqua,  111.;  son  Thomas  J.  Gregory; 
mail  carrier:  enl.  Tune  27,  1918,  Shelbyville :  assigned  to  53  Co., 
159  Depot  Brigade,  C.  Taylor;  trf.  to  326  F.  A.,  84  Div.,  West 
Point;  10  mos.  in  training;  sailed  from  Hoboken  Sept.  9,  1918; 
landed  Glasgow,  Scotland,  Sept.  21  ;  at  Camp  De  Souge.  Dis. 
C.  Taylor,  March  8,  1919. 

GREGORY,  RICHARD  2d  Lieut. 

Moweaqua,   111. 

Born  May  10,  1893,  Moweaqua,  111.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard 
Gregory;  school  teacher;  enl.  May  29,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent 
to  Ft.  Thomas;  trf.  to  Hq.  Co.,  10th  Inf.,  Ft.  Harrison;  trf.  to 
Camp  Gordon,  to  17th  Co.,  then  to  13th  Co.;  in  O.  T.  C.  at 
C.  Gordon,  commissioned  2nd  Lieut. ;  in  training  6  mos.  Dis. 
Dec.  2  at  C.  Gordon. 

GREGORY,  THOMAS  E.  Private 

Moweaqua,  III.  Bat.  D,  150  F.  A.,  Rainbow  Division 

Son  T.  Jefferson  Gregory;  enl.  Shelbyville  Sept.  19,  sent  to 
Taylor;  trf.  Nov.  16  to  C.  Pike;  March  10  to  C.  Green;  later 
assigned  to  Bat.  D,  150  F.  A.,  Rainbow  Division;  in  service 
overseas.  Dis.  March,  1919,  at  C.  Grant;  one  brother,  Lloyd 
Gregory,  in  service. 

GRIFFIX,  LEXIEL  E.  Private 

Strasburg,  111.  319  Remount  Sta. 

Born  Ian.  12,  1896,  Windsor;  son  Leniel  Griffin;  farmer;  enl. 
June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  53  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade, 
C.  Taylor:  trf.  Xov.  22,  1918,  to  Remount  Sta.;  in  canteen 
service  9  mos.  Dis.  C.  Taylor,  March  29,  1919. 

HALL,  JAMES  CARL  Tower  Hill,    111. 

Enl.   Shelbyville  June   28,    1918;    sent   to   Camp   Taylor. 

HAMILTOX,  XOAH  Private 

Tower  Hill,  111.                              Battery  F,  4th  Regt.,  F.  A.  R.  D. 

Enl.  June  27,  1918,  at  Shelbyville;  farmer;  dis.  Dec.  17,  1918, 
C.  Taylor,  Ky. ;  served  there  as  replacement. 


HASTIXGS,  HOWARD  C.  Sergeant 

Moweaqua,  111.  Hq.  327  F.  A.,  84  Div. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  19,  1917;  assigned  Hq.  Co.;  327  F.  A.; 
served  as  Sgt. ;  landed  Liverpool,  Sept.  21,  1918;  trained  at 
Camp  De  Souge ;  but  signing  of  armistice  prevented  327th  from 
going  into  action.  Dis.  Feb.  19,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

HAWLEY,  ROBERT  RILEY  Westervelt,   111. 

Enl.   May   27,    1918,   Shelbyville;   assigned   to   Camp   Shelby. 

HAYES,  WM.  H.  Moweaqua,  111. 

Enlisted    Shelbyville,    May   27,    1918;   assigned   to   Camp   Shelby. 


HEDGES,  JAMES  E. 


Moweaqua,  111. 


Enl.   Shelbyville,  June  27,   1918;   served   C.   Taylor. 

HOCHA,  EDWARD  E.  Oconee,  111. 

HORX,  ALBERT  V.  Private 

Windsor,  111.  328  Inf..  82  Div. 

Born  April  21,  1893,  Windsor;  laborer;  son  D.  V.  and  Luella 
Horn,  Windsor;  enl.  Shelbyville,  May  27,  1918;  assigned  152 
Inf.,  38  Div.,  Camp  Shelby;  trf.  328  Inf.,  82  Div.;  sailed  N.  Y. 
Oct.  5,  1918;  landed  Liverpool;  trained  as  automatic  rifleman. 
Dis.  C.  Grant  May  30,  1919. 

HOEHX,    EDWARD   W.  Private 

Oconee,    111.  Sup.    Tr. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Sept.  6,  1918;  sent  to  C.  Custer.  Dis.  C. 
Grant  March  27,  1919,  from  Provost  Guard  Co. 

HOKE,  CLAUDE  Findlay,  111. 

Served  with  Co.   C,   131   Inf.,  33   Div. 

HORX,  LAWREXCE  Private 

Windsor,  HI.  Hdq.  Co.,  308  F.  A. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  April  30,  1918;  sent  C.  Dix ;  assigned  Hdq. 
Co.,  308  F.  A.  Dis.  May  29,  1919. 

HILL,  DAVID  BENXETT  Moweaqua,  111. 

Enl.  Jan.  10,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Ft.  Oglethorpe, 
Medical  Det. 

HOLIX,  E.  WALLACE  Cowden,  111. 

Enl.    May  27,    1918,   Shelbyville;   assigned  to   Camp   Shelby. 

HOLLEY,  CARL  Private 

Beecher  City,  111.  Bat.  D,  327  F.  A..  84  Div. 

Enl.  Sept.  19,  1917,  Shelbyville;  sent  Camp  Taylor;  assigned  to 
Bat.  D,  327  F.  A.,  with  which  he  served  through  war. 

HUFFMASTER,   CLIFFORD  Stewardson,  111. 

Son  Wiley  Huffmaster;  enl.  in  1917,  navy;  taking  vocational 
training  at  Xormal  University,  Xormal,  111. 

HUMPHREY,  WILLIE  O.  Private 

Moweaqua,    111.  46    Co.,    160    Depot    Brig. 

Son  Nate  Humphrey,  Moweaqua;  enl.  Sept.  6,  1918,  Shelby- 
ville: assigned  C.  Custer,  46  Co,  160  Depot  Brig.  Dis.  Jan., 
1919. 

JENSEN,  GROVER,  WM.  Corporal 

Strasburg,  111.  Hq.   Co.,   166  D.  B. 

Born   Feb.  20,   1890,  Strasburg;   son   Chris  and  Caroline  Jensen, 
dec'd ;    pub.    school   principal,    Idaho   Falls,    Idaho;    enl.  July   26, 
1918,   Idaho  Falls;  assigned  Hq.   Co.,   166  D.  B. ;  promoted  Cpl. 
Dec.   21,   1918.     Dis.   C.    Lewis,  Wash.,  June   10,    1919. 


R.  R.  Hawley       W.  H.  Hayes        J.  E.  Hedges  A.  V.  Horn  D.  B.  Hill  E.  W.  Holin  C.  Holley 

ge    OiU:   Hundred   Xtncty-Scven 


L.  Horn 


B.  C.  Holthaus         H.  Holthaus 


C.  Hosteller 


M.  Jarrell 


E. Jones 


J.  Kaufman        W.  d.  Kronlein         L.  J.  Kruger 


HOLTHAUS,  BARNEY  C.  Servant 

Oconee,  111.  Bat.  D,  327  F.  A. 

Enl.  Sept.  19,  1917,  Shelby ville ;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  assigned 
to  Bat.  D,  327  F.  A. ;  went  overseas  with  this  outfit  and  served 
through  with  it. 


HOLTHAUS,  HENRY 
Oconee,  111. 


Private 

2nd  Reg.,  F.  A.  R.  D. 
Enl.  Shelbyvillc  June  28,  1918;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  assigned 
to  53  Co.,  159  Depot  Brigade;  trf.  to  2  Reg.,  F.  A.  R.  D. ;  in 
service  overseas. 


HOSTETLER,  CHANCY  M. 


Shelbyville,  111. 


Conscientious  objector;  drafted  June  28,  1918;  served  in  Spruce 
Division. 

JARRELL,  MELTON  Mulberry,  Ark. 

Farm  hand ;  worked  at  Findlay  when  registered ;  enl.  Apr.  30, 
1918;  sent  C.  Dix,  N.  J. ;  left  in  hospital  at  C.  Dix  when  78 
Div.  sailed. 

JOHNSON,  BEN  Private 

147    Engineers 

Enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Custer ;  assigned  45  Co., 
12  Bn.,  160  D.  B. ;  trfd.  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison,  147  Engineers. 
Dis.  shortly  after  armistice. 

JOHNSON,  ROY 

Shelbyville,   111.  Engineer  Truck  Co.  457 

Son  Mrs.  Sarah  Stanley,  Shelbyville ;  served  in  France  with 
Eng.  Truck  Co.  457. 

JONES,   ESCO  C.  Private 

Cowden,  III.  Battery  C,  308  F.  A.,  78  Div. 

Born  Dec.  30,  1890,  Cowden,  111.;  truck  driver;  son  J.  G.  and 
Julia  Jones,  Cowden;  enl.  April  29,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C. 
Dix,  N.  J.;  sailed  Hoboken  May  27,  1918;  transport  Cedric ; 
landed  Liverpool;  active  service  Aug.  1  to  Nov.  11,  1918;  St. 
Mihiel,  Meuse-Argonne,  Verdun ;  returned  U.  S.  as  convales- 
cent. Dis.  C.  Grant  May  28,  1919. 


1st   Class    Electrician 


TONES,  HOWARD 

Tower  Hill,  III. 

Born   Jan.    7,    1897,   Shelby   Co.;   carpenter;    son   John   T.   Jones, 

Tower  Hill;   enl.   Nov.,    1918,    Pana ;   assigned  U.   S.    S.    Meade ; 

in   training  6  mos. 

KAUFMAN,  JOSEPH  E.  Sigel,  111. 

Enl.  June  27,   1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned   to  Camp  Taylor. 
KAUTZ,  RAY  Moweaqua,  111. 

KAUTZ,  WILL  W.  Private 

Moweaqua,  111.  Co.  H,  23   Engrs. 

Enl.  Nov.,  1917,  Seattle  Wash.;  assigned  Co.  H,  23  Engrs,  C. 
Meade;  sailed  April,  1918;  under  fire  3  mos.  Dis.  Aug.,  1919, 
C.  Grant. 

KENNEY   MARK  Windsor.   111. 

Enl.  July  8,  1918,  in  Navy;  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  On  following  ships 
and  stations:  U.  T.  S.  Great  Lakes,  R.  S.  Puget  Sound,  R.  S. 
N.  Y.,  U.  S.  S.  Eastern  Light,  U.  S.  S.  Von  Steuben  ;  in  Eng- 
land, Holland,  through  Panama  Canal  and  along  Pacific  Coast. 
Dis.  Oct.  15,  1919. 


KELLEY,    WALTER 

KROENLIN,  WALTER  GUST 
Herrick,  111. 


Shumway,    111. 

Co.   Mech. 
53  Co.,  14  Bn.,  159  D.   B. 


Enlisted  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  53  Co.,  14  Bn., 
159  D.  B.,  Camp  Taylor;  trained  51A  mos.  Dis.  C.  Taylor, 
Dec.  15,  1918. 

KRONINGER,   JOHN   T.  Private 

Cowden,    111.  Co.    F,   339   Inf. 

Enl.  Feb.  23,  1918,  Taylorville,  111.;  trained  5  mos.;  sailed  July 
22,  1918;  served  in  Russia;  battle  of  Ketskal,  Russia;  gun  shot 
wound  near  Vestula,  Russia,  March  17,  1919;  returned  Tuly  7, 
1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  16,  1919. 

KRUGER,  LOUIS  J.  1st  Class  Private 

Stewardson,  111.  Headquarters  Co.,   37  Inf. 

Born  Apr.  22,  1890,  Stewardson;  brakeman  ;  son  August  Kruger, 
Stewardson;  enl.  May  23,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  Jefferson  Bks. ; 
trf.  Ft.  Mclntosh;  trained  15  mos.  Dis.  Aug.  26,  1919,  Ft.  Mc- 
Intosh ;  2  brothers  in  service. 

LUGAR,  CLAUDE  D.  Stewardson,  HI. 

Son  Mrs.  W.  B.  Lugar,  Stewardson ;  enl.  Shelbyville,  May  27, 
1918;  sent  Camp  Shelby,  Miss.;  rejected. 

LAMB,  JOSEPH  Private 
Moweaqua,  III.  Bat.  F.  21  F.  A. 
Enlisted  Shelbyville,  Oct.  3,  1917;  sent  Camp  Taylor;  later  as- 
signed Bat.  F,  21st  F.  A.,  5  Div. 

LARGENT,   BENJAMIN  F.  Private 

Henton,  111.  308  F.  A.,   78  Div. 

Son    Daniel   Largent,    Henton;  enl.   Shelbyville,   April    30,    1918; 

sent  Camp  Dix ;  assigned  308  F.  A.,  78  Div.,  and  served  over- 
seas with  it. 

LARGENT.  ELMER  G. 

Strasburg,  111.  36  F.  A. 

Enlisted  June  28,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Camp  Taylor; 
later  to  36  F.  A. 

LARGENT,  EMERY  E.  Private 

Henton,  111.  308  F.  A..  78  Div. 

Son  Daniel  Largent,  Henton;  enl.  Shelbyville  April  30,  1918; 
sent  Camp  Dix ;  assigned  308  F.  A.  and  served  overseas. 

LEAF,  CURTIS  T.  Supply  Sergeant 

Moweaqua.   111.  6th  F.   Bat. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  Sept.  19,  1917;  sent  Camp  Taylor;  assigned 
6th  F.  Batt. ;  promoted  Supply  Sergeant.  Dis.  C.  Taylor,  Nov. 
26,  1918. 

LOCKARD,  WILLIAM  OTIS  Private 

Tower  Hill,  111.  Co.  F,  311  Reg.,  78  Div. 

Son  Laura  A.  Lockard,  Tower  Hill;  enl.  Shelbyville  May  27, 
1918;  sent  Camp  Shelby,  Miss.;  sailed  Oct.  6,  1918.  Dis.  June 
1,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

LEE,  VERNON  C.  1st  Class  Private 

Windsor,  111.  Hq.   Co.,  308  F.  A. 

Son  Mrs.  E.  A.  Dpdson,  Windsor;  enl.  Shelbyville,  April  30, 
1918;  sent  Camp  Dix;  promoted  1st  class  private;  assigned  Hq. 
Co.,  308  F.  A.  Dis.  May  29,  1919;  served  overseas. 


C.  J.  Lugar  J.  Lamb  B.  F.  Largent      E.  G.  Largent       E.  E.  Largent          C.  T.  Leaf  W.  O.  Lockard  V.  C.  Lee 

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T.  Mauzey          G.  E.  Mayberry    I..  H.  Mayberry       .T.  W.  Mays 


C.  L.  Miller 


F.  II.  Miller 


.T.  D.  Miller 


I!.  .T.  Moberly 


MAUZEY,  HUGH  JOHN  Findlay,  111. 

Born  Oct.  22,  1894,  Findlay,  son  W.  H.  Mauzey;  clerk;  enl. 
June  14,  1918,  Shelbyville ;  assigned  to  4th  Tr.  Del.  Co.  A, 
Indianapolis,  Ind. ;  trf.  Aug.  28,  1918,  to  Ft.  Leavenworth,  Kan., 
to  Co.  A,  6th  Tr.  Bn.,  Signal  Corps;  Sept.  9,  1918,  trf.  C. 
Funston  to  4th  Co.,  164  Depot  Brigade;  trf.  to  C.  Upton,  L.  I.; 
assigned  to  Co.  A,  Army  Service  Corps  for  "service  overseas" ; 
armistice  signed,  returned  to  C.  Grant,  dis.  Dec.  2,  1918. 


MAYBERRY,  GEORGE  E. 
Findlay,  III. 


Private 

22  Eng.,  Co.  K,  4th  Bn. 
Enl.  June  28,  1919;  sent  to  C.  Taylor,  Ky.,  where  remained  three 
weeks ;  then  sent  to  Ft.  Benjamin  Harrison,  Ind.,  where  re- 
mained a  month ;  from  there  overseas ;  was  in  Meuse-Argonne 
off.  when  armistice  was  signed;  was  overseas  10  months.  Dis. 
C.  Taylor,  July  3,  1919. 


MAYBERRY,  LLOYD  HARPER 
Findlay,  III. 


Co. 


Private 
K,  22  Engineers 


Enl.  June  28  ;  sent  to  C.  Taylor,  Ky.,  with  his  brother,  George ; 
they  served  clear  through  together. 

MAYS,  JESSE  W.  Tower  Hill.  III. 

Enl.   Shelbyville,  May  27,   1918  ;   sent  to  Camp  Shelby. 

MILLER,  CLARENCE  L.  Private 

Windsor,  111.  Hq.  Co.,  308  F.  A..  78  Div. 

Born  Apr.  9,  1892;  son  T.  J.  Miller,  Windsor;  enl.  Apr.  30, 
1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Dix,  N.  J. ;  sailed  Hoboken,  May  27, 
1918;  landed  Liverpool;  finished  training  C.  De  Mucon ;  active 
service  Aug.  27-Nov.  11;  St.  Mihiel,  Suippe-Moselle,  Argonne, 
Grand  Pre ;  was  runner  Brig.  Hqs.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  27,  1919. 

MILLER,  FRED  H.  Moweaqua,  111. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  May  27,   1918;  sent  to  Camp  Shelby. 


MILLER,  JOHN  D. 
Herrick,  111. 


Corporal 

Co,  K,  22  Engrs. 
Enlisted  June  28,  1918;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  trf.  Ft.  Benja- 
min Harrison,  Ind.;  Co.  K,  22  Eng.;  sailed  Sept.  1,  1918; 
under  fire  from  Sept.  26  to  Nov.  11,  1918.  Dis.  C.  Taylor,  Ky. 


MOXTOXYE,    CHARLES    L. 
Shelbyville,    III. 


Private 
Co.    D,    42    Machine    Gun    Bn. 


Enl.  May  29,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Ft.  Thomas:  trfd. 
to  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison;  trfd.  to  C.  Custer  to  Co.  D,  42  M.  G. 
Bn.  Dis.  at  C.  Custer  Jan.  28,  1919. 


MOBERLEY,   BERNARD  J. 
Windsor,  111. 


Private 

14  Recruit  Co. 

Son  B.  F.  Moberley,  Windsor;  postal  clerk;  enl.  May  27,  1917, 
Shelbyville;  assigned  14  Recruit  Co.,  Camp  Shelby,  Hatties- 
burg,  Miss.;  dis.  June  11,  1918,  on  account  of  physical  disabil- 
ity. One  brother  in  service. 


MOORE,   CARL   LEON 
Cowden,    111. 


Fireman  2nd   CI. 
U.    S.    Navy 

Born  Oct.  16,  1897,  Cowden ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Andrew  J. 
Moore,  Cowden;  farmer;  enl.  July  26,  1918,  Peoria ;  Navy;  as- 
signed to  Great  Lakes ;  trfd.  to  receiving  ship  Philadelphia ; 
trfd.  to  Cape  May,  N.  J.  ;  promoted  from  Apprentice  Seaman 
to  Fireman  2nd  Class ;  in  training  eight  months.  Dis.  at  Great 
Lakes,  III.,  March  15,  1919. 


MOORE,  CLAUDE  HARRISON  Private 

Cowden,  111.  Veterinary   Hosp.   No.   7 

Son  Mrs.  Laura  Moore;  farmer;  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
sailed  July  26,  1918;  in  active  service  with  A.  E.  F.,  for  sev- 
eral months.  Dis.  July  2,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

MOORE,  OSCAR   E.  Private 

Moweaqua,   111.  Hospital  Ward  Master 

Born  Nov.  19,  1886,  Moweaqua;  son  W.  H.  Moore;  clerk;  enl. 
June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Depot  Brigade,  C.  Tay- 
lor; was  hospital  ward  master;  in  training  4  mos.  Dis.  Nov. 
28,  1918,  C.  Taylor. 


MOORE,  WILLIAM  F. 
Tower  Hill,  111. 


1st  Class  Private 
Co.  A,   37th  Infantry 


Born  June  12,  1895,  Middlesworth ;  son  M.  E.  Moore,  Tower 
Hill;  farmer;  enl.  May  23,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Jeff. 
Bks.,  Mo.;  trf.  to  Co.  A,  37th  Inf.,  Ft.  Mclntosh;  promoted 
to  1st  class  private;  in  training  15  mos.,  as  rifleman;  on  out- 
post duty  on  Rio  Grande.  Dis.  in  Aug.,  1919.  Brother  killed 
in  France. 

MORFORD,  GUY  Private 

Windsor,  111.  335   Inf.,  84  Div. 

Born  March  24,  1889,  Windsor;  son  E.  W.  Morford ;  married 
June  1,  1919,  to  Nancy  Ryherd,  dau.  Grant  Ryherd  ;  switchman; 
enl.  Feb.  22,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Depot  Brigade,  C. 
Taylor;  trf.  in  March  to  335  Inf.,  84  Div.;  in  training  6  mos.; 
sailed  from  Hoboken  Sept.  3;  landed  Liverpool  Sept.  16th;  in 
hospital,  bronchitis.  Dis.  C.  Grant  June  4,  1919. 

MOSLEY,  AUSTIN  Findlay,  111. 

Enl.  C.  Taylor,  Sept.  19,  1917;  trf.  C.  Pike,  Nov.  16;  trf.  C. 
Greene,  March  10.  1918. 

McCLANAHAN,  ED  Cowden,  III. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  June  28,   1918;   sent  to  Camp  Taylor. 

MCCLELLAND,  EVERETT  Moweaqua,  in. 

Enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  C.  Custer;  trfd.  to  Grant 
Non-Corn.  School.  Dis.  Jan.  1.  1919. 


McDAVID,  B. 

Windsor,   111. 

Served  with  70   Engineers. 


70  Engrs. 


Sergeant 


McGARVEY,    CLEA 

Shelbyville,   111. 

Gov.   Clerk,   Washington,   D.   C. ;   enl.  in   1917,  three  weeks  later 

going  to  France ;  at  present  has  a  position  in  Chicago. 

.McINTOSH,  CHARLES  THOMAS  Stewardson.   111. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  May  27,  1918;  sent  to  Camp  Shelby.  Dis.  on 
account  of  disability. 

McKENNY,   CLAUDE  A.  Private 

Moweaqua,  111.  90th  Div. 

Born  June  6,  1891,  Moweaqua;  son  of  Dave  and  Ella  McKenny  ; 
farmer;  enl.  June  26,  1918,  Shelbyville;  trf.  from  Camp  Taylor 
to  39th  Div.,  Camp  Beauregard ;  to  90th  Div.,  July  18.  1918; 
trf.  to  Camp  Merritt  Aug.  4,  1918;  sailed  Hoboken  Aug.  8, 
1918;  landed  Hrest  Aug.  26;  in  trenches  from  Sept.  30  to  Nov. 
1 1  ;  Meuse-Argonne,  St.  Mihiel ;  bridge  work.  Dis.  June  26, 
1919,  C.  Grant. 


C.  Montonye          O.  E.  Moore          W.  F.  Moore  G.  Morford  A.  Mosley         E.  McClannahan   C.  T.  Mclntosh    C.  A.  McDaniel 

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C.  D.  Newberry         I.  P.  Nichols        T.  W.  North 


J.  A.  Page 


C.  E.  Phipps        T.  Pollman  V.  C.  Powell  L.  Olshaskie 


NEWBERRY,    CLAUDE    D.  Stewardson,    III. 

Enl.   Shelbyville  June  28,  1918;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor. 

NICHOLS,  IRA   P.  1st  Class  Private 

Tower  Hill,   III.  Hq.   Co.,   10th   Inf.,    14   Div. 

Son  Mrs.  Henry  Nichols,  Millersville ;  enl.  May  28,  1918.  Shel- 
byville: assigned  to  Ft.  Thomas;  trf.  to  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison, 
then  to  C.  Custer ;  served  in  Hq.  Co.,  10th  Inf.,  14  Div.  Dis. 
C.  Custer,  Jr>-.  18,  1919. 

NORTH,  JOHN  W.  Herrick,  111. 

Enl.  June  28,  1918;  sent  C.  Taylor;  trf.  C.  Beauregard ;  sent 
overseas,  Sept.,  1918. 

PAGE,  JAMES  A.  Private 

Moweaqua,  111.  Co.  B,  325   Inf.,  82  Div. 

Born  Feb.  11,  1891,  Middlesworth ;  poultry  dealer;  son  Andrew 
and  Catherine  Page,  Moweaqua;  enl.  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
trained  4J4  mos.,  C.  Shelby,  Miss.;  sailed  Hoboken,  Nov.  5, 
1918;  landed  Liverpool,  Nov.  17,  1918.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  May  22, 
1919;  one  brother  in  service. 

PHIPPS,    CLAUDE   F.  Sergeant 

Cowden,  111.  Battery  D,  327  F.  A. 

Born  Ian.  14,  1895,  Trilla,  111.;  son  S.  E.  Phipps,  Cowden;  enl. 
Oct.  2,  1917,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Taylor;  assigned  Batt.  D, 
327  F.  A.;  trf.  West  Point,  April  1,  1918;  sailed  Hoboken, 
Sept.  9,  1918;  finished  training  C.  De  Souge,  France.  Dis.  C. 
Grant,  Feb.  19.  1919. 

POLLMAN,  JOHN  Oconee,  111. 

Enl.   Sept.   5,   1918,  Shelbyville;    sent   C.   Custer,   Mich. 


POWELL,  VERN  C. 
Stewardson,  111. 


Corporal 
Co.  H.   150  Inf..  38  Div. 


Enl.  May  27,  1918.  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Shelby,  Miss.;  sailed 
Oct.  6,  1918.  Dis.  C.  Grant,  July  19,  1919. 

PRESNELL,  ERNEST  L.  Oconee.  111. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  June  27,   1918;  sent  C.  Taylor,  Ky. 

PURCELL,  ROY  R.  Corporal 

Moweaqua,   111.  Battery   D,  21    F.   A..   5   Div. 

Served  in  France  with  Battery  D,  21  F.  A.,  5  Div.  as  Corporal. 
Dis.  July  26,  1919. 

RAKER,  JOHN  G.  Corporal 

Oconee,  111.  Co.   A,   119   Inf.,   30   Div. 

Son  G.  Raker,  Oconee;  enl.  Shelbyville,  Feb.  23,  1918;  sent  to 
C.  Taylor;  later  assigned  to  Co.  A,  119  Inf.,  Camp  Sevier ; 
served  through  with  30  Div. 

REYNOLDS,  EARL  WALTER  Westervelt.  111. 

Son  Daniel  K.  Reynolds,  Westervelt;  enl.  Shelbyville  June  28, 
1918;  sent  to  C.  Taylor. 

REYNOLDS,  HARLEY  EARL  Oconee.  III. 

Son  A.  C.  Reynolds,  Oconee;  enl.  Shelbyville  May  27,  1918; 
sent  to  C.  Shelby. 

ROBY,  JAMES  F.  Bethany,   111. 

Son  Henry  Roby,  Bethany;  enl.  Shelbyville  May  27,  1918; 
sent  to  C.  Shelby,  Miss. 


ROSE,   HERMAN   O.  Co.   C,    130  Regiment 

Windsor,   III.  33d  Div. 

Arrived  home  early  in    1919;  was  with  Co.   C,   130  Regiment  for 
22  months;   in  hospital  six  days  with  slight  attack  of  flu. 


ROSE,   MURWYN   B. 


Windsor,   111. 


Corporal 
326   M.   G.   Bn.,  84   Div. 


ROSENBERG,   HAROLD   E. 

Findlay,  111. 

Enl.    Shelbyville   June    15,    1918;    assigned    326    M.    G.    Bn.,    84 

Piv. ;  in  service  at  Camp  Bradley  and  Camp  Sherman ;   went  to 

France    Sept.    1,    1918;    in   personnel    work   in    France    following 

armistice.      Dis.   C.    Grant  Apr.    30,    1919. 

ROSINE,  CHARLES  1st  Cl.   Private 

Strasburg,   111.  327  F.  A..  84  Div. 

Born  Mar.  14,  1895.  Strasburg;  son  Harmon  Rosine,  Strasburg; 
farmer;  enl.  Sept.  18,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  327  F.  A.,  84 
Div.,  Camp  Taylor;  trld.  Apr.  1,  1918,  to  West  Point;  trfd. 
Sept.  5,  1918,  to  C.  Mills;  in  training  nearly  a  year;  sailed 
Sept.  11,  1918;  landed  Liverpool  Sept.  22,  1918;  in  training  at 
La  Havre ;  returned  with  236  Military  Police  Corps.  Dis.  C. 
Grant  Aug.  5,  1919. 


ROBY,  FRANK 


Bethany,  Illinois 


Son  Henry  Roby,  Bethany;  enl.  Shelbyville  June  28,  1918;  sent 
to  C.  Taylor. 

ROZENE,   IRWIN   W.  Corporal 

Stewardson,    111.  Demobilization    Detch.,    Camp   Custer 

Born  Aug.  22,  1896,  Stewardson;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm.  Ro- 
zene,  Stewardson;  asst.  cash.  1st  Nat'l  Bank;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Custer;  assigned  to  Demobilization 
Detch.  ;  promoted  to  Corporal  ;  in  training  8  mos.  Dis.  C.  Cus- 
ter Mar.  21,  1918. 

RUSSELL,  RAY  Privatt 

Trowbridge,    111.  63rd    Inf 

Born  Jan.  3,  1893,  Strasburg;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hiram  Rus- 
sell, Strasburg;  farmer;  enl.  May  30,  1918,  at  Gold  Beach, 
Ore.  ;  Army  ;  assigned  to  63  Inf.,  Ft.  McDowell,  California  ;  in 
training  11  mo.  10  days.  Dis.  Washington,  D.  C.,  May  9,  1919. 

RUST,   ALBERT  Tower   Hill,   111. 

Saw  service  overseas  as  a  Sergeant  ;  was  also  in  Army  of  Oc- 
cupation. 

SATTERTHWAIT,   CHESTER 

Pana,    111.  383    Infantry 

SHEPPARD,   CLAYTON  Moweaqua,  III. 

SMITH,  CLAIR  Windsor,  III. 

Enl.  through  Local  Board  for  aviation  at  Rantoul  ;  rejected  few 
days  later. 

SMITH,    RAYMOND  Lieut.    Regular   Army 

Son  of  Mrs.  Mary  Lucas  of  Sullivan,  formerly  of  Windsor;  in 
service  in  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  Philippines  and  France;  one 
brother,  Owen  Smith,  also  in  overseas  service. 

SMITH,    RAYMOND   A.  Shelbyville,    111. 

SMITH,  W.   H.  Private 

Windsor,    III.  142   Infantry 

Enl.  June  27,   1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Camp  Taylor. 


R.  Purcell  I.  G.  Raker       1C.  W.  Reynolds    H.  E.  Reynolds 


H.  A.  Rozene          I.  F.  Roby  ('.  Rosine  F.  Roby 

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W.  H.  Smith  T.  Rudd  E.  A.  Smith          .T.  D.  Sarver      R.  H.  Satterwaite      E.  C.  Schoch  C.  Schutte  C.  Scott 


ROZEXE,   HENRY  Stewardson.   III. 

Enlisted  Shelbyville  May  27,  1918;  sent  to  Camp  Shelby;  went 
overseas.  Dis.  early  in  summer  1919. 

RUDD,   THOMAS  Shelbyville,   Illinois 

Enl.  Shelbyville  June  28,   1918;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor. 

SMITH,   EARL  A.  Private 

Oconee.  III.  Bat.  D,  21   F.  A.,  5  Div. 

Enl.  Sept.  18,  1917;  assigned  to  84  Div.,  C.  Taylor;  later  to 
Bat.  D,  21  F.  A.,  5th  Div.,  Camp  McArthur,  Waco,  Texas; 
went  to  France  May  26,  1918;  under  fire  108  days.  Dis.  C. 
Grant  July  29,  1919. 

SARVER,  JOHN  DICKERSON  Corporal 

Herrick,   Illinois  Bat.  C,  308   F.  A.,  78   Div. 

Enl.  April  30,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Dix ;  assigned  to 
Bat.  C,  308  F.  A.,  78  Div. ;  served  overseas ;  at  St.  Mihiel, 
Meuse-Argonne.  Brother  William  died  in  service. 

SATTERTHWAITE,   ROY   H.  Private 

Pana,  111.  Co.  L,   10  Inf. 

Enl.  May  29,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Ft.  Thomas,  Ky. ; 
trfd.  to  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison ;  trfd.  to  C.  Custer  and  assigned  to 
Co.  L,  10th  Inf.,  serving  through  period  of  enlistment  there. 

SCHOCH.    EDWARD   C.  Private 

Tower  Hill,  111.  U.  S.   Engrs. 

Born  Sept.  4,  1891,  Tower  Hill;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George 
Schock,  Tower  Hill;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
sent  to  Camp  Forrest,  Ga. ;  assigned  to  U.  S.  Engrs. ;  in  train- 
ing 4  months.  Dis.  Dec.  26,  1918,  at  Camp  Forrest. 

SCHUTTE,   CLIFFORD  Sigel,   Illinois 

Enl.   June  28,    1918,   Shelbyville;   sent  to  Camp  Taylor. 

SCOTT,   CLARENCE  Private 

Hudson,    Ky.  Co.    K,   22nd   Engrs. 

Enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  later 
assigned  to  Co.  K,  22nd  Engrs.;  sailed  for  France  Sept.  1, 
1918.  Dis.  Sept.  2,  1919,  at  Hot  Springs,  Ark. 

SHROCK,   IRV.  J.  Shelbyville,   111. 

Enl.  Sept.  19,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Camp  Taylor  and 
served  in  327th  F.  A. 

SILER,  NEWTON  Findlay,  III. 

Enl.   June  28,    1918,   Shelbyville;   assigned  to   Camp  Taylor. 

SIMPSON,  JOHN  A.  Moweaqua,   111. 

Enl.  Sept.  19,  1917,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  Camp  Taylor; 
later  to  Bat.  D,  21st  F.  A.,  5  Div.;  active  service  overseas 
with  21  F.  A. 

SLOAN,    EDWARD   M.  Private 

Beecher  City,  111.  Co.  K,  22nd  Engrs. 

Enl.  June  27,  1918,  at  Shelbyville;  vocation  farmer;  left  U.  S. 
Sept.  1,  1918;  in  service  with  Co.  K,  22nd  Engrs.;  returned  to 
U.  S.  June  23,  1919.  Dis.  July  3,  1919,  at  C.  Taylor. 


SMITH,  FRED 


Windsor,  111. 


SMITH,  HAROLD  E.  Sergeant 

Shelbyville,  111.  Air  Service 

Vocation,  Clerk;  enl.  Dec.  14,  1917,  at  Jeff.  Bks.,  Mo.;  served 
Dec.  14,  1917,  to  Apr.  18,  1918,  in  872  Dpt.  Repr.  Sgn.  St.  Paul, 
Minn.;  April  18,  1918,  to  July  16,  1919,  Air  Service,  Flying 
School,  Chanute  Field,  Rantoul,  111.  Dis.  July  16,  1919,  at 
Rantoul.  rank  of  Sergeant. 


SMITH,  OLIVER 


Moweaqua,   111. 


SMITH,   OSCAR 

Son   Mrs.   Mollie   Smith  ;   served  in    France  under  fire. 


Wagoner 
7th    Engrs. 


Sergeant 


rge 
D. 


SNELL,    DWIGHT    N. 

Moweaqua,  111.  46  Co.,  160  D.  B. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Sept.  5,  1918;  sent  to  C.  Custer;  assigned  to  46 

Co.,    160    Depot    Brigade.      Dis.    from    this    outfit    with    rank    of 

Sergeant. 


SNYDER,  CLARK 


Moweaqua,  111. 


SNYDER,  GLEN   D.  Private 

Moweaqua,  111.  75  Aero  Sqdn. 

Born  Jan.  10,  1891,  Moweaqua;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leonard  Sny- 
der,  Moweaqua;  married  Dec.  23,  1918,  Hazel  Blakemore, 
daughter  Henry  Blakemore;  garage  man;  enl.  Nov.  18,  1917, 
at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  in  Air  Service;  Nov.  26,  1917,  trfd.  to  196 
Aero  Sqdn.,  Kelly  Field,  from  Jeff.  Bks.;  to  Gerstner  Field 
Dec.  6,  1917;  Sept.  8,  1918,  to  Flying  Field  No.  2,  Garden 
City,  L.  I.;  Oct.  18,  1918,  to  Brindley  Field,  Commack,  L.  I.; 
in  training  15  mos.  Dis.  at  C.  Grant  Jan.  27,  1919. 


SNYDER,  LLOYD 


Moweaqua,    111. 


SMITH.    DANIEL  A. 


Tower   Hill,    111. 


SPATES,  BERT  O.  Private 

Findlay,   111.  308   F.   A.,   78   Div. 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edgar  Spates  of  Findlay ;  enl.  Shelbyville 
April  30,  1918;  assigned  to  Camp  Dix;  trfd.  to  308  Field  Ar- 
tillery ;  in  service  overseas.  Dis.  Camp  Grant. 

STALCUP,   ISAM   GRANSOR  1st  Class   Private 

Moweaqua,  111.  Bat.  B,  21st  F.  A.,  5  Div. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Oct.  3,  1917;  sent  to  C.  Taylor;  assigned  to 
Bat.  B,  21  F.  A.,  Camp  McArthur,  Texas;  sailed  for  France 
May  26,  1918;  under  fire  5  months.  Dis.  C.  Grant  July  29, 
1919. 

STAMPER,   ROBIN  1st   Class   Private 

Cowden,  HI.  Hq.  Co.,  308  F.  A. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Apr.  30,  1918;  sent  to  C.  Dix;  assigned  to 
Hq.  Co.  308  F.  A.;  in  hospital  when  outfit  sailed;  assigned  to 
Cooks  and  Bakers  School ;  graduated ;  assigned  Bakers  Co. 
354;  went  across  Oct.  20;  served  as  baker  at  St.  Aignan.  Dis. 
July  17,  1919. 

STAPLETON,  JOHN  E.  Mechanic 

Herrick,   111.  Co.   D.   327  F.  Art. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Sept.  18,  1917;  sent  to  C.  Taylor;  assigned  to 
Co.  D,  327  Field  Art.,  with  which  he  served  overseas  as  chief 
mechanic.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Feb.  1919. 


I.  J.  Schrock  N.  Siler  J.  A.  Simpson 

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I.  G.  Stalcup 


R.  Stamper        J.  E.  Stapleton 


W.  R.  Stephens       F.  H.  Storm          H.  E.  Storm 


J.  Stringer 


E.  Taylor 


A.  S.  Tu 


R.  Tull 


W.  F.  Tull 


SIGI.ER,   GEORGE  Moweaqua,  III. 

Enl.  Jan.    10,    1918,   Shelbyville ;   assigned  to   Ft.   Oglethorpe. 

SIMS,  JOHN   ESTEL.  Seaman 

Moweaqua,    111.  U.    S.    Navy 

Born  Jan.  21,  1887,  Assumption;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  F. 
Sims,  Moweaqua:  mar.  Nov.  28.  1917,  Ruby  Rice,  dau.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Dan  Rice,  Shelbyville:  salesman:  enl.  May  3,  1918,  Peoria ; 
navy:  assigned  to  Great  Lakes:  trfd.  to  League  Island  May  30, 
1918:  to  Cambridge,  Mass.,  Dec.  19,  1918;  was  in  Radio  Ser- 
vice: in  school  at  Philadelphia  7  mos.  Dis.  at  Cambridge  Jan. 

23,  1919. 

SIMPSON,   GEORGE  A.  56   B.  C. 

Pana,  111. 

SKIDMORE,    JOSEPH    B.  Westervelt.    111. 

Was  once  reported  missing  in   action. 

SLOAN,   CLARENCE  A.  1st   Cl.   Sergeant 

Herrick.    111.  Medical    Corps. 

Born  1897,  Herrick;  son  Otis  Sloan,  Herrick;  merchant;  enl. 
May  31,  1918,  at  Jeff.  liks. :  Medical  Corps:  assigned  to  Base 
Hospital,  Jeff.  Bks. ;  promoted  to  Corporal,  to  Sgt.,  to  First 
Class  Sgt. ;  in  tr.  4  mos. ;  trfd.  to  C.  Crane :  sailed  from  Ho- 
boken  Sept.  18,  1918;  transport,  Louisville;  landed  Brest  Sept. 

24.  Dis.  C.  Taylor  July   18,   1919. 

SPARKS,  CHARLES  F..  Shelbyville,   111. 

Son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  E.  Sparks;  served  with  Supply  Co.,  138 
Inf.  in  France. 


STEPHENS,  WARREN  R. 

Oconee,  111. 

Enl.  April  30,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  C.  Dix :  served  overseas 

as  Supply  Sergeant,  Hq.  Co.  308  F.  A.     Dis.  May  29,   1919. 


Supply  Sergeant 
Hq.  Co.,  308  Field  Artillery 


STORM,    FOSTER   B.  Sergeant 

Neoga,   111.  327    Field  Artillery 

Enl.  Oct.  3,  1917,  Shelbyville:  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  assigned 
to  327  F.  A.;  went  to  France  Sept.  1918.  Dis.  Camp  Grant 
Feb.  1919  with  rank  of  Sgt. 

STORM,   HARRY    E.  Private 

Trowbridge,  111.  308  F.  Art. 

Enl.    April    30,    1918,    Shelbyville;    assigned    to  C.    Dix,    308    F. 

Artillery ;    trfd.    after   armistice   to   76   F.    A.,   6  Div. 

STRINGER,   JAS.    H.  Private 

Moweaqua,   111.  327   Field   Artillery 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Sept.  5,  1917;  assigned  to  Camp  Taylor;  served 
in  327  Field  Artillery. 

TAYLOR,    EMANUEL    L.  Private 

S.    Pekin,   111.  308   F.   A.,   78   Div. 

Car  repairer;  born  Oct.  30,  1891;  son  John  and  Ida  Taylor, 
Holliday;  married  Mary  Logue,  Beecher  City,  Mar.  21,  1917; 
one  daughter,  Delia  Charlene ;  enl.  Shelbyville  Apr.  30,  1918; 
sent  C.  Dix;  assigned  308  F.  A.,  Hq.  Co.;  sailed  May  26,  1918; 
at  Verdun,  Argonne,  Metz,  Grand  Pre,  St.  Mihiel.  Dis.  C. 
Grant  May  27,  1919. 


TULL.  ADLEY  S.  32  Division 

Windsor,    111. 

Enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor:  served 
overseas  in  32  Div. 

TULL,   ROY  Private 

Shelbyville,   111.  54  Co..    159   D.   B. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  June  28,  1918;  sent  to  C.  Taylor;  assigned  to 
54  Co,  159  Depot  Brigade;  later  to  service  overseas  in  32  Div. 

TULL,  WM.  F.  Windsor. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Aug.  30,  1918;  sent  to  Camp  Grant.  Dis. 
Sept.  18,  1918. 

TURNER,   ELDON  GLYNN  Sergeant 

Windsor,  Illinois  6  Reg.  F.  A.  Repl.  D. 

Born  April  17,  1893,  Windsor:  son  G.  R.  and  Mollie  A.  Tur- 
ner, Windsor;  farmer:  enl.  June  27,  1918,  Shelbyville:  sent  to 
Camp  Taylor;  assigned  6  Reg.  F.  A.  Replacement  Depot;  pro- 
moted to  Sgt ;  in  service  6  mo.  in  charge  of  stables.  Dis.  C. 
Taylor  Dec.  16,  1918. 

TURNER,   HUBERT  Private 

Shelbyville,   Illinois  42   Aero 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Sept.  5 ;  sent  to  C.  Forrest,  Ga. ;  served  with 
42  Aero. 

VERMILLION,    EARL  Private 

Findlay,    Illinois  Remount   Station,   C.    Taylor 

Enl.  Shelbyville  June  28,  1918;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  assigned 
to  Remount  Station,  C.  Taylor.  Dis.  summer  of  1919. 

WALKER,  DON  C.  Hq.  Co.,  308  F.  A. 

Stewardson,   111.  78th    Division 

Enl.  Shelbyville  and  sent  to  Camp  Dix  April  30.  Dis.  May 
29,  1919. 

WHEAT,   THOMAS    F.  Strasburg,    111. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  June  28,  1918;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor.  Dis. 
Jan.  10. 

WHITROCK,  WM.  Private 

Shelbyville,   III.  Aberdeen    Prov.   Gds. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  April  30,   1918;  trfd.  from  Camp  Dix,   N.  J.,  to 

Aberdeen,    Maryland.  Dis.    from    Camp   Taylor. 

WALTRIP,  HARRY  E.  Windsor,  111. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Sept.  1918;  assigned  12th  Casual  Co.  Camp 
Forrest,  Ga. ;  was  ready  to  sail  when  armistice  was  signed. 
Dis.  at  Camp  Forrest,  Ga.,  December  1918. 


WEST,  J.  W.   R. 


Shelbyville.   111. 


WEST,   OTTO  O.  Stewardson,  111. 

Enl.  Feb.  23,  1918;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  trfd.  to  30th  Div., 
Camp  Sevier,  S.  C.  Dis.  there  on  disability  a  few  weeks  later. 

WILEY,   ELMER  Wagoner 

Clarksburg,    111.  327th   Motor   Transport 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Sept.  19,  1917;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  went  to 
France  with  327  F.  A. ;  trfd.  to  motor  transport  work  as  wag- 
oner; returned  in  March. 


E.  G.  Turner 


Tl.  Turner 


E.  Vermilion       D.  C.  Walker      T.  F.  Wheat 


W.  Whitrock       H.  E.  Waltrip  E.  Wiley 

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C.  Wanus 


W.  L.  Waters       R.  Williams      J.  C.  Winnings        W.  H.  Wirey 


S.  W.  West 


F.  L.  Several 


WANUS,  CECIL  Private 

Cowden,   111.  37th   Inf. 

Enlisted  Jefferson  Barracks  May  23,  1918,  son  of  Sarah  Wa- 
nus, Cowden.  Dis.  in  August,  1919. 

WATER,  WM.  L.  Battery  D,  308  F.  A. 

Tower   Hill,   111.  78   Division 

Enl.  Shelbyville  April  30;  assigned  Bat.  D,  308  F.  A.,  Camp 
Dix.  Dis.  May  29,  1919;  served  overseas. 

WILLIAMS,   RALPH  Private 

Stewardson,  111.  149   M.   G.,  38  Div. 

Born  Sept.  18,  1894,  Stewardson;  son  Frank  Williams,  Stew- 
ardson; clerk;  enl.  May  27,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp 
Shelby ;  assigned  to  149  Machine  Gun  Bn.,  38  Div. ;  in  train- 
ing 5  mo.;  sailed  Oct.  2,  1918;  landed  Oct.  9,  1918;  crossed 
channel  to  Le  Harve,  then  to  Nantes,  proceeded  to  Clarmont 
and  there  when  armistice  was  signed ;  back  to  Tonnerrk  area 
where  stationed  until  embarked  for  U.  S.  Dis.  C.  Grant  June 
13,  1919. 

WINNINGS,  JAMES  C.  Gays,  111. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  May  27,   1918;  assigned  to  Camp  Shelby,  Miss. 

WIREY,   WILLIS  H.  Private 

Herrick,  Illinois  Bat.  D,  327  F.  A. 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Sept.  19,  1917;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  assigned 
to  and  served  through  with  Bat.  D,  327  F.  A. 

WOOTERS,   IRA   MORGAN  Private 

Herrick,    Illinois.  22nd    Engrs. 

Enl.  June  28,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor;  trfd.  to 
22nd  Engrs.  at  Ft.  Benj.  Harrison.  Dis.  in  June  1919. 


WEST,  SAMEUL  W. 
Moweaqua,  111. 


Private 
Sup.  C.,  327th  F.  A. 


Enl.  Shelbyville  Sept.  5,  1917;  sent  to  Camp  Taylor  to  84th 
Div. 

SEVERN'S,    FRED   LEONARD  1st   Class    Private 

Cowden,   111.  Co.    C,    308   F.   A. 

Born  Dec.  30,  1887,  Cowden ;  son  Schaznan  Severn,  Cowden ; 
iron  worker;  enl.  Apr.  30,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  Co.  C, 
308  F.  A.,  78  Div.,  C.  Dix.;  tr.  10  days;  sailed  Hoboken  May 
7,  1918;  landed  Liverpool  May  26;  went  to  trenches  Sept.  12; 
at  St.  Mihiel,  Argonne,  Meuse,  Champagne,  Army  of  Occupa- 
tion; Co.  cited  by  Col.  Bucker;  in  hospital,  fever;  returned 
with  Co.  A,  7  M.  G.,  3d  Div.  Dis.  at  C.  Grant  Sept.  4,  1919. 

ALLEN,  JOHN  Private 

Shelby  County  53  Co.  159  D.  B. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  June  28,  1918;  assigned  53d  Co.,  159  Depot 
Brigade,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky. 

ALWARD,  THOMAS  E.  Bethany,  111. 

Son  A.  L.  Alward,  Bethany,  111.;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918, 
C.  Custer ;  rejected. 

ASHEXBRENNER,   WM.  J.  Shumway,   III. 

Enl.  through  Local  Board,  Shelbyville,  Sept.  5,  1918,  and  was 
sent  to  Camp  Custer. 

AUFFENORDE.    HEXRV   J.  Trowbridge,    111. 

Served  overseas;  gassed,  wounded  and  suffered  shell  shock. 
Dis.  in  April,  1919. 


BOLD,  ARTHUR  L. 

Strasburg,    111. 


Private 

Co.  10,  3  Bn.,  159  D.  B. 
Farmer;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  sent  C.  Custer.  Dis. 
Dec.  22,  1918,  C.  Taylor. 


BOLT,   WELLING 
Herrick,  111. 


Corporal 

30th  R.  O.  D.,  2  Reg. 
Knl.  Sept.  13,  1919,  Shelbyville;  assigned  to  30th  R.  O.  D.,  _' 
Reg.,  Camp  Hancock,  Ga.  Dis.  at  Erie  Proving  Grounds, 
Ohio,  Feb.  27,  1919. 


BOND,   FRANK  Middlesworth,   111. 

Went  overseas  with   326  Field  Artillery   with  84  Division.     Dis. 
in  spring  of   1919. 


BRinOKWATER,   MILTOX   H.  Moweaqua,   111. 

Son  Albert  Bridgewater;  enl.  Sept.  5,  1918;  assigned  to  Camp 
Custer;  rejected  at  camp  three  days  later. 

BROPHV,   WALTER  Shelbyville,   111. 

Enl.    May   29,   1918,   Shelbyville,   111.:  assigned  to  Custer. 

BROUGHTON,  CHAS.  E. 

Stewardson,  111.  23  Inf.,  M.  G.  Co. 

Born  Sept.  14,  1897,  at  Camargo,  111. ;  enl.  Danville,  111. ;  sent 
to  Mexican  border;  trfd.  Syracuse,  N.  Y. ;  sent  from  there  to 
France ;  wounded  several  times  and  in  hospital ;  returned  to 
U.  S.  and  was  in  hospital  in  Xew  York  City,  owing  to  wound 
in  shoulder;  brother  of  Wilbur  Broughton  who  died  in  ser- 
vice. (Chas.  Broughton  killed  at  Vandalia,  111.,  in  Dec.,  1919.) 

BRAZLE,   CHARLES   A.  Lakewood.   111. 

Son  Mrs.  Annie  Brazle,  Lakewood;  enl.  and  sent  to  Camp 
Dodge,  la.,  Sept.  21,  1917;  trfd.  to  C.  Upton;  Apr.  25,  1918, 
sailed;  cited  submarine;  landed  Liverpool  May  7;  May  8  to 
France ;  under  aero  bombing  at  Chepy  :  under  fire  June  23  and 
many  of  the  big  drives ;  captured  by  Germans  and  held  at  C. 
Rastaat  until  Dec.  8;  sent  to  Basle,  then  through  Germany, 
Switzerland  and  France,  rejoining  company  Dec.  30 ;  two  broth- 
ers, Clessie  and  Harry,  in  the  service. 

BROWN,  EARL  Cook 

Moweaqua,    111.  Co.    C.    130   Inf. 

Born  Oct.  15,  1894,  Decatur ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  B.  Brown; 
enl.  July  27,  1918,  Sullivan;  army;  assigned  to  Co.  C,  130  Inf.: 
in  training  22  mos. ;  sailed  from  Hoboken  May  16,  1918; 
transport  Agamemnon :  landed  at  Brest  May  26 ;  in  trenches  6 
mos. ;  at  Verdun,  Argonne,  St.  Mihiel,  Metz,  Albert ;  cook  Bn. 
Hdq.  Dis.  at  Grant  May  31.  1919. 

BROWX,    ERNEST    EARL  Mode,    III. 

Son   Annabelle   Brown,   Mode;   enl.   Sept.   5,   Shelbyville;   sent  to 

C.  Custer;  trfd.   to  Ry.   Engrs.  Ft.  Harrison. 

BROWN,    FRANK    E. 

Sent    Camp    Custer    Sept.    5 ;    was    later    trfd.    to    Ft.    Benjamin 

Harrison  to  engineers.     Dis.  from  Ft.    Benjamin  Harrison   early 

in    1919. 

BULLAR,  EDWARD  J. 

Home    in    Southern    Shelby    County :    was    enl.    through    Local 

Board   at    Effingham,    111. 

BUMGER,  W.  H.  Moweaqua,  111. 

BURNS,   WILL  Windsor,    111. 

Son  J.  H.  Burns,  Windsor;  now  living  in  Decatur;  served  ill 
France  in  Quartermaster  Corps. 

BURRUS,   ROLLIE  Private 

Tower    Hill,    111.  Co.    H.,    130    Inf.,   30   Div. 

Enl.  Co.  H,  Shelbyville;  sent  to  C.  Logan,  Oct.  9,  1917;  sent 
overseas  May  15,  1918;  served  through  with  Co.  H:  after  ar- 
mistice trfd.  to  Battalion  Hqs.  as  orderly.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May 
30. 

BUZZARD,  MARY  Cowden,   111. 

Served  as  nurse  overseas  in  1917-18;  at  Base  Hosp.  No.  66, 
close  to  Paris. 

BESING,   EMIL  2d   Cl.  Carpenter  M. 

Stewardson,   111.  U.    S.   Navy 

Enl.  Dec.  10,  1917,  at  Peoria,  111.;  U.  S.  Navy;  went  to  France 
June  30,  1918.  Dis.  at  Great  Lakes  July  31,  1919. 

BALL,  GEORGE  E.  Stewardson,   III. 

BANNING,   HOMER  E.                                                                Private 

Cowden,    111.  40th   Infantry 

Enl.  Shelbyville  Sept.  5th ;  sent  Camp  Custer  and  served  with 
40th  Infantry. 

BARDING,  THOMAS  F.  Herrick,   111. 

Enl.   Shelbyville   Sept.    5th;    sent   to   Camp   Custer. 
BELL,    WM.    R.  Windsor,    111. 

BLAND,  GENE  Findlay,   111. 

Enl.  summer  of  1918  in  Coast  Artillery;  sent  Jefferson  Bar- 
racks. Dis.  from  there  Dec.,  1918. 


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BOBLETT,   DAN    P. 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  June  27,   1918:  sent  C.  Taylor. 

BIRLEY,   EARNEST  Moweaqua,   III. 

Served  in    Navy   during  war. 

BIRLEY,    EARL  Moweaqua,    111. 
Served  in   Navy   during  war. 

BINGAMAN,   ALFRED  Mode,    111. 

CLARK,    GLEN,  Moweaqua,    111. 

Enl.    Peoria    Nov.,    1917;    Navy;    in  training    at    Great    Lakes; 

clerical    work    in    Admn.    Building.  Dis.    in    Sept.,    1919;    one 

brother  in  service,  Horace  J.  Clark;  sons  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
Clark  of  Moweaqua. 


CARTER,  JOHN   E. 


Gays,   111. 


CLARK,    WILLIAM    A.  Private 

Moweaqua,    111.  Co.    D,    llth   Regt.    Marines 

Laborer;  born  Feb.  17,  1899;  mother,  Mrs.  G.  R.  Bridgman, 
Moweaqua;  enl.  Akron,  Ohio,  July  27,  1918;  Marines;  assigned 
Co.  D,  llth  Regt.,  Paris  Island,  S.  C. ;  sailed  Sept.  29;  trained 
as  rifleman.  Dis.  at  Hampton  Roads,  Va.,  Aug.  11,  1919. 


CLOSSER,  ARTHUR  BLISS 
Enl.   through   the    Local    Board. 
CAIN,  FRED  N. 


Tower  Hill,  111. 

Windsor,   111. 
U.  S.  Navy 


COCHRAN,  VIRGIL 

Cowden,    III. 

Enl.    through    Local    Board    at    Decatur   July    25,    1918;    served 

through  the  war  in  the   Navy ;   son   D.   E.  Cochran,   Cowden. 

COFFMAN,   VERNA   HOWARD  1st   Cl.    Private 

Moweaqua,   111.  Dental   Assistant 

Enl.  Shelbyville,  III.,  Jan.  23,  1918.  Dis.  June  1,  1919,  at  El- 
lington Aviation  Field,  Houston,  Texas ;  dental  assistant,  First 
Class  Private. 


COMERFORD,  VINCENT 
Pana,   III. 

COOLEY,  JOHN   W. 
CORRINGTON,    PAUL 


307  Field  Art 

Moweaqua,    111. 
Moweaqua,    III. 


COSART,    LEONARD   T.  Fireman    1st   Cl. 

Cowden,    III.  U.   S.    Navy 

Enl.  at  Peoria,  July  30,  1918;  promoted  to  Fireman  First  Class; 
served  on  Atlantic  Ocean  until  Sept.  23,  1919;  honorably  dis- 
charged at  N.  Y.  Sept.  23,  1919,  grade  of  Fireman  First  Class. 

Moweaqua,    111. 


CRAVEN,    FRANK 
CRAYS,  CURTIS  R. 

CUNDIFF,  J.  HENRY 
Enl.   through   Local   Board. 

KOONTZ,  ALTA 
KIDWELL,    LEON 


Windsor,  III. 

Pana,  III. 

Stewardson,  111. 

Shelbyville,  111. 


KRUGER,   EDWARD  A.  1st  Class   Private 

Stewardson,    111.  Batt.    F,    18   F.   A..   3   Div. 

Born  Oct.  9,  1896,  Stewardson;  farmer;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
August  Kruger,  Stewardson;  enl.  Mattoon  May  17,  1917;  as- 
signed Batt.  F,  18  F.  A.,  3  Div.;  trained  Jeff.  Bks.  and  Ft. 
Bliss  10  mos. ;  sailed  Hoboken  April,  1918;  trained  Genre, 
France;  under  fire  3J4  mos.;  active  service  Chateau  Thierry, 
St.  Mihiel,  Meuse-Argonne ;  regiment  cited,  Croix  de  Guerre ; 
First  Army  Defense  Sector  Sept.  1-Nov.  11,  1918;  Army  of 
Occupation  Dec.  S,  1918-Aug.  5,  1919.  Dis.  C.  Grant  Aug.  27, 
1919;  two  brothers  in  service. 

MCDONALD,  HARRY  c.  Private 

Lakewood,  111.  45  Co.  12  Bn.,  160  D.  B. 

Enl.  Sept.  5,  1918,  Shelbyville;  assigned  45th  Co.,  12  Bn.,  160 
D.  B.,  Camp  Custer,  Mich. ;  trfd.  29  Co,  1st  Labor  Regt.  Rec. 
Group  and  Service  Co.  No.  5,  Camp  Johnston,  Fla.  Dis.  Jan. 
3,  1919,  Camp  Taylor,  Ky. 

McGTLLIGAN,  STANLEY  P.  First  Lieut. 

Urbana,   111.  Dental   Corps 

Dentist;  born  July  15,  1888;  son  late  John  McGilligan  ;  trained 
7  weeks  in  M.  O.  T.  C.,  Greenleaf,  Ga.,  and  commissioned  fall 
of  1917  as  1st  Lieut,  Dental  Corps,  and  sent  to  McPherson, 
Ga. ;  trfd.  Mar.  3,  1919,  Walter  Reed  Hosp.,  then  to  Ft.  Me- 
Henry,  and  Dis.  there  Apr.  22,  1919. 

McGRATH,  JOHN   D.  Private 

Moweaqua,    111.  Depot   Brigade   45 

Born  July  24,  1890,  Moweaqua,  111. ;  son  of  John  and  Margaret 
McGrath,  Moweaqua;  farmer;  enl.  Sept.  6,  1918,  Shelbyville; 
assigned  to  161  D.  B.,  45th  Co.,  Camp  Custer;  trfd.  to  12th 
Co.,  Inf.  Rep.;  Non-Corn.  School  at  Camp  Grant  Sept.  18;  on 
Dec.  6  trfd.  to  Headquarters  Convalescent  Center,  personnel 
office.  Dis.  May  10,  1919,  C.  Grant. 

WELCH,  JAMES  A.  Sigel,  111. 

Knl.   Shelbyville  June  28,    1918,  and   sent   to   Camp  Taylor. 


WHITE,  ERMON  L.  Tower  Hill,  111. 

Son  R.  A.  White,  Tower  Hill;  enl.  at  age  of  17,  on  July  6, 
1917.  Dis.  fall  of  1919. 

WILEY,  JOYCE  M.  Private 

Moweaqua,    111.  Field   Evac.    No.   5 

Born  Sept.  18,  1891,  at  Brook,  Ind. ;  son  Jesse  H.  Wiley  of 
Moweaqua;  barber;  enl.  Jan.  29,  1918,  Springfield;  assigned 
Hq.  Co.  Hosp.  Bat.  No.  14,  Camp  Greenleaf;  trfd.  Mar.  4 
to  Field  Evac.  No.  5,  C.  Crane;  in  training  3  mo.;  sailed  from 
Iloboken  May  10,  1918;  transport  Caserta ;  landed  Brest  May 
23,  1918;  Field  Evacuation,  Crepey,  Chateau  Thierry,  Soissons, 
Champagne,  Flanders  fronts ;  Stretcher  Bearer.  Dis.  C.  Grant 
March  20,  1919. 

WILLIAMS,   RICHARD  Strasburg,   III. 

In   service   overseas. 

WIREY,    WILLIS 

Herrick,  111.  84  Division 

Served   in   84th    Division   overseas. 

WOOTERS,  HERBERT  S.  2d  Lieut. 

Moweaqua,  111.  V.   C.    15   Div.  Trains  Vet.   Unit 

Enl.  Chicago,  111.,  June  11,  1917;  called  to  report  at  Ft.  Ogle- 
thorpe,  Ga.,  June  20,  1918;  trfd.  to  Camp  Logan,  Texas,  Sept. 
3.  Dis.  C.  Logan  Jan.  22,  1919. 

WORKMAN,   CHARLES   O.  Corporal 

Moweaqua,   111.  Co.   A.   308  M.   G.,   78   Div. 

Born  July  22,  1887,  Christian  Co.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  B. 
Workman,  Moweaqua;  poultry  dealer;  enl.  May  26,  1918, 
Shelbyville;  sent  to  Camp  Shelby:  assigned  Co.  A,  308  M.  G., 
78  Div. ;  made  Corporal ;  in  training  4  mos. ;  sailed  from  N.  Y. 
Oct.  6,  1918;  transport  Galendia ;  landed  Liverpool  Oct.  17, 
1918;  in  training  at  Nanties.  Dis.  C.  Grant  May  22,  1919; 
one  brother  in  service. 


WRIGHT,   ROBERT 


Shumway,   111. 


MAKES  LONG  TRIP  TO  SERVE 

To  Verne  Frazee  of  Moweaqua  perhaps  belongs 
the  distinction  of  having  made  the  longest  trip 
for  the  purpose  of  getting  into  military  service,  of 
any  Shelby  County  lad.  Frazee  was  in  India  when 
summoned  by  the  Shelby  County  Exemption 
Board.  He  was  called  for  the  last  contingent  for 
which  the  war  department  made  requisition,  the  call 
that  later  was  cancelled  because  of  the  armistice. 
Before  learning  of  the  cancellation,  however,  young 
Frazee  sailed  for  home,  and  eventually  arrived  there, 
only  to  be  officially  informed  that  his  services  would 
not  be  required.  He  is  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 

Oscar  Frazee  of  Moweaqua. 


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STRASBURG  LEGIONNAIRES 


The  American   Legion 

( By  W.   E.   Rominger) 


The  American  Legion  today  is  an  established  fact. 
It  is  the  concrete  realization  of  "some  sort  of  organ- 
ization after  the  war."  which  was  talked  of  in  every 
cantonment  in  America,  on  board  every  ship  in  the 
navy  and  in  every  unit  in  the  A.  E.  E.  It  is  the  crys- 
tallization of  the  wish  of  every  soldier,  sailor  and 
marine  to  organize  after  the  war.  "In  union  there  is 
strength."  and  in  this  particular  union  will  be  found 
the  bulwark  of  Americanism. 

The  Legion  has  grown  and  its  spirit  has  spread 
because  it  is  worthy.  In  every  test  at  the  outset  it 
repelled  selfishness,  narrowness,  partisanship  and 
clung  to  the  underlying  theme — democracy.  It  is  the 
peace-born  offspring  of  our  citizen  army.  Devoted 
to  honest  and  unselfish  national  service,  it  should  ac- 
complish much  for  the  good  of  the  country. 

THE  LEGION— ITS  OBJECT 

"For  God  and  Country,  we  associate  ourselves  together  for 
the  following  purposes : 

"To  uphold  and  defend  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States 
of  America;  to  maintain  law  and  order;  to  foster  and  perpetuate 
a  one  hundred  per  cent.  Americanism ;  to  preserve  the  memo- 
ries and  incidents  of  our  association  in  the  Great  War;  to  incul- 
clate  a  sense  of  individual  obligation  to  the  community,  state, 
and  nation ;  to  combat  the  autocracy  of  both  the  classes  and 
the  masses ;  to  make  right  the  master  of  might ;  to  promote 
peace  and  good  will  on  earth ;  to  safeguard  and  transmit  to 
posterity  the  principles  of  justice,  freedom  and  democracy ;  to 
consecrate  and  sanctify  our  comradeship  by  our  devotion  to 
mutual  helpfulness." 

This  organization  shall  include  the  following  definite  pur- 
poses: 

1.  To  inculcate  the  duty  and  obligation  of  citizenship. 

2.  To  preserve  the  history   and   incidents  of   our  participa- 
tion in  this  war. 

3.  To  cement  the  ties  of  comradeship   formed  in   service. 

4.  To  protect,  assist  and  promote  the  general  welfare  of  all 
soldiers,   sailors  and  marines  and   those  dependent  upon   them. 

5.  To    encourage    the    maintenance    of    individual    and    na- 
tional  efficiency  to  the  end  that  the  American  people  shall  never 
fail   in   their   obligation    to   humanity. 

6.  To   maintain    the   sacred   doctrine    of   undivided   and   un- 
compromising loyalty   to  every  principle   for  which  the  American 
nation    stands    in    the    belief    that    that    doctrine    should    be    the 
guiding  principle   of  the  everyday   life  of  each   citizen. 

IX  SHELBY  COUNTY 

Shelby  County  war  veterans  were  among  the  first  in  the 
United  States  to  take  definite  steps  toward  forming  a  service 
men's  organization.  On  April  24,  1919,  the  men  who  were  in 
Shelbyville  to  participate  in  the  Victory  Loan  celebration  gath- 
ered at  the  circuit  court  room,  and  elected  Lieutenant  W.  E. 
Rominger  of  Shelbyville  chairman,  and  Sergeant  Cloyd  Wright 
of  Cowden  secretary. 

Already  there  were  a  number  of  organizations  of  veterans 
forming  in  the  country,  and  at  this  meeting  the  men  decided  to 
postpone  affiliation  until  time  could  prove  which  would  be  the 
lasting  organization.  Five  delegates  were  elected  to  attend  the 
first  caucus  of  the  American  Legion,  at  St.  Louis,  May  9,  1919. 
They  were : 

Lieutenant  George   Burnett,   33d    Division. 

Private   Ray   Kingston,   30th   Division. 

Sergeant  Murphy   A.    Herron,  Camp   Taylor,   Ky. 

Corporal  W.  L.  Kelley,  Chemical  Warfare  Division. 

Lieutenant   E.   H.   Faster,  Q.  M.  C. 

Funds  for  the  trip  were  furnished  by   the  Shelbyville   Com- 

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mercial  Club.  The  county  was  represented  in  the  St.  Louis 
Caucus  by  Private  Ray  Kingston,  Lieutenant  Burnett,  Corporal 
Kelley  and  Lieutenant  Rominger.  Corporal  Kelley  later  was 
named  district  organizer,  having  several  counties  in  Central  Illi- 
nois. Lieutenant  Rominger,  with  Burnett  and  Kingston  as  as- 
sistants, was  detailed  to  organize  Shelby  County. 

On  July   13  Organizer  Kelley  called  a  meeting  of  the  service 
men  of  Shelbyville,  and  in  this  and   following  meetings 

ROY  VAXDERPOOL  POST  NO.  81,  AMERICAN'  LEGION, 
was  formed,  with  Lieutenant  Howard  Bridges  as  chairman  and 
Lieutenant  W.  E.  Rominger  as  secretary.  ^  How  this  post  has 
prospered  is  shown  by  the  membership.  Following  ts  a  roster 
of  the  members  in  the  order  in  which  they  joined : 


Monroe,    H.    E. 

Klauser,  Wm. 

Rominger,   W.    E. 

Ilulick,  C.  H. 

Ruff,  H.  L. 

Kelley,  W.  L. 

Johnson,  Roy  W. 

Kensil,  John  T. 

Herron,   Murphy  A. 

Briggs,  Clyde 

Thompson,  Wm. 

Frazer,   Bernard 

Wilburn,  John 

Pate,    Clyde 

Fought,   Jos.   W. 

Parish,   Ben   F. 

Auld,  F.  P. 

Miner,   L.  W. 

Strohl,  Roy 

Wortman,  Hugh 

Ruch,  Lucian 

Fisher,  Earl 

Hayward,   Truman 

Lamb,  Orville 

Parker,  Torn   H. 

Price,  James 

Stretch,  J.  Leonard 

Stretch,  Geo. 

Hudson,  Andy  M. 

Bridges,  Howard  R. 

Martin,   Fred 

Thompson,  Theodore 

Aichele,   Wm.   F. 

Worley,   Raymond 

Sills,   Roy 

Moberly,   Grider 

Eiler,   Verner 

Miller,  Lloyd  O. 

Bales,   Glen,   Pascola,   Mo. 

Davis,  Browning 

Douthit,  Everett 

Jackson,    Lewis   Albert 

Kelley,  Leo 

Gordon,   Lawrence 

Gordon,  Charlie  H. 

Nees,  Wm. 

Kingston,  Ray 

Lauer,   C.   F. 

Wade.  Orrie  R. 

Cox,  Arthur 

Hite,  B.  S. 

Kimmel,  Clarence  E. 

Skidmore,   EH  W. 

Barker,  Dewey 

White,  W.  L. 

Andes,  Chas. 

Miller,  J.    Glen 

Whitaker,   Baird 

Pike,  Hubert 

Barton,  Ray 


Goddard,  II.  A.,  Windsor 

Courtright,    Harry 

Westervelt,  Floyd,  New  York 

Neal,    Frank 

Hudson,    Andrew    P. 

Twiss,  Chas.  L. 

Osbpriie,  H.   P.,  Chicago 

Davis,  Sam  C.,   Beecher  City 

Powell,  J.  Ray 

Henry,  Ross 

Garrett,    Otto,    Findlay 

Green,  Dr.  J.  W.,  Tower  Hill 

Flowers,    Delbert 

Klauser,   Arthur 

Dildine.    Thurman 

Mose,    Raymond   F. 

Johnson,  Jas.   B. 

Shaw,   Harry 

Renner,  Clarence  S.,  Westervelt 

Price,    Earl 

Frazier,  Rennie 

Hudson,   Nelson 

Sprague,   Ralph 

Westenhaver,  Marion 

Dearing,  B.  F.,  San  Francisco 

Westenhaver,   Burley 

Eddy,  Wm.  C. 

Austin,    Glen 

Fleming,   Bruce 

Deweese,   Frank 

Wallace,  Norman 

Cutler,   Lester 

Smith,    A.    Earl 

Wilson,  John  W. 

SHfer,  Thos.  J. 

Welch,   Walter  O. 

Becker,   Milton  A. 

Burnett,    Wm. 

Barrett,   Chas.,   Tower   Hill 

Salmons,  Geo.  A. 

Toothman,   Clay 

Hagan,  Chester  C. 

Terry,  Gaylord 

Shoatf,    Earl 

McMullin,    Foster 

McCoy,  John  A. 

Meinecke,    Windsor    A. 

Tull,   Tom 

Lovins,    Lawrence 

Johnson,    Glen 

Soland,  Clarence,  Windsor 

Frizzell,    Frank,   Windsor 

Benefiel,    Clarence 

Summers,  Clarence  H. 

Sullivan,  John 

Calvert,   William,    Westervelt 

Griffith,   George   N.,   Altamont 

Yakey,   James   M. 

Bivins,   Sidney   V. 

Tallman,  J.  Leverett 


1'ietz,   John 

Stockdale,  John 

Malone,  John  J. 

Kuckreigel,    Herbert 

I  >  ail  lie,   Hugh   R.,  Champaign 

Jackson.    Sam 

Hill,  Harry  Lance 

Waggoner,  Carl   N. 

Boswell,  Cedric  II. 

Gilleland,    Art 

Thompson,    Henry 

Flanders.    Ralph    K. 

Dickinson,    Harland 

Allen,    Elmer 

Court  right,    Vance 

Kull.    Paul 

Metzger,  John 

Skaggs,  Fred 

Burnett,   George 

Moon,   James  B. 

Hudson,    Elmer   C. 

Biggs,    Floyd 

Price,   Ed 

Perryman,  Carlos 

Tallman,   Emery 

Schwenker,    Roy 

Risser.   Susa 

Williams,   George 

Stucker,  William 

Moore.   Loren    B. 

Freyharger,   Floyd 

Klauser,  Chas.  C. 

Hauler,    Lee 

Sprague,  Orville  J. 

Laugel,   Frank   J. 

Cordray,  Guy 

Worley,  Edmund 

King,  Arthur 

Hawk,    Elmer 


Coffman,  Othie   E. 
Stanslu'rry,   Earl 
Mlackstone,  Gay 
Smith,  Wm.  H. 
Storm,  Clair 
Helton,  Bert  H. 
Brown,  F,  J. 

Tabhert,    Wallace   O.,    Herborn 
Mueller,   Wm.,    Strasburg 
llowman,    Wm.    R.,   Windsor 
Hood.   Harry   A.,  Windsor 
Jester,    Howard    W.,   Tower    Hill 
Johnson,    Edler  E.,  Trowbridge 
Carpenter,  Walter  S.,  Tower  Hill 
Cartmell,  Samuel  H.,  Tower  Hill 
Higler,  Walter  G.,  Slgel 
Lumpp,  Henry,  Findlay 
Smith,  O.  S.,  Tower  Hill 
Metzger,   O.   C.,    Pana 
Crouch,  Lester,  Findlay 
Eversole,    Orville 
Blancett,    Millard 
Shutt.   Verl    X. 
Roberts.    Michael 
Woodworth,  Ray,  Decatur 
Shipley,  Otto   E.,   Lakewood 
Baptist,   Geo.  T. 
Eyey,  Chas.  F.,  Tower  Hill 
Nichols,  Earl  W.,  Oconee 
Denier,    Raymond,    Westervelt 
Bond,  Frank  L. 
Reeder,   Ernest  B.,  Tower  Hill 
Wallace,   Wendell,  Windsor 
Moberly.    Lawrence,   Windsor 
Christy,   Floyd   A.,   Cowden 
Gregory,    Dr.    Chas.    S.,    Findlay 
Cosart,    Ernest   II.,    Cowden 
Furr,  George  F.— died  12-30-' 19 
Morgan,  Sidney,  Tower  Hill 

THE  PERMANENT  OFFICERS 

Commander — William  Klauser. 
Vice-Commander — Bruce  Fleming. 
Adjutant — J.  Glen  Miller. 
Chaplain — Wm.  F.  Aichele. 
Historian — Wm.  E.  Rominger. 
Sergeant-at-Arms — George  Burnett. 

GEORGE  FRANKLIN  FURR 

George  Franklin  Furr  was  the  first  member  of  Roy  Yander- 
pool  Post,  American  Legion,  to  die.  He  passed  away  Tuesday, 
Dec.  30,  1919,  after  a  period  of  decline  covering  several  weeks. 
He  was  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Furr,  and  a  native  of 
Rose  township.  Shelby  county,  where  he  was  born  Sept.  9,  1894. 
He  is  survived  by  his  parents,  five  brothers  and  three  sisters. 

In  September,  1917,  he  went  to  Camp  Taylor,  Ky.,  for  mili- 
tary training,  then  was  transferred  to  Camp  Pike,  Ark.,  where 
he  stayed  until  he  was  ordered  across  seas.  He  was  one  of  seven 
of  his  company  who  were  not  wounded  when  the  Hindenburg 
line  was  broken,  and  was  one  of  34  of  the  company  who  returned 
from  that  engagement.  He  was  chosen  as  a  member  of  Persh- 
ing's  Composite  regiment. 

The  funeral  of  Comrade  Furr  was  held  from  the  Methodist 
church  in  Shelby ville,  Dec.  31.  The  pallbearers,  color  bearer, 
bugler  and  firing  squad  were  from  Roy  Yanderpool  Post,  and 
were  in  uniform.  The  Post  attended  in  a  body.  Burial  was  in 
Glen  wood  cemetery. 


AT  MOWEAQUA 

Moweaqua  has  the  Remann  H.  Harlan  Post, 
American  Legion,  which  was  organized  in  October, 
1919.  by  County  Organizer  W.  E.  Rominger  of  Shel- 
byville.  The  Post  was  named  for  Remann  H.  Har- 
lan, who  died  from  disease  contracted  while  in  the 
army. 

Dr.  Xornian  S.  Starr  was  elected  temporary  chair- 
man, and  Haldon  B.  Ayars  was  elected  temporary 
secretary.  Permanent  officers,  elected  in  Xovember, 
are  as  follows: 

Post  Commander — Dr.  X.  S.  Starr. 

Vice  Commander — Ira  Adams. 

Adjutant — Earl  Brown. 

Treasurer — Haldon   B.   Ayars. 

Board  of  Directors — Dr.  H.  S.  Wooters,  Thomas 
Page  and  Joyce  Wiley. 

Interest  was  keen  from  the  start,  and  increased 
with  the  holding  of  meetings.  On  Nov.  11  the  Post 


celebrated  the  signing  of  the  armistice,  and  from 
the  receipts  from  a  supper,  a  football  game  and  other 
entertainment,  cleared  $500  for  the  treasury  of  the 
Post. 

The  amount  cleared  made  it  possible  to  open 
club  rooms,  which  consist  of  reading  room,  billiard, 
pool  and  card  room,  and  athletic  .  room.  The  club 
rooms  are  open  at  all  times  to  members  of  tflie 
Legion,  a  hearty  invitation  being  extended  to  all 
visiting  members. 

Already  the  membership  has  reached  nearly  100. 
and  the  roster  of  members  follows: 


Adams,   Chas.    L. 
Adams,   Ibra  A. 
Adams,   Waldon   Ralph 
Adams.   Glen 
Adamson,   Glen   S. 
Ayars,   Buck   Haldon 
Marbre,    Horace   Oscar 
Bethards,  Floyd  Chester 
Birley,    Joseph 
IJoyer,  F.   Dale 
Bridgman,  Howard 
Hrookshire,    Atwell    II. 
Brown,    Earl 
Campbell,  L.  Robert 
Cassidy,   Arthur 
Cheatham,    Karl    E. 
Clark,   Abner  William 
Clifford,    Hamelton 
Coburn,    Dalton    Dallas 
Coffman,  Vern  M. 
Corrington,   Lester   Paul 
Daughtry,   William  J. 
Faliski,  Frank 
Gilmore,  Joseph  Charles 
Gregory,    Lloyd 
Gregory,  Earl  Richard 
Gregory,    Wallace 
Gregory,   Edward  Thomas 
Gregory,    Lawrence 
Green,  Glenn  Melvin 
Grooms,  Haynie  Floyd 
Hedges,  Earl  James 
Hejtmeyer,  Oliver   Benjamin 
Heitmeyer,    E.   Lawrence 
Hill,    David   B. 
Hudson,    Edward    Jamie 
Hudson,   S.   Cecil 
Jackson,  A.   Willie 
Jesse,  Merle 
Johnson,  A.  Wheeler 
Kinney,  William 
Long,  R.  Jesse 
Lowe,    Wayne 
McGraft,    Dan 
McGee,    Wendel    Roger 
Me  In  tyre,    Frank 


McKinney,  J.    Emry 
McKinney,    Claude   A. 
McClelland,    Everett   B. 
Moss,    Xelson   W. 
Xoling,    Raymond    W. 
Xoling,   Richard 
Ohl,    Herman 
Page,  Tom 
Page,    James    A. 
Partelow,   Ivan 
Phelan,   Lemar  George 
Port  wood,    Steven   R. 
Potsick,    Andy 
Poole,   Hampton    Charles 
Reynolds,   Amos 
Riley,    Ellsworth   Harry 
Richardson,    Roy 
Robbins,   Deloss  A. 
Roby,    Frank 
Roby,  James 
Rose,   Homer 
Segloski,    Frank 
Sheppard,  Jasper  C. 
Sigler,    George 
Simpson,  John   A. 
Simpson,   Luther  F. 
Snyder,  Glen 
Stabb,   Albert   Melvin 
Stabb,  Frank  E.     ' 
Starr,  Smith  X'orman 
Stivison,   William   Gail 
Stombaugh,  Harley 
Stringer,  Harry  James 
Stroh,  Edward  Paul 
Tolly,   Cornelius   Glenn 
Weakly,  Charles  Ted 
Wempen,   Ray 
West,  Sam 
Wetzel,   Zanta   Bane 
Wetzel,  Gail 
Wiley,   Joice 
Wilkinson,    Ernest 
Wilson,   Anson 
Workman,  Chas.  O. 
Wooters.   Herbert 


AT  STRASBURG 

The  Liberty  Post  of  the  American  Legion  was 
organized  in  Strasburg  Oct.  11,  1919.  Harley  Gill 
was  sent  as  a  delegate  to  the  state  convention  in 
Peoria.  The  officers  and  members  of  the  Strasburg 
Liberty  Post  of  the  American  Legion  are  as  follows: 

President — Edwin  H.  Faster. 

Secretary  and  Treasurer — William  J.  Hellman. 


Ilarley  Gill 
Henry    Popendieker 
Charles   Wilson 
Fred   Popendieker 
Charles  O.   T'hrockmorton 
Charles  R.  Rosine 
George  E.  Kull 
Martin    Mueller 
Martin   Tiemann 
Edward    Doeding 
Nelson   E.   Ruff 
Herman    F.   Doehring 
Martin    Nippe 
Theodore  Von  Rehren 
Arthur  Vnruh 


Members 

Charles  D.  Williams 
Glen  B.  Waymire 
Edwin  H.   Ruwe 
Albin    A.    Foelsing 
Lawrence   Kendall 
Martin  G.  Ulmer 
Gustave  H.  Cress 
Edward  H.  Ostermeier 
Phillip  IT.  Tiemann 
Otto  G.  Arnold 
Edward  J.  Hartman 
Arthur  G.  Gritzmaker 
Itruce   Curry 
Chris   M.   Kircher 
L    Harvey   Friesner 
Carl   H.   Gatchell 


Posts  of  the  American   Legion  are  in  process  of 
organization    at    Findlay    and    Oconee    and   "several 

other  Shelby  county  communities. 


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Beem 


Metzger 


Roberts 


Fritz 
Whaley 


Rollins 


Uodenberger  Grays 


Scovil 


Cook 


Sayers 


Student   Army  Training   Corps 


Thirty-one  boys  of  Shelby  county,  potential  sol- 
diers and  sailors,  were  enlisted  in  the  Student  Army 
Training  Corps  established  by  the  government  to  fit 
the  younger  men  of  the  nation  to  step  into  the  active 
fighting  ranks  as  they  attained  age  and  need  for 
them  arose. 

Most  of  the  boys  were  inducted  into  the  S.  A. 
T.  C.  through  the  Shelby  County  Local  Board,  and 
went  into  student  camps  established  at  Institutions 
of  learning  in  Illinois,  while  a  few  entered  camps  in 
other  states,  where  they  took  the  particular  course 
which  appealed  to  them. 

The  names  of  the  Shelby  county  lads,  together 
with  the  names  given  by  them  as  nearest  relatives 
and  the  records  of  such  as  responded  to  the  request 
of  the  Shelby  County  War  Historians  for  such  data, 
are  as  follows: 

BAUM,  WM.  WELLS,  Shelbyville ;  first  lieutenant;  born  Mil- 
waukee, Wis.,  May  6,  1899:  son  Wm.  Baum,  Shelbyville; 
enl.  Oct.  1,  1918,  at  St.  Louis,  Inf.;  assigned  to  Washington 
•Univ.  Med.  School;  attended  O.  T.  C.  Fort  Sheridan;  first 
lieutenant  Oct.  15;  honorably  dis.  December  16.  1918;  now 
at  Washington  Univ.,  St.  Louis. 

BEEM,  ARNOLD  HUMPHRIS,  Shelbyville;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
C.  E.  Beem,  Shelbyville;  in  training  at  Indiana  Dental 
College,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

BRADEX,  CHARLES  EUGENE,  Findlay ;  sergeant;  born  at 
Findlay,  111.,  March  6,  1898;  son  G.  E.  Braden  and  wife; 
farmer;  enl.  Oct.  1,  1918,  Decatur,  111.;  in  training  three 
months  at  Camp  Millikin,  Decatur. 

CRAVS,  DWIGHT,  formerly  of  Windsor,  now  of  East  Chicago, 
Ind. ;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  C.  Crays. 

DAVIES,  RAYMOND   OLIVER,  Windsor.   111. 

DUNSCOMB,  GEORGE  BAKER,  Windsor,  111.;  born  Wind- 
sor March  3,  1899,  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Geo.  E.  Dunscomb, 
Windsor;  enl.  Oct.  1,  1918,  at  Champaign,  where  he  was  a 
student  in  the  U.  of.  I.;  assigned  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Cham- 
paign ;  trained  there  three  months  in  preparation  for  En- 
gineering Officers  School ;  was  in  hospital  with  influenza ; 
honorably  dis.  Dec.  21.  1918. 

EVERSOLE,  EDGAR  BENNETT,  Westervelt,  111.;  born 
Westervelt  Feb.  8,  1898,  son  Grant  and  Mattie  Eversole. 
Westervelt;  farmer;  enl.  Octi  IS,  1918,  Decatur.  111.;  in 
training  Camp  Millikin  two  months,  five  days ;  honorably 
dis.  Dec.  20,  1918. 

FRITTS,  EDWIN,  Shelbyville;  son  J.  W.  and  Bessie  Susan 
Fritts;  enl.  Urbana,  111.,  Sept.  20,  1918;  assigned  to  Co. 
4  at  U.  of  I.;  in  training  three  months;  honorably  dis. 
Dec.  21,  1918. 

FRITTS,  J.  RALPH,  Shelbyville;  son  .T.  W.  and  Bessie 
Susan  Fritts,  Shelbyville,  111. ;  born  Sept.  4.  1899,  at  Cow- 
den,  111.;  enl.  Urbana,  Sept.  20,  1918;  assigned  to  Co.  4 
at  U,  of  I.;  in  training  three  mos.  ;  honorably  dis.  Dec.  21, 
1918. 


FUGUA,  CLARENCE  NATHON,  Bethany,  111;  nearest  rel- 
ative William  Fugua,  Bethany,  111.,  R.  F.  D.  2. 

GAMMILL,  LAWRENCE,  Gays,  111;  corporal;  born  at  Gays, 
Jan.  7.  1899,  son  Mack  and  Olive  Gammill,  Gays;  enl.  at 
U.  of  I.  Oct.  7,  1918;  assigned  to  aviation  corps;  honorably 
dis.  Dec.  21,  1918;  now  emp.  in  office  at  Staley's  De- 
catur, 111. 

HILSABACK,  HUGH  RUDOLPH,  Windsor,  111.;  born  at 
Windsor,  Dec.  24,  1885;  was  school  teacher  and  senior  stu- 
dent in  E.  I.  S.  N.  School,  at  Charleston:  enl.  Oct.  15,  De- 
catur; assigned  to  S.  A.  T.  C.  at  Millikin  Univ.;  in  train- 
ing three  mos.;  honorably  dis.  Dec.  20,  1918;  now  teach- 
ing ;  one  brother  in  service. 

HUDSON,  RALPH  KARL,  Moweaqua,  111.;  nearest  relative, 
Viola  Hudson,  Moweaqua. 

JARVIS,  RALPH  U.,  Moweaqua,  111.;  born  Moweaqua,  Sept. 
6,  1900,  son  T.  T.  and  Olive  Tarvis,  Moweaqua;  was  boss 
A.  D.  T.  oper. ;  enl.  Sept.  23,  1918;  assigned  to  Camp  Mil- 
likin, Decatur;  training  three  months  for  tank  corps;  in 
hospital,  influenza;  honorably  dis.  Dec.  21,  1918. 

JONES,  HAROLD  VERNON,  Cowden,  111.;  born  June  13, 
1899;  son  Jas.  W.  and  Luella  M.  Jones,  Cowden;  was  asst. 
pharmacist;  enl.  Chicago  Oct.  23,  1918;  assigned  to  S.  A. 
T.  C.  med.  section  U.  of  I.,  Chicago,  Co.  1  ;  honorably  dis. 
there  Dec.  11,  1918;  now  student  U.  of  I.  School  of  Phar- 
macy, Chicago. 

LEAF,  HAROLD  F.,  Moweaqua,  111. ;  nearest  relative  Francis 
Leaf,  Moweaqua;  enl.  Decatur  Oct.  15,  1918;  assigned  to 
Camp  Millikin;  honorably  dis.  Dec.  20,  1918. 

LUMPP,   HERMAN    C.,    Findlay,    111.;    private;    born   June   26, 

1898,  Shelbyville,  111.;  son  Andrew  J.  and  Viola  B.   Lumpp ; 
was    student;    enl.    Indianapolis,    Ind.,    Oct.    14,    1918,    S.   A. 
T.    C.,    Indiana    Dental    College ;    dis.    at    Indianapolis    Dec. 
14,   1918. 

METZLER,  LELAND,  Shelbyville,  111.;  nearest  relative,  Mrs. 
H.  D.  Metzler,  Shelbyville. 

NALBACH,  JOHN  R.,  Moweaqua;  born  Aug.  4,  1899;  son 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nicholas  Nalbach,  Moweaqua ;  enl.  Sept.  25, 
1918,  Akron,  O.,  in  S.  A.  T.  C..  Univ.  of  Akron ;  trained 
three  months;  dis.  Dec.  25,  1918. 

NICHOLS,  NOBLE  DEWEY,  Cowden.  III.;  nearest  relative, 
John  Nichols,  Cowden. 

ROBERTS,  DEWEY,  Lakewood,  111.;  son  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  P. 
Roberts;  enl.  S.  A.  T.  C.,  U.  of  I.,  Urbana,  111. 

RODENBERGER,  RALPTH,  Windsor,  111.;  student;  son  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  M.  M.  Rodenberger;  enl.  Oct.  26,  1918,  Decatur; 
assigned  to  S.  A.  T.  C.  at  Millikin  University ;  honorably 
dis.  Dec.  20,  1918. 

ROLLINS,    PAUL    D.,    Moweaqua,    111. ;    born    there    Sept.    3, 

1899,  son    Mr.   and    Mrs.    G.    W.    Rollins;    student    I.   S.    N. 
Univ.,   Normal,   111.;   enl.   Fort   Sheridan   Aug.    11,    1918;   as- 
signed to  Co.   11,  S.  A.  T.  C.  ;  trfd.  A   Co.,   Millikin  Univ., 
Decatur,   Sept.   28 ;  prom.  Sgt.,   Oct.    1  ;   honorably  dis.   Dec. 
21,    1918. 


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Jarvis 


Hraden 


Eversole 


Wilson 


Dunscomb 


Wakefield 


Gammill 


Hilsabeck 


Lufflpp 


SAVERS,  JOHN"  EUGEXE,  Cowden,  111.;  nearest  relative, 
Porter  M.  Sayers,  Cowden. 

SCOVIL,  HOMER  SYDNEY,  Cowden,  111.;  nearest  relative, 
S.  S.  Scovil,  Cowden. 

SNYDER,  RALPH  KENNETH,  Moweaqua,  111.;  nearest 
relative,  K.  R.  Snyder,  Moweaqua,  111. 

TOOTHMAN,  F.nWIX  C.,  Washington,  n.  C. ;  born  March 
29,  1900,  Shelby  ville;  stenographer:  son  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Austin  Toothman,  Shelbyville ;  enl.  (let.  19,  1918;  assigned 
Co.  D,  S.  A.  T.  C.  Via.  Dec.  14,  1918.  One  brother  in 
service. 

TORRENCE,  CALE,  Herrick,  III.;  nearest  relative,  Katie 
Torrence,  Herrick. 

WAKEFIELD,  DEAN  HAMMOND,  Cowden,  111.;  nearest 
relative,  John  Wakefield,  Cowden. 

WHALEY,  GEORGE  WILMER,  Tower  Hill.,  111.;  born  Nov. 
7,  1898,  son  G.  E.  Whaley  ;  enl.  Sept.,  1918;  trained  at  Mil- 
likin  Univ.,  Decatur ;  honorably  dis.  Dec.  20,  1918. 

WILSON,  CARLOS  DOUTHIT,  Shelbyville,  111.;  navy; 
nearest  relative,  Carrie  D.  Wilson,  Shelbyville,  111., 
R.  F.  D.  6. 


THE  MOTHER 

Out  of  the  bitter,  the  sweet; 

Out  of  the  pain,  the  joy; 
Out  of  the  mists,  the  morning  star; 

Out  of  my  travail,  my  boy. 

Out  of  old  flesh,  new  flesh; 

Out  of  old  bone,  new  bone; 
Out  of  my  side,  my  treasure  and  pride; 

My  breast  his  earliest  throne. 

Stiff  in  the  trenches,  and  stark; 

Dead,  'ere  the  battle  was  won; 
For  that  which  is  Right,  for  Love  and  Light. 

Freely  I  gave  my  son. 

After  the  bitter,  the  sweet; 

After  the  pain,  the  joy — 
I  will  not  falter,  nor  flinch,  nor  faint; 

Proudly  I  give  my  boy. 

— "Seranus.' 


WE  THANK  YOU 

In  closing  this  history  of  the  war  work  done  by  Shelby  County  people, 
the  editors  desire  to  express  sincere  thanks  to  the  scores  of  men  and  women 
and  hundreds  of  soldiers  and  sailors,  who  through  their  ready  co-operation 
made  possible  the  compilation  of  the  data  herein  contained.  We  are  in- 
debted for  valuable  assistance  to  too  many  to  make  it  feasible  to  attempt  to 
name  them  here.  At  the  same  time  we  regret  deeply  that  the  natural  diffi- 
dence of  some  service  men  impelled  them  to  refuse  their  records,  necessitat- 
ing our  mentioning  them  only  by  name. 

We  have  sought  to  make  Shelby  County  in  the  World's  War  a  creditable 
work,  and  trust  that  you  will  find  it  in  some  degree  meritorious. 

THE  EDITORS. 


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